Living Large In Our Little House

Thanks to Steffi, our German exchange daugh­ter and her fam­ily in Munich, we now have a new tra­di­tion at The Little House.

When we vis­ited Steffi’s fam­ily three years ago to attend her wed­ding, we spent a cou­ple of evenings at her mother’s flat.

After the meal and good con­ver­sa­tion (some of which had to be trans­lated for us), her mother, Barbara, brought out a lit­tle album.

Everyone was required to write a lit­tle some­thing mem­o­rable about the evening. Barbara’s book was brim­ming with quips dat­ing back years, all writ­ten for pos­ter­ity. Some of the peo­ple, such as her par­ents, were no longer with them, but they had the album of mem­o­ries. Steffi and Barbara told us that pulling out that album was like reliv­ing a fun-filled get together all over again.

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