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Mommy Goes Mummy

Chronicles of an American Expat Family in London

Tag: family

Keeping Serene in La Serenissima

“Let it go,” despite its dubious connotations with 90s-era psychobabble and Disney song lyrics, is a cliché with staying power. Because sometimes you must let it go.

April 23, 2015January 5, 2016 MommyGoesMummyLeave a comment

Should Have Known Better

The man I married and I share a few fundamental differences, but the most glaring is this: he is a proficient skier, and I am not. Multiple ski trips and at least three different encounters with private lessons have done little to raise my level of skiing fitness beyond “perpetual beginner,” as my husband lovingly… Read More Should Have Known Better

February 28, 2015January 6, 2016 MommyGoesMummy1 Comment

Layover

I spent my 40th birthday in what must be the least appealing venue: an airport, on a layover. Despite being logistically essential to many journeys, layovers rarely rate with the experience of the destination itself, and people will do anything to avoid it. Get from Point A to Point B, and forget what’s in between.… Read More Layover

February 14, 2015January 6, 2016 MommyGoesMummyLeave a comment

Weekend Hamburgers

Fact: If you book a weekend trip from London to Hamburg, Germany, for a family of four, leaving on a Friday night, when the man of said family has just arrived home Friday morning from a week-long business trip to South Africa, you will announce yourselves in Hamburg with a pissy, plodding walk through the… Read More Weekend Hamburgers

December 1, 2014January 6, 2016 MommyGoesMummyLeave a comment

Mom Makes Landfall

My mother came for a visit to the UK, our first American visitor. It was a wonderful visit, except that my mother was convinced I was trying to kill her the whole time. The motive was unclear (at first, anyway), but the methods were many: 1. Death by podiacide. I don’t think “podiacide” is a… Read More Mom Makes Landfall

October 9, 2014July 15, 2015 MommyGoesMummy1 Comment

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