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Love love love

Monday, Aug 16th, 2010 by Met Mum | 21 Comments
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Love love love

Grandma

Friday, Jul 23rd, 2010 by Met Mum | 17 Comments
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Every time I picked up the phone to call my grandma during the past months, I dreaded that she’d fall asleep on the phone again, that she’d again confuse names, that her speech again was slurred and that again, I would feel her health and her spirits deteriorating. I found excuses not to visit her [...]

The end of broodiness

Thursday, Jul 8th, 2010 by Met Mum | 42 Comments
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Already as a child I was sure about wanting to become a mother one day. I always had a very distinct wish to become pregnant, give birth, care and love for the fruit of my loins. Even if that would have meant sleeping with my gay best friend or buying some Papa Frost sperm. Aged [...]

Under my umbrella ella ella

Friday, May 21st, 2010 by Met Mum | 12 Comments
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Bouncing to the sounds of Rihanna through the kitchen this morning with little L on my arm, I realised that this was ‘our’ song. We had only started dating when I boarded a plane to go to Stockholm to see the man who should become the love of my life. Big M picked me up [...]

Why walk when you can run?

Friday, May 7th, 2010 by Met Mum | 30 Comments
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We passed a major milestone in the Met Mum household. Little L started walking. Or rather, running… Have a lovely weekend, you all! Why walk when you can run?

Happy Birthday, little L!

Sunday, Apr 11th, 2010 by Met Mum | 14 Comments
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The day you were born was the first day of spring after a long winter with lots of snow. You are the sunshine of our life, even when you are having a rainy day. Happy Birthday, little L!

Where the Iguana lives

Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2010 by Met Mum | 15 Comments
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Long before the French and the English fought over Saint Lucia (‘ownership’ of the island changed 14 times in between them), this beautiful place was called “Where the Iguana lives”. And if the lizards don’t stop drowning themselves in our pool, they might need to rename it to “Where the Iguana dies”. Where the Iguana [...]

In between the years. Or: becoming a grumpy old woman

Wednesday, Dec 30th, 2009 by Met Mum | 27 Comments
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‘Between the years’ is a German expression for the days in between Christmas and the New Year. It nicely describes the feeling of where I am at the moment. We are not completely over and done with Christmas, but neither are we in the midst of it. The same counts for the New Year. Time to sit back and reflect

So this was Christmas

Friday, Dec 18th, 2009 by Met Mum | 13 Comments
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Well, actually it was St. Lucy’s (Lucia) day. But as the whole family will be scattered all over the globe for Christmas, with one brother-in-law with his wife and in-laws in the US and the other one with my in-laws in Switzerland, we decided to bring forward the feasting and feting. So this was Christmas

It’s Yuletide! Or: a recipe for cinnamon stars (Zimtsterne)

Friday, Dec 11th, 2009 by Met Mum | 13 Comments
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Finally, it’s the season of comfort and joy again. Time to go overboard on Christmas decorations, buy presents for family and friends, write Christmas cards and wish lists, sit together around the table and feast (have I mentioned that there will be the whole family sitting around our table this Sunday, hoping to be fed? [...]

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