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 […]

We went to the American embassy today to get Mackenzie all registered as a US citizen. I filled out the numerous pages of paperwork while still in the hospital (I’d printed everything beforehand since I knew I’d have plenty of time and quiet for that sort of thing) and once we finally got the birth […]

Finishing up with the gifts for now (although I do have two more to do), I also wanted to give a special thanks to Stefan’s parents who also brought us some adorable things from the US. You see, all this stuff has been piling up around here for the last few months (and mostly in […]