Posts by Jen
I love Lebanese!
Justin and I are in love with middle eastern food. My best friend from high school is Lebanese and we would come home after school and eat delicious homemade Lebanese foods till we couldn’t eat anymore! When Justin and I moved into our apartment on Montparnasse we were blessed by the most delicious Lebanese restaurant right across the street. We would eat there several times a week…pretty much whenever I didn’t cook. So this last weekend I was motivated by Laina to start cooking at home more. I did it tonight. I made a whole Lebanese feast! It was my first time ever and I have to say it wasn’t that bad. The hummus was a bit chunky (our blender is going downhill) and the baba ganoush was a bit too runny. Other than that, it was delicious and I learned for next time! Here is a picture of all…
Read MoreAll my Fetishes?
I was recently informed that my mother in law Ann had been telling people that the ISH in my blog stood for Fetish! Ha ha! She is so funny! Just wanted to clarify to all of you who may have thought this, that it in fact stands for issues! If it were fetishes, you would have maybe found pictures of me licking Justin’s big hairy toe (ew!), but instead you get pictures of when my eye got swollen out of control or pictures of my new mullet. Fetishes I don’t have, but issues…I have many!
Read MoreLittle “Neeners”
Yesterday we went and visited Christian and Nadine and their new little Nina! She is sooooo precious and only seven days old! Nadine’s mom is in town and made us some AMAZING traditional Palestinian food! YUM!!! We love love love Christian and Nadine and are so very sad to be moving away from them, especially now that we both have little girls! I already nicknamed Nina “Neeners”. She is so cute! Maisie didn’t quite know what to think of her, but she was pretty interested in watching her new Parisian best friend. We ended the night with a little breastfeeding sesh (session). How ridiculous is it that I look like I am nursing a toddler compared to little Nina?!? I know it may be weird to post pictures of two moms breastfeeding, but I just thought these were too cute! And you can see how discreet we are! In my…
Read MoreAmsterdam was so much fun!
We had an absolutely WONDERFUL time in Amsterdam! It was so fun just hanging out at the Graf house! Maisie had a GREAT time as well. She loved all the kids in the family and was very content to not even see either me or Justin (unless she wanted to eat). I really didn’t even need to bring her stroller because everyone just sort of took turns holding her. It was very sweet. This is a picture of all of us hanging out in the guest room (where we slept). Maisie was having a blast playing with the boys! We took this picture right before we left in their backyard. top row: Laina, London, Chelsea, Phil, Sydney bottom row: Kelton, and superhero Branson. In short, the trip was a great time of talking about our future and dreaming together of what that could look like!
Read MoreAnother day in Amsterdam
I just love the canals in Amsterdam! I love the little cafés along the canals! Everyone talks about the cafés in Paris, but I think the ones in Amsterdam are just as great, if not better! I love their warm drinks! Yum! Here are a couple typical pictures of the canals. In the second picture you can see a little café right on the water! I also have to say that I love the buildings. They are all so different, so much different looking than Parisian buildings. I Meet Laina! I have talked a lot about Laina, but not so much on my blog. Anyways, we love her and Phil and their children. Speaking of children…here is Maisie with their oldest daughter Chelsea.
Read MoreMaisie’s first real train ride
So I ended up sleeping about ten minutes last night. For some reason I never am able to sleep the night before we are going to travel. It didn’t really help that I started packing at 1am and needed to wake up at 4:30am. EW! I ended up finally just getting out of bed at 4:20am for the day! EW!!!! I hate not getting sleep! The train ride was long. Well, four hours to Amsterdam. Maisie did amazing. Never cried. Just let me know when she was hungry or wanted a diaper change. She was tired as well since she is used to sleeping in along with me, so she was passed out on my chest for a good portion of the ride. I even slept for about thirty minutes! I am so thankful we have an easy travel baby! Here are some pictures from our train ride today! I…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Mom!
I just HAD to do another post today for my mom!!! It is her birthday! She sent me this super cute picture of her! Man, she seriously gets prettier and prettier every year (even with the nerdy glasses on)! I love you mom and happy birthday you hottie you!!!!
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