Reflections on my first six months and my new life in Poland

Hello all,

Well after being nudged, pinched and bitten by my better half for the past six months I have finally decided to start my own blog about our new life abroad (for me and my girls) and to stop the attacks if nothing else.  It is impossible to sum up all of the awesome and terrible things one can experience in half a year so here are a few of the highlights of what I have been up to with the hope that I will do regular updates to this blog.  My family moved to Poland because my mother in law was diagnosed with a late stage cancer and we wanted her to have as much time as possible with her granddaughters.  Mama has gone through several different types of treatment options over the last 14 months or so and after the initial growth and shrinking of tumors, the last six months has been met with little to no growth, no more Chemo and some time to laugh, yell and wrestle with our girls.  Life here in Poland has been a learning experience and an opportunity to have more time to spend with my family.  I really miss being able to go to a Costo or Walmart near home and buy everything I need for a week.  I miss the idea of a 24 hour gym because here in Poland most will only be open from like 8-am to 10-pm or 8-22 for those of us who use 24 hour time.  But I mostly miss the food diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area and the ability to get a big juicy steak or good sushi :)

 Now after ranting a little bit, here is some of the good :)

 Here I am suited up on the far left as the speaking captain for our last game of the regular season the B Eagles vs the B Spartans.  We won the game and it was a lot of fun under the lights :)

Here is a picture of my girls in Sweden :)

This was taken at a historical site where you could rent a wagon to drag them around in.

It was hard not to laugh during this picture, this was a hotdog that I got in Sweden :)

As an American I don't know where to begin with what is wrong with this hotdog :)

Here I am with the girls at some castle ruins not far from our house :)

It is pretty cool that you can find castle ruins all over Europe and no I'm not pregnant, I was just much fatter when I first arrived :)

And finally a picture of me and my beautiful wife :)

Magda is usually the one taking all of the nice pictures, this one was taken by our older daughter Lydia who can surprise us at times :)

Living in Poland is actually pretty awesome.  They have adopted my favorite sport in the world American Football :)!  Polish people are generally very cool, giving and educated.  There is a great sense of community among people here and the young generation is gobbling up American culture and business.  They are also a fun bunch of drinking buddies and I have not come across anyone who does drugs or the subject in a conversation.