Getting festive

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...

So she’ll sleep like a baby…

We’ve only got a few weeks left until Mackenzie arrives so putting her furniture together finally seemed like the right thing to do. Stefan did assure me that Warren Buffet let his kids sleep in a drawer of his dresser until they outgrew it and I assume they...

The bedroom overhaul

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...

Goodbye dear old friend

It’s sperrmüll time again here and that means there are piles of junk on every street corner in our town, along with tons of white panel vans with Polish license plates cruising around. The vans started appearing on Saturday morning already, waiting with...

Back to the farm

We’ve been on vacation for the last week and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. No vacation can be completely without mishaps and ours certainly wasn’t. Before we left last Thursday, we found out that a storm was hitting the coast of Holland where we were...