Long time no update

Tonight for the first time in a couple of days I felt at peace a little bit, I kind of felt that I was in touch with "me", and took everything around me in a bit more than I have been doing recently.
Before I came I took real pleasure in the very little things like the fact that the grass was green and they sky was blue (or in this case grey) but the last couple of weeks i've not been feeling it, which is sad, becuase I think its part of who I am.
I genuinely haven't had the time to update this in the last week, and when i've had time off i've taken to going swimming. except for at the moment becuase my brother is here, so we''ve gone out almost every night. tonight we went out with ayla, aylas sister and aylas sisters boyfriend to an italian restaurant and then to the cinema to see a film called manner hertz (mens hearts) which was quite good.
yesterday we went to macdonalds, and the day before we had a mexican.
i cant really remember much of what happened last week when i was busy not updating this...oh well =] i shall try and keep more ontop of it in the meantime.
the babies have all had nasty colds, and are all a bit blah, j too but he's back to his normal three year old self.
now i dont dare leave my computer becuase my brother will have it, which is a pain in the arse becuase i want to put my pyajamas on, so i have several options 1) i take the laptop with me to the bathroom 2) i go get changed in the corner somewhere so he cant take it 3) i pass out in bed with my clothes on....
im not sure i like any of those options very much.

new additions to the wardrobe

i appologise to anyone thats reading this and doesn't want to hear about my underwear. but when i read this blog in 10 years time i think i will have a major laugh at my own expense, and thus am going to write it down.
yesterday i obtained a wonderful new bra, yes. obtained. (it was a gift)
its not something i would ever have chosen myself..is brown with pink flowery lacy bits, and really quite me, so i dont know why i dont have any like it already but anyway thats besides the point..it looks FANTASTIC. a bit unlike anything i've ever worn before, and so last night in my laziness i went to sleep in it. (naughty i know...) and then this morning julie brought me breakfast in bed. i had a pretty good 24 hours all thanks to this new item of my wardrobe :)
i also bought myself three very unsexy turtleneck tops, beucase it's already bloody freezing here and its not even december. i think its going to get collllddddd.

fairy lights....fairy cakes?

i have taken to sleeping with my fairy lights on, which is a little bit odd becuase normally i just have to have pitch black. they're very pretty butterfly fairy lights. which i have just photographed, becuase i keep meaning to photograph things such as my bedroom, but i always put it off.
all done, uploaded and even annotated :)
enjoy!

peppermint tea and new york cheesecake

this morning i went to bed at about two, to tumble back out of bed again at 6.45, in a race to shower, breakfast and dress in time to take the kids to kindergarten.
today we had the first frost of this coming year, it was bloody freezing outside. the windscreen was icy, and there was no antifreeze in the water, which is something that definately needs sorting. had to be back for half eight, so it was a bit of a mad dash up to the farm, where christa had already left her kids with their omi, becuase we were running so late.
kept the babies occupied and im fairly sure that when J said "fairy child" to Benji, he said it straight back, but after that he wouldn't say anything so.... i guess we'll never know. this afternoon we had a truely german coffee and cake, and i dropped ayla home.
stopped to take some photographs on my way back, and thats where the artness began, although actually i had been writing little things of interest down all day. which i am now going to write here, so that when i lose the post it note that they are written on they will not be lost forever. drew, painted etc until 10pm when we finally decided we should probably eat...
=Peppermint tea
= Postman with dog biscuits
=Breadmachine in a hoover box
=Carbon footprints of buildings

cupcakes

i just found a blog dedicated entirely to cupcakes. how cool, and odd all at the same time.
i never thought that i would have the..ability to maintain a blog, but so far i would say im doing ok, seeing as its been like 2 months. something becomes a habit after 21 days, so hopefully i will keep going with it.
i have decided it would be funny to keep a tally of the number of nappies that i change in this coming year. before we went shopping last time we tried to come up with the number of nappies and baby wipes that we use in a month, i think we came to a total of...about 600, and more than 1000 baby wips, which is quite something!

everybody dance now.

i went out dancing..yes you heard. dancing. despite my better judgement i actually had a great time and am quite proud of myself. which sounds silly. but this is a big step for faithkind i assure you.
aside from that we...watched a film. ate. and....chased children.

melted nutella.

i needed a chocolate fix, but i dont have any chocolate. well i do, i have a bar of emergency chocolate, but i have no idea where on earth it is, which is really stupid, becuase in case of an emergency (like now, which is a chocolate emergency for no other reason than the fact that i wanted chocolate) one cannot find it. so....i resorted to melting nutella in the microwave, which worked very nicely, but i made too much and now i think i feel a bit nasueaous, which serves me right. i dont want to know how many calories i just consumed.

