Looking Up

This week that started out absolutely horrible, seems to have gotten much better…almost overnight.

The news that my sister is actually coming really made my day/week. We have been planning this for a while, and waiting for tickets to come down. She originally wanted to come in July, but it is so expensive that she managed to switch a few things around and will come for the last week of May.  Because my sister doesn’t have the internet, or a computer, I bought the tickets for her from here online. There were dirt cheap so that she can afford to fly over. Seriously, she saved over 800 dollars! I cannot wait to see her again. It has been 3 years this May since I saw her last.

We also finally got the stupid paper in the mail that we needed for the whole tax thing to get worked out. I really, really hope we get our money back. Our car needs some serious lovin’!

This week the weather has been absolutely gorgeous. Nicholas and I have been outside almost all day long. Mostly riding around the block or playing in the backyard. We even set up his little pool and realized that our boy has grown so much that it is even too little for him! Yesterday I took him for a walk into SmallTown and we ate ice cream and strolled through the streets.

Today is BB’s Mom’s Birthday. So off to the family we go this afternoon. I can’t wait to hear all the summer “assvice” we will get. Woohoo!

Enjoy the sun if you have it!

Excited!!

I just bought my sister’s plane ticket to Germany. She will be here on May 24th! In less than 3 weeks!!!

WOOHOOO!!

Exhausted

Now that the sun have found it’s way into southern Germany I feel busier than ever. We spent the whole weekend out and about. And the week continues to pull us outside with fantastic sun and 26′C.

I have a lot of things running thru my head. Yesterday BB spent most of her work day on the phone fighting for our money the government owes us. All we need is a piece of paper. Who knew that would be so hard to get. It’s been exhausting and hard on both of us.

It looks like my sister could be coming earlier than planned. And while this is fantastic news, I know hard hard it is to get travel things done last minute, let alone getting 3 little kids coordinated and money and bla bla bla. I hope she can put it all together, I am helping her as much as I can from over 6000 kms away.  I can’t wait to see her.

Scouts has been an amazing and exhausting hobby. I have more things planned than ever before, and those are only the important things! My group of kids that I am a leader for, has been planning a tour through our little town. It has been 5 months of hard work and planning and researching for both us leaders and our kids. It is finally coming to a close and other than 2 dress rehearsals we are ready for the public. I am going to be so glad when this is over, it has been extremely exhausting.

Thursday is BB’s Mom birthday and birthday party. I also have an important District Scout Leader meeting right after that. I am not really looking forward to either one. But life is like that sometimes.

Friday night I have another Scout Night, this time with all the Leaders in SmallTown. I have planned a Lu’au and we are going to be doing some BBQing and campfire stuff. I am looking forward to this thing. A really nice fun thing with all these people that I work with and see almost on a weekly if not daily basis.

I have a busy week planned, but the good thing is that my weeks don’t really always look like this. And then again, sometimes I have something every night and it basically means BB comes home, and we just exchange places and keys and out the door I go.

May Day

The first of May is Labour Day here in Germany. And I disappoint my Mom every year when I tell her that we don’t dance around a May Pole. (In fact I think they only really do that in Bavaria anymore, but anyways.)

BB of course was home, so we planned a BBQ up in BB’s parent’s orchards. Nicholas loved it! He ran around and enjoyed having so much room for himself. He had fun picking up the Vineyard snails, trying to find lizards (yes, this part of Germany is so warm we have lizards) and digging in a big ant hill sand pile. BB and I tired ourselves out by running him around on his trike through the grass and we ate delicious hot dogs with that lovely “BBQ black” flavour.

As BB and I were sitting on the picnic blanket, BB turned around to me and said “There is no way we could have had this in Frankfurt, not even in the outskirts of Frankfurt”.  And she is right. It was also her way of saying that we have made the right decision in moving here. This is the best place for a child in Germany to grow up.

We are happy.

20 Things That Make Me Happy

Because I needed a little pick-me-up. I made a little list of my top 20 things that make me happy. And I made on rule, money cannot be on the list.

Here I go:

20. The smell of freshly cut grass.

19. Hot chocolate on a cold night.

18. Lilacs blooming in my backyard.

17. Getting in my bed with fresh sheets.

16. An email from someone I haven’t heard from in a while.

15. Watching a new episode of one of my favourite shows.

14. Hearing a song that brings back good memories.

13. Waking up to see the sunshine when I raise the blinds.

12. Reading a good book.

11. Enjoying a really delicious meal that I cooked myself.

10. Going to a new place for the first time.

9. Eating warm strawberries fresh from the field.

8. Talking to my sister on the phone.

7. Weekends.

6. Cuddling my cats.

5. That feeling I get when I know I have done something right.

4. A hug from someone I love.

3. Spending the day with only BB and Nicholas

and my tie for First Place,

1. BB and Nicholas

Make your own list if you feel like it. I really helped me to feel better, and no matter how many things go wrong in my life, or however many bad days I will have, these 20 things will never let me down.