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Thursday, March 8, 2007

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Dylan

I loved this picture we got of Dylan on Sunday down by the lake. It is hard to get a 'normal' picture of him without him making a face.

A package from Oregon arrived yesterday, much to the delight of two boys. There were all kinds of goodies in there, including two boxes of quaker oatmeal maple and brown sugar. They polished off one box by evening.

My two lunch customers. They ordered a sandwich and a bowl of veggies. I hope they leave a hefty tip. (reality check--do dirty dishes count as a tip?)

Monday, March 5, 2007

A week in the snow (and rain)

TV Eyes

This was at the Verkehrshaus, a transportation museum in Lucerne. One of our rainy day plans.

No, Eugene was not with us, but we got stuck anyway. The snowplow driver was happy to give us a tug.

Snow bunny

Old fashioned VDB music makers

sleeping loft

Simon, Eric and Jael

Hannes with the train set at his Ralph's cousins' place. Their dad is a train engineer.

Hannes

Our chalet at dusk

Keeping hold of Dylan

Barbara, chief cook

I have been gone from this site for a week...now we are back and reality has already hit! It was a beautiful Monday and the boys were both excited to go back to school so what more could I want?! We visited a pretty place called Axalp, where we were able to ski for two out of the seven days we were there. We shared a chalet with some of our good friends, Ralf and Barbara and their three kids, Simon, Jael and Eric. There was a sleeping loft upstairs for the 5 older kids and Liam slept in a little room off of ours. Axalp isn't high enough to have missed out on the unusual late winter rains, so we had a little rain to contend with. We had some bad weather alternative plans though, and it worked out well. Hannes and Simon are pretty much done with the kids slopes. Dylan, Jael and Eric are still needing a little more time on them but made lots of progress. Ralph fashioned a rubber strap to keep Dylan from disappearing down the hill too quickly.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Dad

Dad is great...gives us the chocolate cake....The boys love to do things with Ralph. Today at lunch they came up with the idea that I should leave for a week so they could have Boy's Week. They do 'Boy's Night' when I go away in the evening EVERY ONCE in awhile. This usually means sausage for dinner and not many vegetables, building with their legos until bedtime and then all falling asleep in our bed until I get home. They have even started to compose a song that goes something like, best night of the week, mama's gone to town...la la la. So the Boy's Week suggestion came up and they didn't think it would be sad if there was nobody here when they got home from school, or anyone to take care of them. So it looks like I have been made redundant. Anybody need a mom? Or actually I can think of one or two things I might like to do if I had one week to myself. I am sure I wouldn't think of them at all...the first hour....sigh. A stack of books (chosen by me of course) and a warm beach with nobody on it except that person who is bringing me a fruity drink and then disappearing. Maybe a girlfriend or two so we can talk about our husbands and kids...anybody interested in coming along?

Recent projects

This is the armoire that Ralph was sanding outside the other day. It is now in our 'stairs room' as pantry storage space. This gives a little idea of where the spiral stairs go up to the first floor. Just beyond the white Liam gate is the kitchen. Right now we are working on Hannes and Dylan's room. The ceiling was very dark, making the whole room dark so we are painting it and the walls. I guess this is the before pic. The after will hopefully follow soon!