so yesterday we left the kids with one of the babysitters and went upstairs to kick start things a little bit. now no-one knows what i mean by this so...i shall explain.

this house is a hof. so its...an old farm, it used to be the old bakery actually. downstairs is huge by itself, and then half of upstairs consists of my digs, and the other half is empty and quite rustic looking, and then the floor ontop of that is also full of storage and rustic looking.( by that i mean practically untouched for like the last million years or however long). imagine a 4 bedrooomed house in England (like mine) and x10 it. i reckon thats how big this place is. its like a giant giant divided barn. it used to be used for the corn storage and grinding and the like.

anyway to the point. the second floor has an open balcony, which isnt really a balcony at all, just an extension to the outside, there are no railings or anything, its just a big slab with a wall on one side. and it has the worlds MOST amazing views. its truely breathtaking.

now becuase garreth is here, and he can do big manly jobs during the day like moving furniture and boxes and removing dead rats and bats (literally). we decided we would move all the boxes that were consuming the middle floor to one side and clear a space so we could put a table and some chairs in to make our very own art studio and just a general place to hang and appreciate the fantastical views. and so, now we have this amazing space just waiting to be used. i have said that i intend on going out onto the terrace to do yoga in the mornings, but actually if i have time to be doing yoga in the morning then i have time to be doing more sleeping, which is more like me.

i was going to draw a picture but i think only photographs will actually convey what the hell im talking about. for the mean time let your imagination run free.

last night i dreamt about cider, which concerns me, and means tommorow im going to have to go on a hunt, as rumour has it that edeka might sell some which would be pretty damned cool. becuase i have been wanting some for monthhhss.

i had a million and one exciting things to write about, but i cant remember what they were really. tommorow i have a whole entire day off. i have not had a whole entire day off since fi was here at the beginning of last month, which actually seems like an eternity ago....

i am cold.

i dont want to go to bed in my room becuase its a mess, which tommorow i fully intend on cleaning, but for now its just going to bug me. the one thing that concerns me slightly is the fact that i have started actually spending time in my kitchen/loungey thing, which means im pretty much pre-empted to make a mess of it as ever and then i will have two rooms that need cleaning!!!

another really long post from moi, which probably actually conveys nothing of what i actually wanted to say.

today i did not do any kindergarten running which was a welcome break, i also didnt go food shopping, which i dont mind, but its also nice to have a break. i slept and hung up some pretty curtains instead, and then just had a really girly morning, painted my toes and waltzed around in one of those funny green face masks. top times. i cleared the windowsill in the kitchen and opened two of the windows wide open to make my own little balcony and made myself a poached egg, toast and a cup of tea.

i went down in time to give the babies lunch, then we ran around in the garden for a couple of hours, then i tried to put them down to sleep, which failed bigtimess. then dad arrived, stuck his head round the door and pointed out the fact that maybe i was being a little bit optimistic and he'd give me a hand with them out in the garden again. meanwhile j was sleeping, which he does quite reliably in the afternoon, which is nice.

then i went to my german class, which i really enjoyed today actually, mr. italian phd student appears to be quite the comic, and understands my british sarcasm which is cool, it would be nice to finally make some friends out here. sadly now we have a two week autumn break, which sucks a bit, but again is quite welcome...

gieger gieger post here. im going to stop!..

i've had quite a productive morning and i've not even left my bed. these mornings are the best types of morning. - that was the blog i started yesterday. today i slept till 12. it was even more productive. =]

today is my dads birthday, not that the whole world needs to know that, but to me its relevant and in 5 years time i'd like to be able to look back at this and go o.o i remember..i bought him the river cottage meat book, which he's wanted for while now, i ordered it from amazon but i think i forgot to change the name on the parcel so it will be addressed to me. oh well im sure they'll tell me its arrived and then i can tell them they can open it.

today is.. saturday, which means last night we went laterne laufing and the night before julie's mum and garreth arrived which makes the total number of people in the house up to 9, which means the bus has reached its full capacity when we go out, which is quite a squish really, especially with all the prams in the boot.

laterne laufen - a german tradition whereby people walk down the street behind a marching band, with lanterns and sticks of fire, traditionally hosted by the fire brigade, who carry the firesticks. i would have a picture to post but i think my camera batteries have died becuase even when i charge them they only last about 2 minutes.

today we went to mobelkraft, where you couldnt actually buy anything, becuase its a national holiday here to celebrate the unification of east and west many years back - i think 19 or 20ish. but they open the shop so you can browse the furniture and eat cake and drink coffee.

then we came home and had a wonderful roast with yorkshire puddings, and apple crumble with custard - the apples we picked off the tree this afternoon, very cool! sadly custard doesn't grow on trees.

anyway this is turning into one of those long boring blogs, and i will stop =]