Diana Elle Blog

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers, in honor of it being thanksgiving, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of what I ate while we were in the hospital. I haven't uploaded my menu plans for over a month, mainly because our food was being provided and I wasn't doing any cooking (just 'preparing' our breakfast and abendbrot,  evening bread). The times we were home I was too busy with other stuff that I just bought whatever I felt like cooking and only did a quick plan on my way to the grocery store , which is also why i've been a little MIA lately, there is SO much to do around the house, I'll post an update soon enough.  Back to what I ate while we were in the hospital, they had a good variety, offering 4 -5 different meal options per day (3 regular ones and 2 vegetarian). I managed to snap a couple of pictures of  some of my lunches, I don't remember what everything was called, I think I might have written it down...

It is always a good thing to bring extra items to keep your child entertained, whether it's for keeping them distracted while traveling, or a stay in a hospital. Avi had surgery done yesterday, thank God everything went fine, in fact, the area that was operated was even smaller than we had foreseen, that's always a good thing, right? Now we just have to wait for it to heal and take extra care so she doesn't end up with that much of a scar.  We will be spending the next five days in the hospital, but this time I came prepared. I brought a bunch of snacks and activity books for her to keep entertained, since she won't be able to get off of the bed in a while. In the backpack you will find similar items to what I will be packing in her carry on backpack when we travel in three weeks! The backpack is filled with: - Comic book/coloring book - Phone/iPod with age appropriate games  what she uses most is mainly the electronics,   - Mandala creator -...

I love Christmas and the traditions that come with it!  Every country has it's different ones, I was thinking of writing a post about one of my favorite Christmas traditions, and I will do it when I go home in Dec. But then I read +Van 's post and figured, why not ask others to collaborate and spread the Christmas cheer around? So I'm offering a (first time ever) guest post series. If you're interested in joining my "Christmas around the globe" guest post series, you are more than welcome to! I want you to write about your experiences celebrating Christmas abroad or in your home country (what are the similarities and differences between the two?) or if you'd rather, you can tell me what your favorite Christmas tradition is? I'm offering 6 spots in this series, starting on December 2nd and I'll promote it on social media.  Would you like to participate?  Then sign up here . **UPDATE** Sign up's are now closed, but I might ...

There are currently a shit load of things I need to do, including, but not limited to:  - Start packing and throwing things away, I have exactly one month to have everything ready for our move. - Edit all the pictures from our two weeks in the hospital, Avi took her camera and even though a lot of them are blurry, I need to fix the ones that aren't so I can share them with our family. and... - keep posting on the blog. So for today I decided I would join in on Travel Tuesday and write about our Paris walking tour, I haven't blogged about our trip around Europe in a while, i'm almost finished, but I figured I'd get back on the saddle with this post.  Paris was a city on our list of cities to visit in Europe and i'm glad we did. I love the walking tours because they take you to major landmarks but make little stops around the way. The Paris tour was really different to all the other ones we've taken, instead of taking you to see the eiffel tower the...

If there's one thing the Blogtober14 challenge brought me is blogging friends! I was able to meet many new bloggers (of different niches) and hope to stay in contact with you all!  I've been blogging for a while and this is actually my 100th post, I'm taking advantage that Sam and Connie have nominated me for the liebster award and I'll be answering their questions so you could learn more about me! Rules 1. Link back to the person who nominated you.  2. Write 11 facts about yourself once nominated.  3. Answer the 11 questions from the person who nominated you.  4. Nominate 11 blogs with 200 or less followers.  Let them know they've been nominated. 5. Create 11 Questions for those bloggers to answer. Random Facts - Pablo is currently job hunting and depending on this we will decide where we will be living for the next few years.  - I can spend the whole day indoors and be okay with it, I don't do it often since sometimes Avi ne...

This past Tuesday the fourth was Avi's 5th birthday, and if you follow me on instagram you saw that we spent it in the hospital. Avi still had a great day, our neighbors came to visit her, the nurses and lunch lady gave her special gifts, and we decorated her room with a lot of balloons. The beautiful birthday girl with her presents from the nurses! A photo posted by Diana Elle (@dianaelleblog) on Nov 4, 2014 at 1:16am PST I've also been away from the blog for the past two weeks because we were in the hospital. If you remember I requested a prayer that no surgery would be necessary in my last post. Avi got a second degree burn, but we got through it! We're actually still working on it, keeping her hydrated, making sure she doesn't scratch, and applying cream so it doesn't dry up. The doctor told us it is practically all superficial except a little part on her leg that might be more deeper than we originally thought, there is a chance that she ...