...what we have been doing lately....
Well, I spent a lot of mum-and-me time with Jakob because he started preschool at his kindergarden and now feels like he has grown so much. I cannot believe it that the third child of ours will start school next summer. it seems like yesterday that they were toddlers (well how old sounds that?)
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So we've been strolling through the neighbourhood with an occasional coffee break now and then. I love sitting with him in our cobblestoned streets, having a snack and a drink and read something to him or play a game of cards or so.
And our No. 2 also finds that she has grown a lot AND that she has outgrown the shared room she was in with Jakob until now. An nearly 8 year old girl is not amused when the 5 year old brother is always listening to her cds and seldomly puts them back, not to mention the mess he makes in his and her room (he calls it playing). So we decided to redistribute the rooms again. Jakob will move into Markus' office, Pauline into the guest room and Markus office will be under the roof with an annex for guests. Pauline is so exited to move to the ground floor and share it with our No. 1. An Jakob will enjoy the cozyness of his room next to ours.
The decision was easy but then: Markus shelves were too high for the rooms under the roof. So we had to open another battlefield and Moritz had to give him his Expedit in exchange fo Markus' Bonde...
Good and bad for Moritz to go through all his stuff again and think of all the things he could give away or throw away if no longer useful or broken.
The problem is: To get the furniture from one room to the other you have to first remove everything into another room.
To be honest: I cannot lift any more carton with books and folders and I need a day off.
It is always so great to redecorate the rooms anew if it wasn't for the books to be carried around.
These are the before/in-between pictures - see more in a few days. I will show room after room!
And of course I will also be painting! Is it weird to do that shortly before moving? I don't think so. Sprucing up a room, adding or taking a way things and adding a new colour always brings so much happiness and new energy (and mum of three can go through all the stuff and think of donations for friends, the kindergarden, things for the flea market and ebay perhaps.
So you see me everyday covered in paint and up to my knees in paper and stuff
See you!
Yvonne
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