Vienna’s Natural History Museum

On Wednesday afternoons the Natural History Museum has a showing at their Digital Planetarium that is in English. The kids have always wanted to go to the planetarium, and today it was raining so it was a perfect day to watch the...

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Chopped Family Champions

Whenever we are somewhere with cable TV, the kids love to watch Chopped on the Food Network. Or rather they’ve learned to love it, since we watch it whenever we have the chance. So the kids have begged us to hold regular...

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Long Night of the Churches

All over Austria there is a big event called Lange Nacht der Kirchen where all the churches in the country hold concerts and other activities late into the night. As there is a cathedral on every other block in Vienna we took...

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Sometimes We Just Need to Play

I have made a goal to be more positive and appreciate the many blessings in my life. On my first official day after making this goal, our day was not going very smoothly and I started to get really frustrated. I decided we just...

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Pastries on the Train

Sometimes we all go to work with Chris. I help out at the warehouse and the kids read, play, and find fun ways to amuse themselves with cardboard and office supplies. On those days we often get pastries on the way to work. We...

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Sundays are Fun Days

James was having a hard time sitting nicely in church last week, so Chris took him out and they hung out drawing pictures on a whiteboard. First James wanted a picture of superman, then James wanted a pirate ship, so superman is...

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