OMG - my youngest daughter seems to have turned into some kind of rebel!!!!! She'll be asking to wear hoodies soon!! So the kids have been back at school for 1 week......I'm already feeling like it should be the end of term..............everyone seemed to be ready for being back at school.........can you believe I was talking to some friends on the first morning back and after asking how the hols were.....her comment was "great - but not long enough!!!!!" I mean come on........how can 10 weeks off possibly not be long enough??!?!? Does she send her kids off to camps or something?! Maybe I'm obviously just too old!!!!!
Anyway - kids happy to see all their friends.......Shaun happy we are back in Lux and he's not home alone...............I'm happy to get some peace and quiet in the day..............and even Ruby seemed to be all laughs and smiles on Monday as if to say "I've got mummy all to myself again"!!!!! Well if so - she's got a bloody funny way of showing it................so monday all goes swimmingly (until i find out conor already has football starting THAT day and another 2 times that week and for the next however many in the football season................oh great!!!!!) and then i'm thinking how quiet it is upstairs as Ruby plays in her room and I am preparing dinner (in anticipation of our 6.30pm return after football :-( ).............so i go and investigate.........Nooooooo......so she has a bottle of pink hair conditioner in her hands and is holding it upside down pouring it all over our persian rug................aghhhhhhhh........
what an angel?!!?!?!?!
"I am not moving from here!!!!"
.......and so the week continues in much the same vain,..........washing-up liquid squeezed over her toys, clothes and another rug...............toothpaste squirted out all over the floor, the step and her clothes................sudacrem covered face, hands and clothes.....................and more and more as the days go by.........and her latest trick is to pull all the toilet paper off and soak it in the water of the toilet bowl and then bring out and wipe the floor (or whatever takes her fancy!!!!).................anyone who ever leaves the toilet door open........at their peril!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so an eventful week.........and shaun missed all the joys as he was away in Seattle all week..............did someone tell me once that it would be great moving to lux for more family time and stress-free lifestyle.................they were lying!
BUT.........all that considering......I did have a nice week catching up with friends for coffees and lunch and I did enjoy my day with Ruby at creche :-)))))
So week 2 begins.......and without hubby again!!!!! so he managed less than 48 hours at home before flying over to london (and then paris) arriving home friday morning!!! He promises that's it for a while!
I manage a girls night out (no great shakes as everyone has to drive!!!).....although it did make me laugh when the drink chosen for the evening was champagne......no problem with that................can you believe though......no half measures here.....straight for the real mccoy..............Veuve Clicquot nothing less!!!!!! Only in Luxembourg!!!! wasn't even a special occasion!!! I had to chuckle to myself :-)
Having moaned endlessly about the customer service here (or lack of!!!!) I was pleasantly surprised last week with some positive service..........wonders never cease! So it started off as frustrating as ever.......as I was driving home with Ruby (giving it zzzzzzzz's in the back of the car!).........I noticed a space right outside the shoe repair (this NEVER happens and most places are not accessible by car unless you frequent one of the huge shopping centres with parking garages and leave 2 hours later...any shorter is impossible to achieve!!!!)) so I quickly pulled in feeling all smug with shoes ready in the car to drop at repairers! So it's about 11.30am.........plenty of time to allow these late starters to be open......too early for their 2 hour 12-2 lunch break and definitely not a sunday when everything is shut (or a monday for that matter when shops seems to take it into their own hands as to whether they open or not!!!!).........anyway.................at 11.30 I run across the road to the shop.........and am greeted by a scrawled note on the door saying "back in 10 minutes".....aghhhhhhhhhhhh
anyway..........finally dropping them off later in the day (this time took a chance in disabled parking.....no chance of me getting a space twice on the same day (or same week for that matter!) and when i collected them later in the week (on foot this time!)........he had done a marvellous job and even better had cleaned and polished them for me! So made up for all previous frustrations and saved me a job..........boots now ready for cold weather to begin!
