A pretty good day!

We signed a boatload of papers today for the house. I guess they do closing here before you close. In the US of A, we signed all these papers the day we got the keys, here they do it earlier to ensure that key day goes smoothly- all of that to say, we are about done everything to get into our house, minus a 10 day wait to pick up the keys. This will be such a huge change for us. We've nearly gotten used to mayhem as our daily standard. The kids will for sure go into mourning when they are separated from a couple of people, namely these ones. My sister and her daughter have been staying with us while we stay at my parent's since their house is under major renovations. This has been handy for us so that we could just get up and do camp cousins whenever we could, plus the cousins get to play together ALL DAY LONG! They are in cousin heaven. Lots and lots of special times. So that was the start of the day.

Then my sister went to a doctor appointment and baby is doing great, looking well developed and should be ready to deliver early as they are tentatively planning.

To top it all off, we had spagetti. OK, so the kids love spagetti and it makes me feel like an accomplished mom because they ate tons of vegetables without a single complaint, but part of the spagetti triumph was due to a little bit of extra inspiration, upon the completion of their meal, I promised to paint a German flag on their face as decoration to greet their newly arrived auntie or Tante at the airport!!!


My sister-in-law arrived tonight from Germany. She left yesterday, and while quite tired, she smiled for our numerous cameras, handed out hugs, delighted us all with her beauty (my brother was especially enamored) and became an instant favourite with all the kids. We are so looking forward to her being a part of our lives. Tomorrow is their 1 year anniversary and they have been apart since their honeymoon last year after they got married. Brutal! I can't imagine. But they made it and it was such a joyous reunion. We are letting them be newly weds tomorrow, but the day after, it's full onslaught family time! The kids can't wait and were most distraught that we could not bring Auntie Andrea home with us. We assured them that she would come out Sunday, which is not so much time to wait, nothing at all like a year!