Almost weekend!

Where has this week gone!?! Already tomorrow, it is Friday. In 3 weeks time I will be stopping work for 4 ½ weeks. I can hardly wait! This year we are heading down to Austria for one of the weeks to a place called Rauris. We were there 3 years ago - Andrew and Leah loved it so they suggested that we go back again.  Since Kristian and I loved the place too, it wasn´t hard for them to talk us into it. We invited Kristian´s mum to come along with us and she said yes! (Sara is going to Italy with Christian and his family)  I am so looking forward to having my mother-in-law there with us! We will drive down and stay in a beautiful apartment overlooking the valley.

Dette billede af Schonblick Mountain Resort & Spa stilles til rådighed af TripAdvisor
Dette billede af Schonblick Mountain Resort & Spa stilles til rådighed af TripAdvisor
Dette billede af Schonblick Mountain Resort & Spa stilles til rådighed af TripAdvisor

While we are gone Laura (our neighbour) has an American family coming to visit so they will stay in our house. 

Meanwhile the time is flying by and we are all getting older! This especially applies to my cousin Lorraine. It was her birthday yesterday 12th June. I wanted to do something fun for her so I made up a song for her last night and made a video of me performing it. However, this took forever and so while I was editing it, I kept falling asleep. In the end I had to give up, I was just too tired. I did however get the video finished this evening and uploaded to Facebook. You can also see the result below....

Then today I met up with my friend Rhona for our Strawberry Cake date! It was just such a fantastic afternoon! It went by far too fast. We talked none stop for almost 3 hours and I went home on a total high. I am more and more thankful for the wonderful people God has put in my life, and Rhona is one of those! 

The Strawberry cake was delicious as always! This time we were bad. Normally we just buy a small cake for one person....it´s like a slice of cake. But today they had a bargin - a large strawberry cake that would feed 4 people, going for nearly half the price. We couldn´t resist that so we bought a whole cake and sat and ate it. (It could have been worse....we could have bought a whole cake each!!!)

I left the house this morning at 6.30am and returned this evening at 6.30pm!

Then Sara rang this evening to tell me something. She started crying and said "I am ok, just wanted to tell you what happened today."

Sara works on the third floor in a shoe shop. Today she was busy with a customer but noticed two young fellas come up the stairs, she said hi to them and went to get the other customer the shoes she wanted. However out in the storage room she didn´t have the size she needed so she decided to go upstairs to another storage floor. It was then she thought something might be wrong...

She saw a coke bottle sitting on the stairs that hadn´t been there earlier, then she smelled men´s perfume. When she got to the top of the stairs and turned into the storage room she saw these two boys filling bags with shoes. She reacted and shouted at them and they took off towards the back stairs and entrances. Sara took off after them. One got down the stairs and out the door but the other one Sara got a hold of, however he stumbled and so did she and they both took a tumble down the stairs. Sara then realised that no one had heard her scream as she fell and now she was alone with this guy so she thought of her safety and backed off, he however was scared and ran from her, but not before she got the bag with the stolen shoes off him. He got away with nothing, however his friend got away with 2 or 3 pairs of shoes that probably cost 100 pounds each. 

She was ok, just a bit shaken when she finally realised what had happened. She hurt her hand when she took the tumble and her little finger is blue and swollen. If it is no better tomorrow she will go and get it checked at the hospital. Thank God that she is ok! 

There is never a dull moment!

Love is in the air.....

yes...love is in the air here in our wee home. Andrew met a girl a few weeks ago and has been on quite a few dates with her over the last few weeks. Today he wanted us to meet her. Her name is Camilla and she seems like a really lovely girl. She came to lunch and stayed a little of the afternoon.

After lunch Andrew decided they should go a walk as he wanted to show her the lake. Now Andrew has NEVER been a walk down to the lake. He has never been interested in going with us, but suddenly there is a girl involved and a romantic walk to the lake sounds wonderful!! Even though I explained to him how to get there, they never found it! haha Andrew has no sense of direction!

One thing is for sure,  it´s weird seeing my son all romantic with a girl!!!!! So let´s see how things go with Camilla.....I´ll keep you posted!

On Saturday I was in the place that I love - IKEA!!  My friend Jette has been wanting to go to Ikea for weeks. She is moving to a new house in August and wanted to go in and dream. I was only too willing to go along and dream with her. We had a wonderful afternoon together planning, chatting and dreaming. 

Relaxation......

On Wednesday it was Father´s day here in Denmark. Since it was also Constitution day we were off work and school. (Although poor Andrew was not. While the rest of us slept, he was up at the crack of dawn getting ready for school.)

Leah and I had planned a little surprise for Kristian. Leah sent him a text message late Tuesday evening telling him that he needed to be ready for 10.30am the next morning. 

At 10.30am the next morning we headed to one of the towns close to us, to a cafe for brunch. Leah and I had been there before and enjoyed it so much, so she wanted her dad to experience it too. It was his Father´s day gift from her. 

