Knorr Family Adventures

Last Saturday Anton's class organized breakfast and before I forget I'd like to take down some notes.   Anton does not go to local school, his school is in Frankfurt and also if you didn't know Anton goes to school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children (this will be important in a bit, also I will do a separate post on why Anton is in that school as well as how it's going).  Because it is a specialized school, children travel to school as far as 100 km/60 miles and that makes it really hard to have school friends.  Thus (I am guessing) is the reason why in the fall school organized family fest and now class breakfast - get to know other parents and see who your kid is friends with. The school has a hard-line against sugar and because of that I signed up to bring bread rolls - I didn't want to be the one to bring the wrong type of honey or something like that. I guess most parents thought the same thing because there was a TON of bread products with very

After living in Germany for 4 years and having German fridge and freezer for 3 of those years, I feel like my grocery shopping habits have changed and sometimes I have to wonder what would happen if we were to move back to the States.  Because German fridges and freezers are pretty small it was pretty necessary to go to the store at least once a week and often times more than once because one week worth of food for 5 people wouldn't fit.  Moreover, the freezer would not fit more than a box of pizza, fish sticks and 1 container of ice cream - freezing meats/chickens/... was not an option.    About a year ago we upgraded our kitchen and bought a new fridge and it comes with water and ice! Did I mention that nobody in Germany uses ice except my husband but he was and is super happy?!?   Anyway, there are 4 stores in our town - they are all pretty much next to each other.  One is a bio Whole Foods type of market (Tegut), we have two discount stores (Lidl and Aldi), and one re

Anton is currently right in the middle of 1st grade.  So far most of the homework has him either working on his letters in German or adding and subtracting in math.   Sometimes he fights it but most of the time, things go ok.  Especially since we bought him his new desk last week!  Today a note came home - from now on, every weekend, Anton (and the rest of his class) need to draw and eventually write what they do every single weekend.  I had no problems when this assignment came home for his winter vacation but I feel like I have to do something AMAZING (at least worthy of sharing) every single weekend now just so that Anton can draw a picture of that.    It also so happens that we don't have any plans this particular weekend.  Chris and Andrei went 2 hours away on scouting event.  They took the car so the plan is to play, watch some movies and clean.