Last night we had a quiet little New Years celebration at home with Mack and my mom. Dinner was a meat fondue with meatballs, filets of chicken and beef, and four dipping sauces. We had salad of lamb’s lettuce with champagne dressing and a baguette along with it. Very tasty stuff! We had quite a […]

We took Mackenzie for her third checkup today (the U3 untersuchung). It was our first visit to Dr. Petra Reitz in Karben since all the other exams had been done at St. Vinzenz Hospital. I rather randomly chose her from the phonebook online since we couldn’t find the name of the pediatrician in Bad Vilbel […]

Well, I guess I spoke too soon when I mentioned that I had no other hospital experiences to compare my birthing experience to…I just spent two days in the Hanau City hospital with Mackenzie. No worries – this story has a happy ending all around. Last Saturday evening, Stefan and I went to walk the […]

So my MIL & FIL were standing outside our house the other day and an older lady was walking by. She stopped to chat and mentioned that the decorations on the house looked really nice, “although they are a bit American. Not that that is a bad thing.” We got a good laugh from that […]

While in the hospital for four days, I finished reading Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start. When this book arrived, Stefan looked at it and said, “You know I’ll never be reading that, right?” Not because he doesn’t care about how Mack turns out…but because he figures I’ll tell […]