dear best Mom in the universe have you been preparing for my party. I just cant wate.
Since we currently have no house, Robyn's party will have to be postponed a bit. I feel sorry about this but it's just one of those things. We managed Daniel's party, but at that stage all the activity had been on the other side of the house, and they hadn't started breaking walls and kitchens inside. We currently have no kitchen, no lounge, no dining room, and one tiny bathroom off our bedroom. On her actual birthday we will do family presents and go ice-skating (and she can choose one friend to come with us).
As for the house, I am now thoroughly fed up with the whole thing. I desperately want my personal space back. Even though the kids' rooms are intact, since Peter and I are only in our bedroom and not utilising any other part of the house, the kids are no longer using their rooms either, but spend virtually every minute in ours. It's like camping for a month with no beautiful berg outside.
And of course, I am irritated with myself for not radiating joy and sunshine about the whole thing, which, after all, we chose to do and are fortunate enough to be able to afford to do.
The house is progressing of course. Just slowly. Fortunately the elusive bathroom tiles were in fact tracked down by scrounging from other branches. Apparently the reason they are nationally out of new stock is related to some currency issue with Brazil, since these particular tiles come from Brazil. Which makes them sound terribly exclusive and expensive, which in fact they're not.
In other news, it was a dramatic weekend weatherwise with a huge hailstorm on Friday afternoon and very cold conditions over the weekend. There is a plateful of impressive hail stones in our freezer. I hope the kids do not hear wonderful stories at school today from kids whose parents took them to see the snow. The girls are desperate to experience snow and I've been saying for a while that as soon as there was some snow in the berg I would take them to see it. I'm not sure exactly how low-lying the snow was this weekend (whether driving to see it was feasible) but with the house in its current insecure state there was no way we could leave it for an entire day.
Robyn's begun writing a story on her blog. If you're feeling kind, she would love it if you would pop in and leave a comment.
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Any chance that Robyn's blog could be opened up to anonymous comments? I'd like to add a comment without creating an account for myself (but I will do that if you prefer to keep it as is).
I thought it was slightly safer for her to only have comments from blogger account holders. You can report objectional blog(gers) to blogger.
She'd be almost as euphoric to receive email :-)
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