On the same trip to town I had to search out a jewellers that could take some links out of my watch which is too big.........struck lucky this time..........i had an idea of where i was heading but wasn't sure what i was in for......lady stood chatting in doorway looked a bit rough and almost walked straight past.......how wrong i was.......the lady spoke english, was lovely and helpful and took links out for me there and then and for FREE..........FREE???? i felt like hugging her for the friendly, positive experience! small things......................:-)
Anyway - kids happy to see all their friends.......Shaun happy we are back in Lux and he's not home alone...............I'm happy to get some peace and quiet in the day..............and even Ruby seemed to be all laughs and smiles on Monday as if to say "I've got mummy all to myself again"!!!!! Well if so - she's got a bloody funny way of showing it................so monday all goes swimmingly (until i find out conor already has football starting THAT day and another 2 times that week and for the next however many in the football season................oh great!!!!!) and then i'm thinking how quiet it is upstairs as Ruby plays in her room and I am preparing dinner (in anticipation of our 6.30pm return after football :-( ).............so i go and investigate.........Nooooooo......so she has a bottle of pink hair conditioner in her hands and is holding it upside down pouring it all over our persian rug................aghhhhhhhh........
what an angel?!!?!?!?!
"I am not moving from here!!!!"
.......and so the week continues in much the same vain,..........washing-up liquid squeezed over her toys, clothes and another rug...............toothpaste squirted out all over the floor, the step and her clothes................sudacrem covered face, hands and clothes.....................and more and more as the days go by.........and her latest trick is to pull all the toilet paper off and soak it in the water of the toilet bowl and then bring out and wipe the floor (or whatever takes her fancy!!!!).................anyone who ever leaves the toilet door open........at their peril!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so an eventful week.........and shaun missed all the joys as he was away in Seattle all week..............did someone tell me once that it would be great moving to lux for more family time and stress-free lifestyle.................they were lying!
BUT.........all that considering......I did have a nice week catching up with friends for coffees and lunch and I did enjoy my day with Ruby at creche :-)))))
So week 2 begins.......and without hubby again!!!!! so he managed less than 48 hours at home before flying over to london (and then paris) arriving home friday morning!!! He promises that's it for a while!
I manage a girls night out (no great shakes as everyone has to drive!!!).....although it did make me laugh when the drink chosen for the evening was champagne......no problem with that................can you believe though......no half measures here.....straight for the real mccoy..............Veuve Clicquot nothing less!!!!!! Only in Luxembourg!!!! wasn't even a special occasion!!! I had to chuckle to myself :-)
Having moaned endlessly about the customer service here (or lack of!!!!) I was pleasantly surprised last week with some positive service..........wonders never cease! So it started off as frustrating as ever.......as I was driving home with Ruby (giving it zzzzzzzz's in the back of the car!).........I noticed a space right outside the shoe repair (this NEVER happens and most places are not accessible by car unless you frequent one of the huge shopping centres with parking garages and leave 2 hours later...any shorter is impossible to achieve!!!!)) so I quickly pulled in feeling all smug with shoes ready in the car to drop at repairers! So it's about 11.30am.........plenty of time to allow these late starters to be open......too early for their 2 hour 12-2 lunch break and definitely not a sunday when everything is shut (or a monday for that matter when shops seems to take it into their own hands as to whether they open or not!!!!).........anyway.................at 11.30 I run across the road to the shop.........and am greeted by a scrawled note on the door saying "back in 10 minutes".....aghhhhhhhhhhhh
anyway..........finally dropping them off later in the day (this time took a chance in disabled parking.....no chance of me getting a space twice on the same day (or same week for that matter!) and when i collected them later in the week (on foot this time!)........he had done a marvellous job and even better had cleaned and polished them for me! So made up for all previous frustrations and saved me a job..........boots now ready for cold weather to begin!
On the same trip to town I had to search out a jewellers that could take some links out of my watch which is too big.........struck lucky this time..........i had an idea of where i was heading but wasn't sure what i was in for......lady stood chatting in doorway looked a bit rough and almost walked straight past.......how wrong i was.......the lady spoke english, was lovely and helpful and took links out for me there and then and for FREE..........FREE???? i felt like hugging her for the friendly, positive experience! small things......................:-)
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