My very dear friend Katie sent a “getting ready for Mackenzie” package a few weeks ago which set us up with clothes in a VERY big way. Lucky for us Katie has a daughter named Allie who is about 15 months older than Mack…and she also has very good taste in clothing. 🙂 So many […]

Something every woman knows how to do is multitask. It’s just a skill that we seem to have from birth. But learning to integrate a newborn into the mix of life takes some extra special juggling skills. Women who have twins or more than one child in general – hats off to you! But it […]

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 […]