St Nicholas; Santa’s skinny brother

There’s a great article about Sinterklaas on Etsy’s Storque that describes this holiday I grew up with perfectly. It’s a tradition I do miss, and hope to bring back into Nolan’s life sooner rather than later. Even though I have told my friend Leeann this exact story about St Nicholas and it’s practices several times, [...]

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My legs are going to be sore tomorrow.

Greg and I usually get eachother one big joint thing for christmas, rather than spending a bunch of money on random things for eachother we don’t need. This year we decided to get eachother bikes. One awesome side-effect of moving from the ‘burbs’ to downtown means that bikes are for more than just excersise. They [...]

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I mizzundastood, but now I see!

My mom asked me a few days ago if I was on “Hyves” yet. I wasn’t, but being the internets freak that I am, I had to check it out and participate. It turns out it’s basically the Dutch equivalent of MySpace. I signed up, created my profile, and started looking around, and I TOTALLY [...]

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