Monday morning Jason left early to fly back to the states. I was busy making my list of what he needs to bring back (:
I was glad to get the kids back to school after 2 weeks off and lots of traveling, things were a mess here, and we needed groceries. But of course I did have a quick coffee with a friend before starting all of this (:
I went to the dr. today as I wasn't feeling so good. He told me I have a cold and gave me like 4 over the counter medicines to take. Great, back to the tree bark.
I had to pick up the boys about 30 min. early from school today as Sean had an orthodonist appt. He is getting a bit of an overbite. I think his tongue is pushing his front teeth out so I wanted to see what she would have to say. Her children attend the same school as mine too. She said she would recommend one of those retainers that he would have to wear all day and just take out to eat. She said he also has a small crossbite too. So she wants to get a mold done of his mouth and some xrays and take a look at everything and she if she can get a retainer made to take care of all of these problems. She was saying that it is easier now to fix the crossbite b/c his bones around his teeth are still soft. 2 kids already have these types of all day retainers that I know of that are about his age as well. Already into orthodontic appt.'s i yi yi! I am only wondering how much this is going to cost me here.
One of Sean's friends from home sent over her flat stanley for us to take around and take pictures with of things we do with him for her school project. So we started with that today.
Tuesday. Last night Sean asked to sleep in my bed so I let him and I think almost every hour he woke me up making some noise or talking. This isn't going to work out! I am now exhausted and on top of that my cold has gotten worse and I have now lost my voice. So I was whispering to the kids today. The nice thing was they were whispering back not even realizing they were doing it, so it was a little bit quiter.
So guess who is the next one to start with a little just a little British twang?
Amber has started with some of her words or questions sounding a bit British!
I canceled French today since I couldn't talk. I had a lot of things I needed to get done around here with having had break and everyone home and also traveling. But I did need to go get my phone looked at. So I went back to where I bought it and the guy tried looking at it but then said I would need to go to the service center. Luckily it was between there and home. So now comes the embarrassing story, right. Wouldn't be Luxembourg if I could figure things out right!
So I drive over and it is in the bottom of an office building and they have a tiny little lot and of course it is all full. So I see a underground garage. I drive down there and the door is open and I don't see any signs for anything so I go in and take the last spot left in the tiny garage. I barley get the car in the spot and have to suck it in to get out of the car it is that tight. I am walking by the garage door to the stairs and I realize it is now closed. Now I am wondering if I parked in the employee lot? Crap. So I go to the stair case and every floor I can't get out b/c you need a key code to get the door open. So I keep going up. I go up until I reach maybe the 5th or 6th floors and the door is open a bit so I open it and go in. Well I am now standing in the break room of the cell phone employees, crap again! So this woman comes by and I tell her that I am lost and just trying to get to the store downstairs but I parked in the garage and came out up here. She looks at me funny and asks how I got in the garage and on this floor because you need an opener for the garage and a badge to get on the floor. I said I didn't know the doors were open so I went in and there were no signs about anything. So she escorts me in the elevator down to the store. I thank her. So there are no other customers in the store and all the customer spaces were full outside! In the store someone spends about 20 min. looking at my phone and fixing it. During this time I have a horrible coughing attack and 2 guys go fetch some water for me, I am thanking them again. So after it is fixed I tell the guy that I accidently parked in their garage and wanted to know when I go to leave will the garage door automatically open. He asks me how I got in the garage..... and said yes it should open. So I thank him and walk outside and down the ramp to the garage. Well of course the door is closed, crap. So I waited a few minutes to see if anyone was coming or going and I could just slip in, but of course no. So now I have to walk back up the ramp and into the store and tell the guys at the front that I accidentally parked in their garage and need to go throught the building to get to my car. Why can't they just have a parking lot big enough for people to park here!!! They ask me again how I got in the garage.... So the guy escorts me through the building down to the garage and then I am really embarrassed about how tightly my car is in the spot and that I am sucking it in to get into the car. He then is helping me back out b/c of course I am doing like 6 point turns to try and get my tank out of here. So then he walks over to the garage door and presses the opener. I thank him and apolize again. So embarassing! I was telling Jason the story over the phone today and he is dying laughing, thanks honey!
So now that my phone is back to working I added those pictures to the week of March 25.
Amber went in fine to gymnastics this afternoon. When we got to school to pick up the boys she said she had to go to the bathroom so we are in the bathroom and the fire drill goes off. Everyone out. So we had to wait outside for a bit with the school. Don't really know what the problem was. No fire. So then the kids went back into school and came out with their bags as the day was already over.
Jacob had tennis tonight and I am going to bed early.
Wednesday I went back home after dropping the kids off at school and took a nap as I was not feeling any better and now one of my ears is all clogged up.
After I picked Amber up we made blueberry muffins for tomorrow.
This afternoon I got our letters from the ministry of transportation that our drivers license stuff has more problems- ugh!
Thursday my friend and I were able to catch up for coffee since the other 2 girls have moved we are down to 2 now. Another girl and her baby did end up joining us as well. So that was nice to catch up after a 2 week break.
I canceled French again today since I still have a bad cough.
I got a lot of things done today and we all went to bed early.
Friday morning I had coffee at school with a friend, then on to the toy store to pick up the last gift for Sean's b'day and then a quick trip to the store for a few groceries.
Amber went to a friend's house after school so when I am free my friend and I like to try and do lunch. So today we tried this French restaurant up a few streets from me. It is neat restaurant in that it sits up a bit over the street and all the front walls are glass, so it is a full view of outside along the whole front of the restaurant. It ended up being a lot more expensive then we had expected, but I guess it was our fault. When we ordered our waiter spoke English and so we ordered lunch and then a glass of champagne. Well here when you are ordering it is normally in French and we say Crement, which is the local champagne. We just didn't say that word since we were ordering in English, but we thought that was kind of the standard so I guess we learned! He ended up giving us Champagne which is quite expensive!
Before I picked up the boys from school I picked up Amber at her friends and then we went to school. Jacob had movie night at school so he stayed for that and they watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2. And then Sean asked if he could spend the night at his friend's house. I told the mom I didn't have any clothes or anything for him since this was spur of the moment and she was just going to take him from school since we don't live close to each other and she just said he could borrow some of her son's clothes. That should look funny since her son comes up to Sean's shoulder! So Amber and I came to school and all we left with were 2 backpacks!
Amber and I made some cookies at home.
After the movie was over we went back to school and picked up Jacob and his friend as he was sleeping over at our house. So we came home and had dinner, the boys played, we had popcorn and they watched ET - too funny!
Sat. morning the jolly handyman came over and hung 5 more pictures for me. I buy pictures from places that we visit and that is our art around the house. He said you could just take the tour of Europe at our house since I have pictures from 6 different countries right now hanging up. We will see how many I can collect over our stay here. He also hauled away my old dryer. Here you can't put anything out for trash unless it fits into your can. I heard they do some type of pickup of other things, but I am not sure how often or when they do these things and I don't even know who to call.
Jacob's friend that spent the night got picked up late morning and then after the handyman left we ran across town and picked up Sean from his sleepover. Both boys had a fun night with their friends.
Early afternoon Jason got back from the states with his overstuffed suitcases. So I went through and took out all our goodies and some presents we had ordered for Sean's b'day. The kids were excited to see Jason and had a lot to tell him. Then Jason layed on the couch and took a nap as he was exhausted. When he woke up he quickly mowed the lawn, a big 15 minute job! But with quite hours on Sunday it had to be done today. We bbqed some sausages we had picked up from that butcher near his office the other week, and they were really good.
Amber definately has a cold now, I am still not feeling good and Jason seems to be sick as well.
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