Loads happening.....

Yes indeed there are loads of things keeping me busy these days.

First Sara is back home for a visit. She came Tuesday evening and will stay until Saturday. She was missing us too much (NOT!) No, she had to finish off her last 4 days at her job over here. She will go back to Aarhus on Saturday and has some interviews lined up for next week. Hopefully something will come of them. Meanwhile she has signed up with an agency who will ring her when a business needs a temp for a day or two, so she could working in a shop, restaurant, hotel, kinder garden....and the list could go on!

She loves her new apartment and loves the city. There is also an other attraction over there, his name is Christian. They have been seeing each other for a few months now. He seems like a really great fella,so lets see what the future holds for them....

Yesterday Sara rang me around 2pm and asked where I was. She then went on to tell me that our neighbour`s daughter was up at our place with her friend who had closed her wee finger on the bathroom door, part of the finger was off!!! Yuk!!!!!

I had to smile though when she said, "Mum you have got to get home and take her to the hospital, we need an adult here!"  (Sara you are now an adult!! haha) Anyway Sara did a great job with the two girls. (They are 13 years old.) An ambulance came and took them to the hospital. Sara spent the afternoon there till their parents turned up. 

I,meanwhile, spent yesterday afternoon at the house. I went straight there from work. The man came to put down the carpet in Leah´s room. So Leah´s room is nearly ready for things to be moved in. I only need to clean the windows and wash the inside of the wardrobe. 

While the man was putting the carpet down I decided to try and take the tiles of the kitchen wall. It was actually really easy. They came off with no problem. Kristian came by after work and I was hoping we could get more things done but  unfortunately he was feeling rotten. He had a sore throat and was aching all over. So we went home. Bit of a set back but we will not panic! at least not yet!!

He is still filling rotten today so he is lying here on the sofa feeling sorry for himself and annoyed because he is "burning daylight" when he could be at the house organizing things!

Leah is also sick, so she has been at home today with Kristian. Her throat is also sore and her body is aching too. (Great!!)

Andrew had his first driving lesson today! He started a few weeks ago attending classes for his driving licence. They have spent the first few weeks going through the theory. His theory classes continue every Tuesday. He also had his compulsory First Aid class a few weeks back. Now it´s the practical part, the fun part - getting out and driving. Today was his first lesson and he will continue to have the practical lessons every Thursday.  He is loving it. It´s great that he is doing this now.

Ok I better get off here. Our friend Jeff (from the Emerald Isle) is arriving tonight and staying with us until Wednesday. I have a bedroom to get sorted out for him so I really better stop all this blogging. 

Slowly but surely....

...things are progressing slowly but surely over at the new place. We took a break from the house this weekend. Kristian was at a go-kart race and our apartment here was in desperate need of a clean up, so my weekend was spent clearing up here at home. 

Today, however we were back over at the house....

 Kristian got the front painted.

 I did what I could to help him....

In the end though I had to get up and do something. 

 We started to take the kitchen apart to get ready for a newer one.

 Leah´s horrible carpet also came off today. The new carpet is coming on Wednesday.

The carpet in the livingroom also disappeared. Next week the floor will be sanded and polished.

Yes things are moving in the right direction. 

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today my dad turned 79 years old! Happy Birthday Dad from all of us. Here is a wee video espeically for you......

Kristian and Sara send their love. They are at a go-kart weekend on the other side of Denmark. They are thinking of you too even though they couldn´t be a part of the video.:-)

A house in Tuscany....

Have you ever seen the movie, "Under the Tuscan Sun"? Well, it is one of my favorite movies. It´s about a woman who buys an old run down house in Tuscany and renovates it. A lot of other things happen in the film but I especially love  it because of the old house that gets transformed. 

Tonight I was feeling a bit like the girl from the film! We went over to clean up our new place and to do a bit of work on it. It has been such a fun evening!  

Kristian started to take down the old, horrible cupboards that were in the bathroom. 

 There was a cupboard in the kitchen that went into the bathroom. The walls were actually just made of that plastic sticky back stuff you put on your cupboards to make them look like wood.....there was no MDF or whatever it is you use to make walls! 

