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Crazy Christmas Lady

It’s finally Christmas in the Soldaat household!  It took me a little longer than normal but I finally got our tree up and decorations throughout the house.  I haven’t taken photos of it all yet but Here’s a little something to start out.  The tree is up! I love that we have gifts to put under the tree already.  My …

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Christmas in the Netherlands

It’s now only 29 (oops – Typo!) 69 days until Christmas and as my latest shopping excursions have shown, the Dutchies have their Christmas items out on the shelves already! So far we’ve found Christmas items for sale at Blokker and Xenos, and our local Intratuin is currently about 50% through setting up their winter wonderland!  I know this would …

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I’m in an Instance!

This week I’m FOADing my husband and his World of Warcraft addiction.   I am quickly reaching the end of my rope with it and I feel like a total hypocrite about it… but I don’t care.  I’m sick to death of his gaming addiction. Being a former gamer myself it’s hard not to feel like I don’t have a lot …

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Three Months

… until I get to see my parents again!! By that time it will have been 2 years since I’ve seen them. Again, far far too long. They will be here from May 3rd – May 17th and I absolutely cannot wait. It’s nice having something to look forward to like this. It also gives me some motivation to get …

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Take Two

Ok, after a brief crying session I decided to give the tree another go. Thankfully it is a fake tree because I could just bend it back into shape after being thrown to the floor. A real tree would have been a disaster. It came out nice, but the “wheee I’m doing the christmas tree!!” feeling wasn’t there. I must …

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