Home...very jet-lagged.....bit unsettled....very annoyed...

It is only 6.15am although I have been awake since 3AM!!!!! For the past 3 mornings!!!!!

We arrived back in Australia very early on Sunday morning. The flight was long but fine and the kids were great. It appears that I am the only one in the family who is having trouble sleeping at the right time. The kids all went back to school the next day and have been fine and settled back OK.

Hubby and I are a bit unsettled and even more so after hearing the news that a road is going to be built at the back of our house. This had been debated in parliament years before we bought the place due to rare and endangered legless lizards living here. The road was not built and in actual fact the local town centre was built further away. Our view has been our saviour and there has not been a day when I have looked out my kitchen, my bedroom or my office and not appreciated the view. We also built two decks to take advantage of the view. I don't really like my house but am happy here because of our location. Now the powers that be have decided a road shall be built!! Bastards!!!!

This is an older photo but you can see how a road 30 meters from my back fence would annoy me.

So at 4am this morning after looking at houses on realestate.com in warmer climes and deciding that I don't really want to fill in the application form to be a permanent teacher here in the ACT - I woke hubby up to say we are moving!!! He grunted 'ok' and went back to sleep. Just before at 6am while eating some cold lasagne with Shay (maybe she is jet-lagged) I mentioned to her about the road and she replied "Then let's move. Can we take the birds and kangaroos with us?"

I know I have had plans to move in the past but then decided I needed to finish my Uni degree here. Well now I have finished it and although I really want to teach and have a class of my own, I still need to give some more of my time to my children first - especially if/when...no we are going to - move!!

...I'll keep you posted!!

PS. The something special I picked up the day before we left Switzerland was a ring........a wedding ring.......after 13 years of marriage.......and three children!!

Home soon.....

In less than two days we are heading back to Australia. I cannot believe how fast three months has gone. To us and everyone else it seemed that 3 months in Switzerland was going to be a holiday however it turned out that it was more about 'living' in Switzerland again. Naturally with the kids going to school for 7 weeks and I doing my 8 week teaching Internship it wasn't really a holiday - but so so so worthwhile. I couldn't have imagined how well the kids would adapt to school here and it all being in a foreign language. I am just so proud of all three of them.

My Internship went really well and I was lucky to have a wonderful mentoring teacher who I learnt so much from. I still want to be a teacher - just with my own class. It was hard work and I had a lot of Uni work to do at the same time. So I am very thankful to my husband and in-laws who looked after the kids and myself!! I will graduate in a few weeks, fill in applications and have an interview....who knows what will happen.

I have caught up with some of my most beautiful friends since being back and it really has defined to me that true friends are the ones that you can pick up where you left off....4 years ago and really 6 years ago when I lived here!! There has been a few people that I haven't been able to see and some I just thought that things have changed so much that I didn't call. Time moves on and I do feel sad and even guilty but have realised that some people we are friends with due to circumstance and time and when that changes the friendship changes too.

We are all looking forward to going home and even Marcel has said "Home is wherever the five of us are." - which is lovely coming from my very Pro Swiss husband!!!

.....am picking something very special up tomorrow so will try and post a photo!!

more underwater babies

Socks!!!

Well I guess I should say SOCK (singular)...as I have only knitted one!!! But this is my first ever sock that I have knitted!! I am so happy with it ....will be happier when I have knitted two of course!!!!

Thanks to my mother-in-law for her patience in helping me troll through a knitting pattern in German!!

Underwater Dancer

mmm??

...so if the chocolate appears to be full of holes but still weighs 100grams - do I still need to worry when I happily can eat a whole block???......and then another??

balloon.....

Pictures are in the opposite order.......still a balloon this size can crash and cause a small grass fire!!!!!!!.......lucky.