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Month: December 2021

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Product Review: Bowling Set for Toddlers

Posted on 31. December 202131. December 2021 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Bowling is one of Germany’s popular indoor sports, often available in restaurants (but you can play it outside, too). My father went…

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Product Review: Wooden Tetris for Kids’ Strategic Skills Development

Posted on 31. December 202130. April 2022 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. As a child of the 80s, I loved to play Tetris (invented 1984 by a Russian software engineer) on my gameboy (invented…

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Product Review: Hot Wheels Toxic Gorilla Slam

Posted on 26. December 202127. December 2021 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Lyons Cub had this one big wish for Christmas: The “green slime gorilla” from Hot Wheels! He had seen it on his…

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… Get a Toniebox and Tonies for Your Kid?

Posted on 25. December 202130. April 2022 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Do you have a bilingual child? Even if your child speaks only English or German, check out this awesome, relatively new toy…

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Product Review: Matching Dinosaur PJ’s for Christmas

Posted on 23. December 202123. December 2021 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Have you jumped on the band wagon yet and gotten matching pajamas for yourself and your kiddos? I have to admit I’m…

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… Visit the Dinos in the Naturkundemuseum Munster?

Posted on 22. December 202130. April 2022 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Leander’s pre-Christmas gift arrived on December 21st in the form of a visit to the LWL Museum für Naturkunde mit Planetarium in…

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Product Review: Playmobil Advent Calendar Christmas Manger Yellow

Posted on 18. December 202123. December 2021 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Lyons Cub’s first Christmas manger, when he was a year old, was from the Little People nativity scene. It was really cute…

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… be a Student Athlete in Former Socialist East Germany?

Posted on 17. December 202117. December 2021 by lyoness

My mother’s brother and one of her sisters with their children grew up, lived, and worked in East Germany. Her oldest sister and she herself got out as teenagers, before the Wall was built. While I was lucky to be born on the other side of the Wall in prosperous, free West Germany, I was…

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… Work for a Railroad Track Maintenance Training Academy?

Posted on 12. December 20216. June 2022 by lyoness

I hope this blog will be interactive, so we can learn what we mommies out there do for a job. Who is a WAHM? Work at home counts, too, of course! For example, who is a blogger, earning money through affiliate marketing? Who works a 9-5 job? Who is a freelancer? Who is homeschooling and…

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German Christmas Market

… Go to a German Christmas Market?

Posted on 11. December 202111. December 2021 by lyoness

We have the “2G rules” at the Christmas market (“geimpft und genesen,” which means “vaccinated or recovered,” and our immunization status is checked at the entrance with the CovPass-App that makes sure the digital records are not forged). And of course, we’re all wearing our FFP2 masks and keeping social distance. But the German Christmas…

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… Celebrate Saint Nicholas Day in Germany?

Posted on 8. December 202111. December 2021 by lyoness

To be honest, I wasn’t sure it would work a second time, but it did. Lyons Cub will be four years old in a month, but he still innocently and sweetly believes in Saint Nicholas and was so excited he came on December 6th! It was his uncle again, wearing the same outfit as last…

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… Bake Christmas Cookies With a Toddler?

Posted on 4. December 20215. December 2021 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. The day before Saint Nicholas is coming to visit our place, Lyons Cub, grandma, and Lyoness are busy baking Christmas cookies. We’re…

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Guest Post: What is American Homeschooling?

Posted on 4. December 20214. December 2021 by lyoness

by: Emily Sewell When people outside of the United States think of American homeschooling, I can only imagine what comes to mind. Religious zealots, living off the grid, and/or families of at least fifteen children most likely. I think there is a solid stereotype in there somewhere. Well, I am here to dispel some of…

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Product Review: I am Your Dino Friend

Posted on 4. December 20214. December 2021 by lyoness

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. The Mix and Match-a-Saurus from VTech was a big hit with Lyons Cub last Christmas. It comes with a big, orange egg…

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