Friday Five

Hey there, friends!  And Dad – my most loyal reader!  It’s been a hot minute since I’ve sat down here, or at least it feels that way, but looking back, it’s only been a week!  I guess I’ve missed writing here and I feel like I have so much to catch up on, but there […]

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Checking In XVII

Checking In A Spoonful of TLC

Hello and Happy Friday, from Madrid, Spain!  If you’re new around here, I write these Checking In posts just to fill in some random tidbits of information.  I have been writing these types of posts for over 3 years and I love looking back on them!  The above photo was my breakfast for the last […]

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Busy Weekend

weekend in Madrid blog

Last week was one of the busiest weeks that Luis and I have had in a long time.  Actually, I take that back- we ALWAYS have busy weeks in terms of amount of work and amount of time out of the house, but last week was busy not only in terms of workload, but also […]

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First Weekend Back in Madrid

Madrid weekend

Wow, it has been 2.5 months since I have spent a weekend in Madrid….2.5 MONTHS!  That is almost a quarter of a year!  With so much traveling, I have been in and out of Madrid all summer and for the last few weeks, so this was the first weekend where I was in Madrid and […]

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Friday Five: September 2019

Wow, look at me with two posts in one day!  Today has felt very long, like there are enough hours to do everything and then some.  Maybe it’s because people are picking up their bagels later this afternoon, which left my morning wide open.  Anyway, I had time to write a quick post this morning […]

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A Weekend in Munich

visit Dachau

As I sat down to write this post, it occurred to me that I am not sure how to go about writing about our weekend in Munich because of the nature of the type of trip it was.  We were in Munich first and foremost to celebrate the wedding of Alberto, and his bride, Sabrina, […]

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28.

birthday

Today is my 28th birthday.  That is so strange to thing/ say/ type/ experience.  Time moves so quickly (I moved to Spain when I was 24) but also so slowly.  I still remember when I was in preschool – wandering around the playground, picking up rocks, and the time the teacher gave me a huge […]

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Here We Go

moving to spain

Four years ago, I wrote this post while I procrastinated packing for my first year in Spain.  If you read the post, you can read between the lines (or not between the lines- very obviously) that I was nervous and worried and excited about my impending trip to Spain.  That post feels like a long time […]

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5 on a Friday: August 2019

Hello, Hello and Happy Friday!  I want to quickly check in an say hello before signing off for the weekend ahead… not that I have anything big or exciting happening for the weekend, but I like the idea of spending less time on the computer on the weekend and then I’ll be back on Monday […]

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