My hubby worked really hard!

 I also did a bit of work myself. The outside of the hosue was covered in cobwebs and needed a good cleaning. I got the cobwebs brushed away and the window and door washed down... 

The hall walls also got washed.

There is still along way to go but so far we are enjoying ourselves. We hope to put in an Ikea kitchen!! Now that will be a challenge has we have no idea what to do! 

In the film I mentioned earlier, the girl had Polish carpenters to help her with all the work. She just cooked food for them....Ummmmh maybe that is something we should consider. Well, watch this space and follow our renovations....we only have 6 weeks before we move in! YIKES!!! :-)

On the move....

...Sara is on the move! She is moving to the other part of Denmark and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the day when all her furniture is being taken over to her new place. Her friend has bought an apartment and Sara is renting a room there. She is so excited! She will go with the moving van tomorrow and stay a week in the town of Aarhus. She has some interviews lined up, so hopefully she will soon have a job there. After a week she will come back here and finish off her work over here.

So the weekend has been spent clearing out and packing. It is sooo amazing what Sara had in that small bedroom of hers! 

In the middle of all the packing chaos, we had our niece Annie visiting.We discovered that Annie had never been to Ikea. She is the same age as Leah, so Aunty here had to make sure she experienced Ikea! We drove in Saturday afternoon and had a great time  well, I had a great time dreaming and planning. We bought absolutely nothing.

Sunday afternoon we headed over to our new home. We got the keys on Sunday so we decided to head over look around the place and plan a little. While there we decided we might as well start our first job, taking off the living room floor. 

 Leah and Mia had a picnic with crisps and dip before we got to work.

 Laura arrived with ice cold Fanta to us all! Delicious! Just what we needed on a hot Sunday afternoon!

We decided to eat dinner together - Pizza on the living room floor. Such fun!!

 Laura had gotten us all a wee present! Tools for the garden!! haha We LOVED them! 

I really think we are going to enjoy living out there. It still feels so right and I have such a peace about it all. So different from all the other houses we looked at over the years, there was never any peace and probably the reason why we never moved to any of them.

It has been a crazy few days and it just looks like it is going to get crazier!!! I´m loving it though (at least at the minute.) We are getting all the paper work done for moving, got the internet set up for the new place from the middle of September. Slowly but surely things are getting done. We even finished getting the carpet off on Sunday! 

A friend, Strawberry cake and Ikea....

...life just can´t get any better than this!

After work today I went to visit my friend Rhona. She had bought the most delicious strawberry cake. We had a lovely hour together, sitting in her garden eating cake and catching up with each others lives. It was really great seeing her again! The time always goes by too quickly when I visit her, today was no exception!

So after a really lovely afternoon it was home to make dinner. There was no one home when I arrived there, this was rather strange as there is always someone around this place. Where were they all? Well ,Leah was down helping her friend re-arrange her room. Andrew started school today so he had not arrived home yet. Sara was working, she had a late shift and Kristian still hadn´t arrived home from work. So I spent a good 45 minutes out on the balcony drawing up how our furniture should be in our new living room. (such fun!!!!) Before long though, the peace was gone and Andrew and Kristian came through the door followed shortly after by an exhausted Leah who had moved furniture around all afternoon with her friend, she had drilled holes in walls to put up shelves, and the shelves hadn´t fallen down! WOW what a real wee handy woman we have!

Sara came home around 7.30pm and was in a panic. She is moving too. She will move to the other side of  Denmark to a town called Aarhus. She will live in an apartment that her friend has bought. Sara will rent a room from her. Her friends furniture is being moved over there on Tuesday and Sara can also get her stuff moved too. She was in a panic because she needed a few big things for her move. So guess where I ended up this evening??!!! Back at Ikea!! Honestly I should have shares in that place!

Sara got what she needed for the move. Now all she needs is a job!! She is waiting to hear from a few places. If she gets one of these jobs she will move in a week or so, if not she will wait until October. 

Life is just a little crazy at the moment...everything is happening at once! But I am not complaining I am finding it all very exciting!