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...
Archive - June 2016
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...
Every Saturday we make our weekly trip to the Naschmarkt, a mile long market of fresh produce, restaurants, and an antique flea market . But the most important thing we do is get a Döner Kebap and go to the park. The kids all...
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...
There’s a hipster-ish pizza place around the corner from our apartment called La Pausa where you can order a meter long pizza. So that’s what we did for dinner at the park tonight!
We homeschool and usually try to do our school work in the morning before heading out to a park or other fun activity in the afternoon. This morning when Oliver was supposed to write in his journal, he asked if we could go to the...
The main city library is just a couple blocks from our house. The kids have wanted to go for a long time because they love books. Today we finally went to check it out! We headed up to the kids section and were pleasantly...
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...
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...
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...