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If you live in an apartment, have kids, and your apartment is not some attic loft with windows only in the ceiling, then you too have nightmares about your kid/s falling to thier deaths from your bedroom window, innocently cracked open to let in a breeze. N actually had a real honest to goodness nightmare where Felek plunged from our window and N tried to ctach him, missing by fractions of an inch. Terrible, horrible threat- these damn windows, but boarding them up is a very poor option so we're… Continue

Polish - which is what you have to speak when you live here - is an overly complex language that is very resistant to upgrades and simplifications though it has, like all things old world, it's many charms. One of the drags of speaking Polish is that you have to conjugate verbs AND nouns according to gender, which is particularly tough to master for young speakers like Felek. He is constantly getting mixed up and refering to himself doing something as though he were a girl. Though we know this i… Continue

I haven't a spare second these days for blogging what with trying to prepare for Flora's arrival (end of august) and finish all the projects I won't have time for when she does. Our son Felek, however, as he gets more and more talkative, keeps writing blog posts in my head! But since my fancy cell phone died (of a virus that kept me connected to the internet even when travelinning abroad which racked up a phone bill of 5000 bucks for my company, no less) I can no longer update my moblog, so I've… Continue