Wednesday, 7. January 2009, 12:35:00
happy, home
... Sam
dixit, as the movers finally finished unpacking and assembling all our furniture and stuff from Portugal that arrived yesterday on our new apartment!
So there you have it, new apartment + old furniture + some new dents in it = HOME! I am happy! Happy that my kids now feel like Düsseldorf is home to them, happy that we have all been so extremely lucky that all has gone so well with this whole relocation madness! Happy that we've had a real snow white Xmas, the very first in Germany, I have a snow filled backyard to prove it!
I am totally exausted, yesterday was tough but I can truly say that I am happier that ever! Gosh, even our neighbours seem like really nice people, we got invited to a little barbeque at their place already!
Monday, 20. October 2008, 19:49:06
home, germany, family
Well it's rather like squeezing an elephant into a Mini, but slightly less hazardous!
And since it'll only be for the next two months the "elephant" won't mind too much. It was either we all squeezed into this one bedroom cosy appartment which is rented out until January by the company I work for. Or we'd have to move to a new one and move out of it also by January - when we'll be moving into our own and considerably larger abode! So this way we avoid the extra move and see to it that we're all a lot closer to each other than we've been since August.
Because this appartment was rented furnished it had no extra beds the kids could use, and there was just no way I could get "real beds" to fit in the living room. But it's not quite so bad. It'll be our little camp out!
I got the kids two inflatable beds that are nicely tucked away in the living room corner.
Julia's eating chair is also an inflatable contraption that will come in handy on the many trips we'll be taking around our new little neck of the northern european woods!
Tuesday, 19. September 2006, 00:25:24
home, sam, me
Sam and I, restfully playing and watching cartoons on TV this morning after my "ordeal" (read previous post) at the Health Centre.
Wednesday, 23. August 2006, 01:39:54
family, home, samuel, julia
Still unwilling to give up our second bedroom that currently serves as the 'puter room: filled with 2 large desks holding mainly dust and paper piles, 2 desktops, 3 laptops, 2 large 17'' monitors, a small dual color monitor we really don't need or use, a printer, a scanner, wireless router, 2 sets of speakers, cable modem, mobile handsets and chargers and an incredible amount of empty cd cases and naked cds lying about.
Yes the room is a mess, but it's ours, Sam is not allowed in the room unsupervised! There are no toys laying about on the foor or the couch! This is currently the last stand of two computer geeks turned parents and they will not easly let it go! 
That said, you may now understand why Sam's bedroom has now become the kids' room! That and the fact we want him to get used to share his things and his space with his sister, have contributed to the decision that for some more 2 or 3 years they will share the same room.
And so with less than 7 weeks left untill he is joined by his sister we have bought him a new, "big boy" bed and got new matching bed linen and window drapes.
WIDGETIZE