I’ve been a fan of Nightmare Before Christmas since it’s first release. I had to hold off on showing it to my kids who are 8 and 3.. because they fear easily and I don’t want those long nightmare nights with them. They deserve peaceful slumber. We initially got the CD for the music first…
My best friend is having her first baby and I offered to do her baby shower. I was more than excited to do it and set up a profile on Pinterest to begin collecting ideas and start making a list of to-dos. She gave me a picture of a rug as the color inspiration for…
Happy Birthday Peanut! Today you are 6 years old! What a big girl you are. 🙂 6 is the number of notebooks you have. You feel that none should be empty so each one has your creativity in them. You have 6 courses in school, and you’re doing so well in each of them. The…
This year marks the 600th Anniversary of the Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square in Prague. The clock is huge! But what makes it so interesting is not so much its age, but the alchemy history behind it, and the little statues that pop out when it goes BONG! It’s beautiful to just sit…
So a robber walks into a bank, he has a hand grenade as a weapon (guns are hard to come by in Czech) – the police are called and there’s a standoff. But it’s not like an American standoff. No. These police charge into the building and the robber drops the hand grenade. The smart…
I am a work-from-home mom. My job is about 5 hours a day, and while it isn’t stressful, it is still work. I have tasks I need to accomplish in order to get my paycheck. So when people ask me to do things during the day… I see how I can work it into my…
Hubby loves to remix. He creates music too, but remixes are his big schtick. So he stumbled on a Caro Emerald song and he instantly fell in love the with music and had to put his own spin on it (being the Euro guy that he is) So he made remixes of two songs –…
It’s that time of year again that our precious daughter turns another year in age. My little 5 yr old.. this is for you: Precious child of mine.. today you are 5: 5 is the number of fingers you have on one hand, and 5 is the number of fingers your little brother has and…
I listen to a lot of everyday Czech music like Shalom (Petr Muk), Lucie, and of course fairytales. And every now and then Hubby will remember a song or a band.. luckily yesterday was one of those days. So let me introduce to you: Yo Yo Band – because there’s nothing like a bunch of…
I have finally decided to get very serious about learning Czech. I had toyed with the idea for years, and sure I’ve picked up the language along the way. But I’ve gotten away with learning it and passed it off at how hard it was. A friend of mine is learning Russian because they’re about…
My husband is the greatest in the world. We were watching Petr Muk sing Karel Svoboda’s Stin Katedral and I told him again how much I love this song. He introduced this song to me when we first began dating. The melody is dream-like, you can tell that he guy is just daydream, and immediately…
Isn’t this just the cutest tea house? It’s in Prague. I’m really digging the design and just maybe I can visit it next time we go there. Although I have a feeling my husband will be quite loud in it and my 4yr old with climb the walls…. OR I’ll just leave them outside of…
Unless you’ve been under a rock (or Antarctica) you know by now that Michael Jackson died yesterday. Shockingly, it upset my husband a great deal. He may be an adult now, but there’s still a hopeful starry-eyed Communist boy living in him that looked up to the King of Pop as the epitome of America.…
We tune in (online) every year to Eurovision and were so excited, as always, to see the Czech entry. I was disappointed with this years entry, but Hubby liked it. He said it was catchy and kind of funny. He’s just disappointed that Eurovision has turned into this kitchy competition when before it held some…
To Czech and Back 