What's new with us
One boy, three parties, 13th birthday
I have no idea what I was thinking when I asked Ron if he wants a birthday party this year. Over the years we have tried to avoid throwing birthday parties in every... Read More
My inspirational talk
I have been invited to be a guest in a Facebook live of one of the millions Facebook group I’m a member in (I think it has officially reached the point of addiction... Read More
Superstitions and Job Searching
I broke the kids. We can no longer leave the house without them searching for cars with the same three digits on the license plate (in Malta all cars have, or are supposed... Read More
Invisible disabilities – Do I tell or do I hide?
Dealing with invisible disabilities, you always have the question – do I tell, or do I hide? Ever since Yon was diagnosed we had to wrestle with this question, and every time we... Read More
Where we've been
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Moving Day
We are moving into our new flat. I can stop writing things like “temp-flat”, and starts writing “home” like a normal person. We are going to have our own home after a year of drifting around the world! We were, and … Read More
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School registration in Malta
Well, Tuesday morning we had two things to accomplish – we had to get the kids bed assembled and to get to the school to register them (because Easter break was finally over). Sounds simple enough. We scheduled the assembly to 8am … Read More
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Saturday shopping and Monday anxiety
Armed with the keys to the flat and after eating a few of the saved blueberry muffins, we set out to buy some moving in necessities. It was just that after we managed to solve the case of the missing pillows, … Read More
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We have keys (and our first power outage)
After the day we had Wednesday, we were planned for a nice and easy Thursday morning. We woke up to rain. Rain in Malta is more of a drizzle everywhere else, but mostly it all becomes very grey and depressing. Hidai was … Read More
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Shopping (and shipping) made hard
For some unknown reason Malta doesn’t have Easter Monday, so it all went back to normal Monday morning with Hidai going to work and the kids and I finding our school rhythm once again. It wasn’t easy at all. All throughout … Read More
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House search in Malta – Part 3
I think I slept through Friday. I was so exhausted, we all were, after these last couple of weeks, that I think we spent most of Friday doing nothing at all. It’s a strange thing, moving. It is supposed to get … Read More
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House search in Malta – Part 2
We started Wednesday with the hopes that somehow everything will turn out ok. A hope that was based on nothing really, It’s just that all the apartments we’ve seen and didn’t want were still there, and one was even reduced, so … Read More
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House search in Malta – Part 1
We started our second week in Malta with a quiet day of figuring out how to do laundry (I chose the wrong program so each load took three hours, and we hang it inside like we are used to and not … Read More
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First weekend in Malta – Part 3
Thursday I woke up (very early) Thursday morning with the clear decision to leave yesterday in yesterworld, and that it has to be a better day. Even if it was 6:30 in the morning and sunny like it’s the middle … Read More
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Moving to Malta – Part 2
Tuesday So we get to Tuesday morning, where we learned our lesson and ordered the taxi in advance, so we’ll be at the Identity Malta office at 7:30 because the gate-keeper said that contrary to what I assumed, there shouldn’t be … Read More
