June 6

Day 21
How is that even possible?? And yet…it’s finally Friday!  As much fun as I’m having, I am ready to go home, and Tuesday seems like an eternity away still.  We keep stopping in random French towns, hopping out for an hour or two to wander around the town square and look at yet another [...]

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June 5

Day 20
I thought it was Friday this morning, but it’s only Thursday.  I am so worn out, and I’m still sick.  At the Mennonite community we went to the church and had lunch outside on a beautiful day–we had some kind of spitzel that was amazing.  Then we had homemade ice cream made from the [...]

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June 2

Day 17
I am sitting on the back steps of a Mennonite home in a tiny village somewhere in France.  The sun is shining, the birds are singing.  I hear the sound of running water from a little waterfall nearby.  The fresh, clean laundry is swinging in the breeze.  All is well.  I can’t imagine a [...]

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Mornings

Between my internship and my nannying with Will, I work 45 hours between Monday and Thursday.  This results in those four days being very full.  In order to accomplish my morning routine, I have everything timed out perfectly so that I can be leaving the house by 8:05.  Sometimes random things come up that make me [...]

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Stephen, my Barista

I have always had an aversion to coffee.  But over the last couple of months, the taste has been increasingly growing on me.  Last time our good friend Matt brought over a pound of free Starbucks coffee, it smelled so good I simply had to try it.  Due to my extreme lack of sleep, I [...]

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Lazy Summer Afternoons

Today has been just what the doctor ordered.  Not that I’ve been to a doctor lately, thankfully.  But I have been going nonstop for the last couple of weeks and needed to just take a little breath.  A weekend with the Grandparents usually takes care of that.
After sleeping in (thankfully, those construction workers weren’t working [...]

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Symphony on the Prairie

When I was a little girl, we used to visit Connor Prairie with my grandparents when we went to their house in Carmel.  It has an old-time village where you can make corn husk dolls, dip candles, watch baby chicks hatch, and walk through old houses with actors playing their parts and telling stories of [...]

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May 29

Day 13

It’s midnight here at the “beautiful” Krystal Hotel in Prague. We arrived at about this time last night after a 7:00 concert in Brno. As we were unloading, Scott informed us that we should get everything off of the bus, as the bus driver was seriously concerned about the bus being broken into. This [...]

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Morning Mumblings

Grandma and Grandpa’s neighbors are not my friends. I declared this to Grandpa as I stumbled into the Breakfast Room at about 8:13 this morning–which is 7:13 on my clock. After an eventful and very long drive from Chicago to Carmel, IN, Stephen and I had finally pulled into their [...]

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To Bike or not to Bike

I have long pondered the possibility of bringing my bike from Iowa and riding it around Chicago to and from work and whatnot. It would not only be quicker than walking, but it would be economical and great exercise. However, a few main things have kept me from doing this:

The wicked winter weather
I [...]

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