Skip made it back after being in the states for almost a week with a suitcase full of goodies from home. Cornbread mix, chili mix, baking soda and powder, children's Tylenol and cough syrup (hope we won't need it!). He also hauled back two 10 by 16 cookie sheets, but he could have saved the room. They are too big for the oven. Yes, that would be 16 inches. Too wide and too deep. Won't fit either way. Mercifully, I found this out poping in some ready-made waffles for Maddie and not after I had made a huge batch of cookies!
We also got some movies and TV series on DVD. I don't have to watch television all the time, but I do like to watch it SOME time and there is nothing I can watch here--especially since Skip is out of town so much. Maddie gets some English and German cartoons, Skip gets all sorts of sports, but all I can get is BBC Prime, and even though it's English, I can't understand what they're saying.
side note: I do have to say I like the fact that you don't have to be pretty to be on television in Europe. The people who play cops on BBC and German channels look like they could be cops--not underwear models. Kind of refreshing, really.
Anyway, I'm afraid my true colors are coming out. Church on Sunday morning at the English-speaking Anglican church didn't do much to help me cope with being a stranger in a strange land, but the episodes of Grey's Anatomy that Katie Kasten taped and transferred to DVD for me did wonders for my overall attitude.
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