We had such a delicious brunch and a cosy time together. 

It was then home to relax. The day was glorious! It was so wonderful to have a day off in the middle of the week. We spent the rest of the day relaxing, me lying on a blanket in the garden reading a book and Krisitan by working around the place doing wee odd jobs. Leah had to study, as she had an exam the next day. 

From this to that....

Ten years ago when Leah started school she looked like this......

On Friday it was her last day at school and she looked like this......

She had a great last day at school. 

I love the way the Danes celebrate that day. The kids that are leaving get all dressed up in a fun way. They meet up for breakfast and then take over the school!! They run around throwing caramel sweets at all the kids in their classes, making a lot of noise as they go. Then they put on a show for the  whole school and make fun with the teachers that they have had through the years. Then those that want, go to the football field for a water and shaving foam fight.

Later in the day Leah met up with her class again, at one of her friend`s home. There they had dinner together before going to a party for all the 9th graders, from all the schools in our town. She really did have a great day!

Then this weekend our flower bed went from looking like this....

to looking like this...

While I cleaned the inside of the house, Kristian worked on the outside. Then I went food shopping and when I came home it was a totally different flower bed! 

With me being gone he had the opportunity to get rid of one of the plants that I wanted to keep!!! Kristian, Andrew, Leah, Laura and Mia all agreed that it was an awful looking plant/tree and decided that while I was gone they would get rid of it!!! I loved that plant/tree, whatever it was, because it looked so sad and miserable! haha 

Kristian was ready to take the one in the corner, just under the bird tree, out too. I managed to safe its life, at least for another week!

Now the big question is - what do we do with the flower bed. My friend Rhona is helping me with this, she is at this time, figuring out what we should buy for the flower bed, but now Rhona you have to hear the latest!!! Kristian just wants to sow grass!!!! Maybe put down a few more tiles so that the path under the window is wider and then just make a little flower bed by the fence and grass on the rest. What do think Rhona?  What do you others that read this blog think??? (please feel free to leave a comment!)

Should we sow grass? Should we keep the big flower bed? Should we make a smaller flower bed? Should we just put down more tiles (what is the English word?? Is it tiles? In Danish it is fliser and we have loads of them piled up against the garage wall that we can just use.)

So we are thinking about different ideas these days and have absolutely no idea what we should do. I think we maybe should just keep the big flower bed, but yet not totally sure.  I am not really a garden person. I would rather just sit and read in it instead of work in it! 

(Having said that, if you Rhona, have drawn up a plan for the big flower bed I will gladly use it! Then the problem is solved...we keep the big flower bed! :-)

He also got the flower bed just outside our front door cleared up too and the drain pipe fixed. All in all a very productive weekend! 

Today Kristian, Leah and I have free, but poor Andrew has to go to college. It is Constitution Day and it has been so wonderful to be able to sleep long when I usually am up at 6am! 

It is also Father´s day today so Leah and I have a wee surprised planned for Kristian! (And my thoughts are with my dad who was a really wonderful dad!) 

The sun is shining and it looks like a beautiful day so good morning to you all. It is time to leave this warm cosy bed and start the day!

Family day....

Last Saturday was our yearly family day out with all of Kristian´s family. This year it was his older brother Anders who arranged it.

Anders works for Danish City Buses, so he hired a city bus for the day, for us all to travel in. We had a fantastic day! We travelled down south to Knuthenborg Safari Park. With great company and good food you just can´t go wrong.....

 We took our yearly family photo only this year Kristian´s brother Søren, wife Lene and son Philip were not in it, along with Sara and her cousin Christine - so the family was not totally complete. They were all missed! (In the photo above we are all standing in order of our age.)

Even though the weather forecast promised loads of rain, we only had a little bit and by the afternoon the sun was out! 

Some more pictures from the day......

Another great day with my lovely Danish family. Love you all!!

Girls night in......

I had invited some of the girls in the  family (the ones that  lived closest to me) home for a girly night. My friend has started working with a business that sells creams and make up along with a lot of other products. She is being trained and so I thought it would be fun to help her out by holding a girly night.

It was sooo much fun!

We all got to try out the products. We cleansed our faces and then we each got to test our skins to see what sort of skin type we had. 

Then it was over into the living room for tea, coffee and cake! Along with some fruit salad for those wanting to be healthy. 

While us girls chatted and laughed Marion (the one running the business) called us over and gave us a individual skin care treatment. 

She also used this amazing wrinkle cream on us all. She put it  on one side of the face, then we had to go over to the living room and ask the girls which side the cream was on. It was amazing the difference it made....you could really see that it worked. The wrinkles were less. (It however was a little exspensive, so it is a cream I want to save up for!) 

There was a lot of laughter and fun throughout the night and there was an opportunity to buy some of the products if you wanted. I bought a whole skin care product for my face. It had a cleanser, toner, day and night cream.  I am so bad at taking care of my skin so now I have to practice at getting a bed time and morning time routine to look after my face! I am, after all, not getting any younger!