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Living in each other’s pockets

How has it been living in such close proximity for almost a month? Not as bad as I feared, but not as great as it could be, but we’ll get there. The kids have been awesome considering they have no space. Neither do Nat and I for that matter. In fact the kids have more […]

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Kids Latvia Learning Travel

24 days in, how are we doing?

We’re doing extremely well! The kids are doing great with changes, we’re adapting every single day. In every way possible. From shopping (you know all about that) and cooking (two burners, no oven, 2 pots and one tiny fry pan) to catching the bus and tram. You know about the language issue and food issues. […]

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Jurmala, and how to feed a family with food needs

Say it with me, “Yur-malla”. Latvian and Spanish are quite similar languages in that you never say a ‘J’ like “jump”, it’s always “yuh”. That aside we had a rough Saturday, we slept in and realised we couldn’t go sightseeing outside of town so we decided Sunday we’d go to Jurmala and that Akvaparks Alice […]

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CAT'S JUMPING OVER RAINBOWS

Merow! Look a cat’s hanging out the window ! We saw a cat’s house that is 5 boxes long so the cats can sleep and aren’t strays.Look most of the cat’s are fluffy. Yesterday I saw one cat on the top of a car’s bonnet.THEN i THOUGHT of A title CATS JUMPING OVER RAINBOWS! I […]

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Settling in.

Last night there was a performance art show happening in the courtyard in front of our house. It was amazing. We’ve watched two people on rollerblades wearing morph suits egging and dry humping each other. They weren’t skilled rollerbladers and kept falling over (but being true performers, they worked that into their act).  That was […]