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 packages that arrived today from my mom was […]

While Stefan’s parents were here, his dad and he worked on several projects around the house that were not too labor intensive but still really needed to be done. One of those tasks was laying network cable through most of the main house. Yes, we have wireless here also…but it’s just not all that reliable […]

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 managed to get someone out here who could really tell us what […]

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 (insurance, more government offices, the US embassy). They actually offered  mail everything […]

I was reading a newsletter from parents.com this morning and saw a link to an article about swaddling. From what I’ve heard, some babies really love it so after reading how simple it is, we decided to give it a go. Well, Stefan did really. And as it would turn out, Mackenzie seems to love […]