July, August and September 2018

We were on holiday on the other side of Denmark when the offer on our dream home was accepted. We were so shocked, excited and happy that we just decided to cut our holiday short and get back home so we could sign the papers. 

 In the middle of July, we signed the papers and the house was ours. We spent the rest of our holidays at home going on trips with the kids, with friends and sometimes just Kristian and me. 

August came and it was back to work again after a wonderful summer holiday. 

One of the first weekends in August found Leah and I driving to the island of Fyn to babysit for the weekend. Our old neighbours from years back, their daughter was getting married, and since all the family were going to the wedding she needed someone to look after her little son. I said I would do it and took Leah along for support. 

I must admit I was a little nervous. The wee boy had only turned one and he had never seen me in his life. He was going to be staying with me for the weekend and I was feeling for him. I was mentally prepared for a sleepless, hard weekend. I couldn´t have been more wrong.

He took to us like a duck to water. He was as happy as anything and even when his mum walked down the aisle at the church, there was no crying. He just stayed sitting on my knee.  We ended up having a great weekend with him. 

In August we also started to pack. We would get the keys to our new place in the middle of October and we could hardly wait.  

 I started sorting out all our DVDs and photos. We found some precious old photos as we cleared up and packed things away. It felt good to get organised.

                        An old photo of all of Kristian´s brothers and sisters with their wives or husbands.

 We cleared out a lot of stuff that month. 

September came around rather quickly. We had our 28th wedding anniversary on 1st September. It´s so hard to believe that we have been married for so long. It has gone by so fast and what a blast it has been. I would do it all over again with him Kristian - he is just the best! To celebrate Kristian had arranged an evening out. We had the most delicious dinner and walk. 

 We have loads of birthdays in September too and so between birthdays and packing, the month just flew by. 

                              Kristian was the first to hold a birthday.

 Then it was Leah´s turn. She had invited some friends for brunch.

 Sara had a birthday at the end of September but since she lives 4 hours away, we didn´t get to celebrate her face to face. 

The packing really started to come along...

By the end of September, we had pretty much packed most of the house.