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The Sound of One Hand Typing

by: Frau X

1/6/10 Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. C'mon in. Let me skooch over here. Darn, I lost the latch. Hold on. OK. Welcome! I hope you don't mind if a baby joins us — he's pretty much attached to me most of the day. I've even learned to do a lot of...

02/28/2011 8 Comments:

Early Bird Special

by: Frau X

2/26/10 I knew it was going to be a bad idea, but I did it anyway. And I was right. It was a bad idea. Baby Y and I were invited to a potluck dinner at the home of one of our American friends here in Munich. The entrée would be late since it was...

02/28/2011 7 Comments:

The “Mom”

by: Frau X

3/19/10 I started taking German lessons as soon as we moved to Munich a year ago. Aside from the general difficulties of learning a new language (the genders! the cases! the umlauts!), I am “handicapped” by the fact that everyone else speaks...

02/28/2011 13 Comments:

The Nanny Breakup

by: Frau X

4/14/10 I thought that once I got married, I wouldn’t have to date anymore. Meeting all those new people, hoping they like you, hoping you like them, wondering if they’ll call ... who needs it? Obviously, I do. My nanny just broke up with me. Over...

02/28/2011 10 Comments:

"Natural" Childbirth

by: Frau X

5/10/10 Being first-time parents, Herr X and I took a childbirth class a few months prior to Baby Y's arrival. There is one woman here in Munich who has cornered the market on English-speaking classes — let's call her "Betty" — and almost every...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

Cinderella

by: Frau X

5/20/10 Herr X’s big office party was on a Friday night. None of my usual dresses would do: Breastfeeding has turned my already ample bosom into something appropriate only at Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s house; certainly not suitable...

02/28/2011 8 Comments:

The New Me

by: Frau X

6/01/10 I like to complain. Not only is the water glass half empty, but I'm not even thirsty. Why are you pushing this water on me? And what, you couldn't pour me some more? Fortunately, my exile in Germany has given me lots to complain about. Whi...

02/28/2011 11 Comments:

When in Rome...

by: Frau X

6/17/10 …. squeeze other people’s babies. I had always heard that the Italians LOVE children, but never having had an available child when I backpacked through in my early twenties, I was not able to experience the love first hand. Let me tell you...

02/28/2011 9 Comments:

Another Day, Another Nanny

by: Frau X

7/09/10 I know I can’t expect a 25-year-old Oxford-educated woman to be my babysitter forever, but is more than 4 months too much to ask? Apparently so. I knew that I could never get Baby Y into a state-sponsored day care group - the waiting lists...

02/28/2011 7 Comments:

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Frau X, whose son was born in September 2009, is an International Mom of Mystery, an American attorney and journalist living in Germany. Her work has appeared in publications including Fodor’s and Playboy.com.

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