Juggling with the monkey

Something every woman knows how to do is multitask. It’s just a skill that we seem to have from birth. But learning to integrate a newborn into the mix of life takes some extra special juggling skills. Women who have twins or more than one child in general...

Care packages of tastiness

Stefan had the pleasure of visiting the customs office today. Somehow he managed to get the customs agent to have mercy on him and he let him leave without paying anything. Stefan was doing his best to play dumb – it apparently worked. One of the magical...

Finally warming up the place

Last week, Stefan took advantage of his parents being around and scheduled a heater repairman to come out. We’ve had issues with a couple of our heaters since we moved in…partially because our contractor was an idiot – and also because we never...

She’s officially German

Yesterday, Stefan went and faced the folks at the Standesamt so Mackenzie is now officially a German citizen. We’ll be getting about 10 copies of birth certificates in the mail, all slightly different for the various offices where we need to register her...