I mentioned yesterday that this conference turned into an MFME gathering. My dear mother has been trying to get these sisters together for so long. Oh, we’ve gone through every different scenario and possible location as to where to gather. Everyone has such full schedules, kids at different ages, and life issues looming up in…
On a side-note to that title, MFME (Mothers and Future Mothers of Eyrealm) has kind of morphed into “ME” (Mothers of Eyrealm) since now everyone is a mother, but we discussed calling it “WE” instead (Women of Eyrealm) since some of the grandkids are now turning into women and may join us before too long…and…
It’s going to take me a minute to get to the forgiveness part of this post, because there’s some background to go over first. Let’s start with this. See these two awesome women right here? One is my mother, and the other is my sister. And I adore them… Along with all of these other…
(There are links to all the rest of the MFME posts at the end of this post.) After Austria we drove and drove to get to Munich where our flights home were taking off the next day. This was probably our longest leg of driving. Let’s take a look at the map to see the…
One of my favorite parts of our trip was our Sound of Music bike tour. Because who doesn’t love the Sound of Music? Maybe we are just nerdy but we love that movie. We loved it so much growing up that we even performed the “so long, farewell” song for missionaries when they would come…
I have to split up Salzburg into two different posts because I’m pretty sure the server might have a conniption if I try to jam all the pictures into one post. Because really, if you go on a “Fraulein Maria bike tour” in Sound of Music land, that has to be a post in and…
Please disregard this post if you are sick of hearing about MFME, but I’m determined to record my thoughts and feelings before they start to fade. Otherwise I’ll kick myself later because man, I want to remember this stuff! I’m almost done, just Austria and some funny Oktoberfest stuff next to wrap it up. But…
Once upon a time there was a very young King in Bavaria with a creative mind named King Ludwig the Second. People thought he was crazy. He ascended to the throne very unprepared (according to his own account) and didn’t care one whit for public affairs or diplomacy. He just loved the arts. Art, music…
A whole heck of a lot of our adventure over in Europe happened in cars trying to decipher signs like these: We had five in each car (four women and baby Dean in one), and we switched around at each stop. One of my favorite parts of the whole trip included the discussions…