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 […]

I haven’t mentioned much about what things were like those four days while I was in the hospital; but mistake my lack of words up until this point as a sign that things weren’t.  It was rather the opposite. Because I’m an expat and I am still not 100% fluent in German, I am always […]

The house is full today as both my mom and Stefan’s parents are spending Christmas at our house. A feast is being prepared to mirror what we would have had on Thanksgiving since we missed it this year: turkey, stuffing, current relish, fresh rolls, salad, sweet carrot, corn with cream cheese, brussel sprouts…and for desert […]

My mom and I went to find some pre-Christmas decorating bargains at the local home improvement store yesterday which already has all their holiday stuff marked down 50%. We don’t have too many Christmas-sy things around our house since those sorts of things are expensive to collect together (which is why it’s usually done over […]

I was finally doing a bit of catching up on reading other people’s blogs and came across what I found amusing at 11:30pm while we watched Private Practice in bed. Connie at Young and Restless mentioned this game of sorts and I figured I would give it a go. Feel free to take a gander […]