Having guests in town is always a good reason to drag everyone out of the house on a sunny day and go do something incredibly touristy. We thought about making them do some work around here…but the weather was just too nice so we bundled ourselves up a bit (it was sunny but not necessarily […]

The sun is shining here today, for the first time in what feels like weeks. And although it’s supposed to be only in the mid-50’s the next few days, I definitely prefer cool days with sunshine than grey, miserable, rainy days like those that usually fill the winters here in Frankfurt. So I took advantage […]

Whenever an election rolls around, I am quite happy to be living in a foreign country. I don’t have to be overwhelmed with the political mudslinging and the endless number of commercials about what horrible thing this or that candidate has done. But this year, it seems that more people than ever are expressing their […]

I bought us a Baby Bjorn Synergy carrier a few weeks ago via eBay and know that it will be great for extended wearing, taking long walks, shopping excursions and so on. But I also think that I’ll want to be wearing Mackenzie when I’m working around the house too and I won’t want to […]

We had a lot of work ahead of us this weekend. Thankfully we are IKEA building pros so the stack of boxes laying in Mackenzie’s future room wasn’t all that daunting…but actually figuring out how we planned to arrange all the new closets with our current furniture was making us scratch our heads a bit. […]