Last night was a very long one here. Hubby didn’t get home til 11:30ish which was better than anticipated since he’d been to his company Christmas party in Dusseldorf (2-4 hours drive, depending on traffic.) Mack was already feeding when he got home…and decided to keep that going off and on until about 4am. I […]

We went out Sunday to Hirzbacher Höfe in a little town called Hammersbach. It is one of the few places around here that seems to cut their own trees from their own lot. You can even go into the forest and cut a tree fresh if you don’t like anything in their pre-cut lot. The […]

I’ve heard that newborns seem to breastfeed all the time…I won’t argue with that. The last few days it seems that most of the time when Mackenzie’s awake, she’s attached to me. And unfortunately, that leaves very little time for much else. I’m managing to keep up with laundry pretty well…and I can use the […]

We went to get our Christmas tree yesterday…and Stefan has been putting up lights and building yard decorations over the last couple of weekends. We were hoping that some more of our neighbors would find their holiday spirit…but so far they seem to be trying to conserve energy or something. Kinda pathetic really. Or maybe […]

Mackenzie has been learning to use a pacifier these days but keeping it in the mouth isn’t always the easiest…we delayed introducing one to her for a while since we didn’t want her getting confused. Plus she was so quiet and easy going all the time that she never needed one. But since she’s starting […]