We`ve got the ew appartment! Well. it is not the one looked at at first hand ut it is even better. So thank you all or vibing us!

We are looking for a new appartement. There is a special we would so like to get. Four rooms, bath with tube, kitchen, garage, cellar. A bit smaller than ours is right now but much cheaper. Nce house, nice neighbours, tidy.
Please, ladies, vibe us! We want, want, want to move to that place!

Oh, so much has been going on. I start to work next tuesday (as monday is a holiday), the dream of a day care for children under three years together with a friend of mine came true! Here is where I will work:

It is on the backyard, so we have space and room in a save place.
Funny enough it is near to where I lived until last year. To be true it is three houses away. It feels so strange to bring back things I brought to our appartement here and to bring them the same way back (like my vacuum cleaner).
As the weather has become fine, almost like summer, we spand the last weekend in our garden. We are so lucky! We can sleep in the hut (I call it the "Chalet" )

This is blossoming at our hut:

DD and DSS enjoy the garden a lot. Playing in fresh air is so great!

DD will be three next week! She has grown su much. It is amazing how smart she is. And how rascally. I wish I could translate all the things she says.

I am upset. Some people are just stupid. No, not stupid, but mean.

I do not know why, but I was thinking of you and your family this past days. I hope all is fine with you all. Maybe I just missed your comments, but as your last blog was about you looking for Motormouth, I think it a bit funny that she is around here quite a lot now and you seemed to have vanished. Please, keep us updated, will you?

Malin just wanted her feet measured. Her's are about 14-15 cm long and have on the highest point a diameter of 15 cm.
Mine are 23 cm long and have a diameter of 23 cm.
So, how are yours? lol

Reading Carol's and Mommymash's blogs I remembered my visit to New Hampshire. It was in 1987, a warm summer and we (my mom and me) spend three weeks with my great-aunt in Laconia.
She wasn't reaaly my great-aunt but she was the widow of my mother's uncle. She came to Hannover (Germany!) at the end of the war, she was born in the Ucraina. All her family was dead, shot by russians. She saw it from her hide.

So, today DD and I went to the swimming hall. In the hope that we will go there quite often I bought a card for ten times (KWIM?). And a water/swim diaper for Malin. It's a real one nto one to be thrown away after use. It has little pirates and pirate bears on it, it is really cute, but because of that everyone thinks DD is a boy. *grin*
We spend there two hours splashing and palying and relaxing. It was much fun. There some other children there but all of them left quite soon.

This is to all beaker fans!

DD and I enjoyed it sooooo much.

This year in May it is 19 years that Jim Henson died. I just watched the Mupets Celebration for Jim Henson which makes me laugh ("He was our clerk") and cry (when they start reading the letters) ever again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLnyK7DG0CA
So, who is your favorite Muppet?
Mine is - let's see: Kermit, for being wise and funny and curious. Miss Piggy, for being gorgeous and strong and glamorous. Gonzo, for being crazy. Oscar, for being himself. The Beast, born to be wild. Big Bird, I love him. And all of those monsters, all of them.

Today we got the news that DD's godfather has died. The coroner said that he died probably around january 4th. The cause was a probably second stroke. He fell victim to his old devil alcohol. It took until january 21th that neighbours called the police because the TV didn't stop.
I send him a letter in the beginning of january to tell him the latest news of DD, I don't think he got this letter. I am so sad, I really liked him. His plans failed, he had so hoped to see his sons more often. He couldn't return to work and was so depressed. No friends within his reach.

In the last Weleda news there was an article about synesthetic. It was so fascinating! I cannot imagine what it would feel like to SEE music or sounds or to HEAR colors. I would like to see a film about that (DC ?). Has anybody here such experiences? I am so curious!

I just took a deeper look in denessasma's blog and found her description of her DD's sassiness (in april). I thought I read my own blog!
DD is such a strong person, she's got such a strong will and she is testing our boundaries almost every day. And she is 2y and 8m. I find it so hard to keep my authority up and in the last month I more and more often loose my nerves and my temper. I confess, one day i was so angry, I pushed her so she fell on her knees. I am so sorry. She wasn't hurt but she cried and cried and cried. I would so like to be more gentle but mostly I feel so tired.

I will sit in front of the computer and watch it. Some journalist here compared the last four years with GWB with a winter's sleep. He said US were now awakening to a new spring!

So, let's see if it works...

Cottage Cheese is so yummy!

Dancing on the bed with her favorite doll.

I never experienced PPD, thanks for that. But I know such fantasies as other described them, if even in a milder form. And I was asking myself, what are these fantasies good for? Here is what I figured out:

In pregnancy senses sharpen to sort out bad food. So things would smell fool or taste fool or will cause nausea. That is for protecting mother and child. Right?

Beside her being a bit bitchy sometimes (because she's got such a strong will) she can be soooooo sweet!
Cottage cheese is so yummy!
And I feel much more relaxed today as I felt yesterday.

Brainymom, you are on my mind all this winter. I so hope you have found a save and warm place for you and your family.
Has any of you news of her?
That's one reason Thunder made me angry. Brainymom is (or was, let's hope) in real need for help and support.

As DD has made her pooh for ten times in her potty she got a new book. Minerva Louise at School. I love it. Especially where the farmer hangs his laundry to dry... So fun!
Are there more books with that chicken?

Now I have opened my internet-shop! But not on etsy because the y do not not accept paypal. And I have neither creditcard nor debitcard. So it is on dawanda.com. here is the full adress:

http://Aurinel.dawanda.com/

Just take a look, please. I made all the descriptions in english as well but maybe someone could check it for faults.
Thank you!

My wishes for you all for the New Year:

May peace and love fill you
May peace and love sorround you
May a wish you didn't know of come true
May there be laughter every day
May your creativness be like a fountain
May you be blessed by Godfather, Mother Earth, the Universe or whom you believe in or even better by all of them

Call me crazy, stupid, whatever.
We stopped with the vaginal ring because we no longer had sex. That was the first sunday in advent. We had sex the next monday and wednesday. So a week ago. Already tuesday morning I felt pregnant. Is that possible? In the very beginning of the cycle? I feel tired, I feel nauseous sometimes. And I am convinced I'm pregnant. I consider making a test next week. Or would it better to wait if the next menstrual period should come?
Does anybody know?
I would so love to be preggo. Vibe me!

When you read the cristmas story in the bible you (as a mom) will miss one thing: No one speaks of the midwife.

Malin was born almost two and a half year ago. Now I think it's time to write down her/our birth story.
I had planned things completly different from what happened. I wanted a waterbirth but I got no chance.

Dear, how are you doing? I am thinking a lot of you these days. Hope you are well.