the view from poppelvej

this has been the view from poppelvej for almost a month. child playing DS lite, mother trying to engage her via skype. tomorrow, she'll be home!!!  yippee!!!!

if you too would like to make free calls from computer to computer and really, really, really inexpensive calls to phones all over the world, you too can have skype. http://www.skype.com. it's a free download. nachtigals love free. go, get it now, and ping me on my 'puter.

the "eyes" have it...

photo credit:  moneek

although i wasn't there...

monica loaded up the whole batch and met the grandparents in omaha at the zoo last weekend.

doesn't she have a fabulous camera? even tho' it's not a nikon. :-)

in a burst of creativity, i successfully scanned a "thank you" picture for don and debbie and uploaded it on the blog (see below).

then, somehow i found another blog site where cousin monique had created a "wordle" describing her time with sabin, owen and finn. not to be outdone, i made and posted my own "wordle" (also below) with highlights from our nachtigal family reuion...(except the word "mosquitoes" wasn't big enough to portray the ones we encountered on the excursion to the house on the creek).

i suddenly thought of my really creative cousin, debbie lang arter, who would have designed and painted her own picture from paints she made herself, using organically grown vegetables harvested in her own garden, hand-raised from endangered seeds she rescued from a trip to afghanistan, onto canvas she created using recycled paper, and suddenly my accomplishments were diminished...

...but at least someone is posting on the blog - right, julochka?

thank you
to Don and Debbie for hosting our family reunion.

I'm not sure they have access to our Nachtigal Family blog, so send them a note by snail mail to: 35510 SD Hwy. 50, Platte, SD 57369.

Are there any thoughts about the timing for the next family get-to-gether? And is it too soon to ask for volunteers for the location?

look at them nachtigals!!

that's a whole lotta nachtigals!

where are the stories?

ok people, i'm depending on you here!! i want stories!!!!!

please. :-)

and not just ones condemning me for sending my 7-year-old daughter on an transatlantic flight on her own. she LOVED it! and when you've flown as much as she has, it wasn't really that big a deal.