When we were in Hannover visiting our daughter and her family in May 2018, the Stadtpark near their home was our favorite place to play. The grandkids and I would go there at least once a day, to run over the grass, play with a ball, and annoy the ducks and the large goldfish in […]
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This is Larissa’s story about her first childbirth experience. It is presented here, in a slightly edited form, by Marilyn. Sept 21, 2010 Around noon, I was putting away the dishes in the dishwasher, debating whether to have fish sticks or a Kaho-smuggled box of Annie’s Mac and Cheese or (more likely) both of them,
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After a simple civil marriage ceremony in Switzerland in the autumn of 2007, Hans Georg and Larissa moved to southern Germany. It is the custom in Europe to have both a civil ceremony and a church ceremony. The civil ceremony is always first, because the church ceremony has no legal standing. The church ceremony is
Originally posted on RANDOM THOUGHTS FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008 I was cleaning out drawers today in preparation for getting furniture ready to move for the new carpeting job. (Carpet will be “Native Colors” a soft brown in Karastan’s “Divisadero” line, with little flecks of red and blue-gray in the brown, to help hide stains.) I
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Getting To Switzerland Our beloved daughter Larissa is getting married to Mr. Hans-Georg Freiermuth in Zürich, Switzerland on November 24, 2007! After receiving that news, of course we begin making plans to travel to Switzerland. By the end of September, we have airplane tickets and a hotel reservation. (At this point, $.60 = 1.00 CHF)
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Marilyn and I traveled to the very small settlement of Mountain Spring, Nevada.
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In May of 1996, Larissa was graduating from Scripps College. She had done a good job with her studies, and her parents decided to give Larissa a car as a graduation present. We purchased a used 1 year old Nissan Sentra at Roger Beasley Mazda in Austin. She came home the week before graduation, just
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Larissa’s Study Abroad: University of Bristol Marilyn’s Version: In 1995, Larissa chose to attend the University of Bristol for her year of study abroad from Scripps College. Bristol was an English-speaking university, and she could easily transfer the credits to Scripps. Another student, whose name I don’t recall, was also going to Bristol. Larissa’s friend
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Marilyn remembers best about the photo with Uncle Bruce is that it was taken one afternoon when Larissa was extremely fussy (probably from those teeth coming in) and she absolutely, positively did not want to take a nap.
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