What a week!!

Yes, it has been quite a week in the Rasmussen household! From locking my keys in the car, to washing my mobile telephone and nearly trampling the cat to death!(whole other story for another time!) I didn´t think things could get much worse....how wrong I was!

On Tuesday evening Sara came home feeling totally rotten. It was her throat - again!! She gets a sore throat every 6 weeks or so. Usually a day or two in bed and she is then back on her feet again. (We sometimes go to the doctor when it happens, however we are always told the same thing. "it´s a virus, we can´t do anything, just drink warm tea.")This time was different. I have never seen her soooo sick.

She had fever. The glands on the side of her neck were so swollen you could see them sticking out. Her left ear was totally closed. At 5am she woke me, she could hardly swallow. Her tonsils were soooo swollen. I rang the emergency doctor but was told to contact my own doctor in the morning, so that´s what I did. We got an appointment. By this time Sara could only open her mouth half way. They checked her throat but there was no bacteria there, however something in her blood count was high, which showed infection. So we were sent to the hospital for more blood tests. They wanted to rule out Mononukleose. We were sent home with the instructions that if things got worse we should contact the hospital. (Oh by the way the blood tests showed that it wasn´t Mononukleose.)

Well things did get worse. I was at the dentist and when I came home Sara couldn´t open her mouth or swallow her spit. She was sitting with a bowl letting her spit run into it (gross - I know!!) Kristian has been on a course all week, so he came home to all this chaos! I rang the hospital and was told to come in with her right away. She was then kept in.

It turns out she had a boil at the back of her throat behind her swollen tonsils. They were worried that it would block her windpipe and make breathing difficult. This morning they were finally able to burst it, which was rather digusting!!! She has also been getting penicillin and this evening is on the mend! She is feeling alot better. Her tonsils are still swollen but she was finally able to eat a little food this evening. First time since Tuesday afternoon. Hopefully she will get home tomorrow.

In the middle of all this I had an appointment at the dentist and a bit of good news. The tooth that was cracked and needed a crown was not "dead " after all. When she got down to the roots she could see that it was looking good. So there was no root treatment and a crown was not needed, at least not at the moment. She was able to do a plastic filing, so I saved about £800!! A wee miracle in the middle of everything. I go again next week for the next bit of work that needs done on the right side.

Tomorrow I head off for the weekend. Right after work I head to the other side of Denmark for a Children Workers Conference. It happens every two years here in Denmark and it´s years ago since I have been to one. I am really looking forward to it. Eight of us from church are going so it should be fun. Hopefully we will get loads of ideas and inspiration! But I must admit I am feeling tired. This is the third weekend in a row that I have had a full programme! And my week days haven´t been much better. My house hasn´t be cleaned for 3 weeks!! hahaha So I know what Kristian will be doing this weekend while I am gone! It´s wonderful that I get to go away and he gets to do the housework and shopping:-) Life is good!

Good news....

...I put my phone on the radiator Sunday evening, and left it there until Monday evening. Last night on my way to bed I thought I would try it. It worked!!!

I now have a unique phone screen. You feel like you are swimming under the sea, looking at coral reefs when you look at my screen. But I don´t care, as long as it works, and it does! I can ring, text, go on facebook and use my alarm. Aaaahhhh life is good again! hahaha

What is happening to me!??????

......is it lack of sleep? Is it too much to do and not enough time to do it all in? Or is it just stupidity? I´ll let you be the judge!

I have been away on a fantastic weekend with the kids from church. It was our musical weekend. We had soooo much fun practising songs, rehearsing lines and making backgrounds.There was just such a wonderful atmosphere from start to finish. Today was the big day. They would preform in church and they were so nervous and excited as they waited for the curtain to open. They did such a good job. It was really a successful weekend.

So when church was finished I thought I could be home by 1.30pm at the latest. However things don´t always go as planned! I went out to the car to get something from the boot. I opened the boot, set my keys down, found what I needed and closed the boot. The moment I closed the boot I realised my keys were inside and the rest of the car was locked. Aarrrrrghhhhhhh! I tried to break in! No success. I got others to try and break in! Still no success, so there was nothing else for it but to get the train home. I was able to get Leah a ride home, she was sooo tired.

I started to head for home only to discover that I had just missed a bus and it would be another hour before one came. I decided to walk it to the station instead. Half an hour later I was at the station. A quick train ride and then another 20 minutes walk and I finally reached home at 3pm!

( Are some of you asking "Where was Kristian, why didn´t you go home with him? Why didn´t you ring him? Well Kristian was away on the other side of Denmark and would first be home this evening. More about that might come in a later post!)

Then this evening I decided to do some washing. I needed some jeans washed for work tomorrow. I took off the jeans I was wearing and threw them into the wash, Kristian had come home and he was going to take me up to church to get my car. I was rushing about trying to get the wash on before going out with him to the church. I managed to gather a bunch of clothes. I then popped my jeans in among them and I started the machine. I was all proud of my self for being so effective! (Pride always comes before a fall!!) Off I went to collect my car.

Then about ½ hour ago I put my jeans in the dryer only to discover that my mobile phone was still in the back pocket of my jeans!!! ( The phone I am still paying for!!!) Aarrrrrghhhhhhh!!! (I seem to be saying that a lot today!! haha) Yes I washed my phone!!! Aaarrrgghhhhhhhh again!!!

What else can go wrong today??? I´m not sticking around to find out. Off to bed I go before I can do anymore damage! Good night all:-)

A busy weekend awaits.....

yes, it´s a busy weekend for me. I am off with a group of kids from the church. We are having a musical weekend. We are doing the story of Joseph. I am really looking forward to it. It is going to be fun:-)

The kids arrive late Friday afternoon and then the fun begins! We have songs to practise, dances to rehearse, and drama parts to figure out in between all the other things. We are going to be busy. We have from Friday evening until Sunday morning, then on Sunday morning we perform for the whole church. YIKES!!! WILL WE BE READY!???

On Wednesday we started to get some bits and pieces together for the weekend. We needed to make a well for Joseph to be put down. We were wondering how on earth we could do that, when we spotted one of the toys from our mother and toddlers group. A fisherprice climbing frame with slide. We got an idea. The slide came off, the climbing frame got packed in and with a lick of paint it ended up looking like........

......a well. Well I hope you think it looks like a well!! It´s the perfect size for Joseph to be thrown into. I think this weekend is going to be fun!!

Mixed emotions....

So last weekend was filled with all sorts of mixed emotions.

I suppose it started on Friday. I was booked to go to the dentist at noon for a thorough check up of my awful teeth. What on earth was I doing going to the dentist when I had no pain?!! This was ME going of my own free will!! Was I crazy?! These and many more thoughts went through my mind as I got myself ready for the dreaded moment.

Well, glad to say, I survived the visit. She gave me a thorough going over and cleaned my stinky teeth. She told me everything that needed done (now that part I didn´t like!) and said she would send me a letter informing me about how much everything would cost.

The visit to the dentist had not been bad at all! I left there a happy woman, not to mention a little proud (but in a good way!) haha. I had faced my fears and was still around to tell the tale. (oh, ok I know I am a little dramatic!!)

Friday evening Kristian and I had been invited out to our friends, Merete and Palle

for dinner. We had the most delicious food - Shrimp soup, followed by fish and new potatoes done in their skin with a parsley sauce. We ate far too much as usual! It was a lovely relaxing evening, one we really enjoyed.

Saturday morning saw us up at 7.30am and we are NEVER up at 7.30am on a Saturday morning! But we were on a Mission! Kristian´s brother Anders has sold his farm (sob, sob, sob) and they were having a jumble sale to get rid of the last things that were lying around. We were going down to help.

There was all sorts of things to buy. From horse equipment to washing machines.....

Toys, to old chairs and TV sets.

People came and went....some bought things, others didn´t. We were a bit disappointed that there wasn´t a huge amount of people all at the one time, we wanted to be busy all day long. But we weren´t. In the end Lis and I went inside and started to pack things in boxes ready for the move. Kristian and Anders watched "the shop."

I was sad leaving them on Saturday evening. This was our last time there. That farm has soooo many precious memories for us. Many special times have been had there with all of Kristian´s family. Many special times have been had there by us as a family. (We have had quite a few family holidays on the farm. We looked after their animals while they went on holiday. We loved it.)

Ah well, a new house awaits with new memories to be made.

That evening, when we arrived home, there was a letter waiting from my dentist. Now at first, Kristian and I thought it was a bill for the work she had already done on my teeth. The price in the letter being 13947,63kr!! (about £1550!!) BUT.... Kristian and I read it as 1394,763 (about £155!) "Well, that isn´t too bad" said Kristian "No, it´s not, I thought for sure it would have been more" I answered him. (Kristian went off to the loo!)

I then looked more closely at the letter and realised it was a quote telling me how much everything that I needed done would cost. My lightening quick brain, realised that something was not right! The numbers on the top of the page did not add up to just 1394,763. It was then I realised what the real price was!! SHOCK AND HORROR followed!

That was not the end. Behind that quote was another quote. The above quote was only for work that needed done immediately!! The other quote was for work needing done within the next 2-3 years. It was for.....wait for it.....17100,kr (about £1900) SHOCK AGAIN!!!

I am seriously considering going toothless!! I could get a wonderful new piano for that money! (Dad leave me your teeth in your will, - will you?!! haha)

So that was my weekend of mixed emotions!!

(Kristian now wishes he had checked out my mouth first, before he agreed to marry me!! haha)

Home from home....

Where exactly is home?

I am home again from home, if you get my drift! We arrived back in Denmark last night at 9.30pm and Kristian was there to pick us up. It was great to see him and Andrew again. Now I just have to settle back to life here again. Good job I have a few days holidays left for that.

Today I decided I would clear up and clear out things here at home. I sorted out my bookc case, sorted out my desk cupboards and drawers, all my teaching stuff plus all our videos and dvds. I also got some cupboards in the kitchen organised too. It sure felt good. Still more sorting out to do tomorrow.

Then this evening I settled down to watch a DVD. It was a film I picked up cheap a while back. I knew nothing about the film but I was not disappointed.

"Fried Green Tomatoes" is the name of the film. It´s about a woman called Evelyn who meets an old woman in an nursing home and develops a friendship with her. At each visit Evelyn hears, from the old lady, stories from her past. The old lady shares an amazing story about a friendship between two girls called Ruth and Idgie. Hearing the story changes Evelyns life. It is really a wonderful film! It will bring a smile to your face, and at times a tear to your eye. Totally recommend it. It is one film that I will watch again. If you liked "The Notebook" you will like this too.