so its been a while since i actually wrote a real blog post. Latley they have been about random stuff... but not really about what im doing over here!
I'm busy... busy busy busy... Its good but its also nice sometimes to just slow down a bit. mondays gonna be my "slow it down" day. as long as i dont get asked to do anything...
so what have i done this week?
monday... i stayed in and just worked on some letters... a present (yes still for you molly) drank lots and lots of tea and made myself yummy yummy food. I think i only went out to get bread... and i love my frequent trips to the bakery.
tuesday... i didn't do to much. the family went swimming in the mornign so i stayed home with carlijn. gave her her bottle... let her burb a bit...and let her sleep... easy as pie. then in the afternoon i watched the kids for a while and did some laundry and groceries:) lots of groceries:) Tuesday night it was off to the city for some drinks with my south african friend:) it was great fun. i felt so weird ordering alchohol... and being legal! that wasn't a late night though because wednesday was an early mornigng (due to a lovley skype date with the older sister)
wednesday...Leiden:) we went on a boat tour of Leiden, which is the cutest city ever. its like a mini amsterdam. Its got its coffeeshops... canals, universities, old churches... etc, but its on a smaller scale than amsterdam so its easier to feel at home. also it is a hard core university city so there are tons of students and it has a nice feel to it. Like there is lots of life there:) wednesday night we made a deliceous dinner for a nice dinner with company... but after we hurried to buy ingreadients and finially ahd it all ready for the oven, we got a call that one of their kids was sick so only the dad aws coming with one kid... so we had lots of foood... but we finished it all! except a little rice..
Thursday! oh man this was not just a day. it was like 5 days all jam packed into one on what was supposed to be my day off. I feel like this whole week i ahve not even had time to breath! In the mornign it was a disaster. I woke up really early... becaue i need to catch up on my bible readins and mornigns prove to be great times to get some reading done before the day starts and i get to caught up in the day and evenign to remember to take time out and read! So i woke up and had breakfast all ready to go and then i got my tea and my bible and headed to the couch to wait for the family to come down. 730 passed with no noise from upstaris which is strange consdering the kids wake up like an alarm clock... same time each day. then 8.... 830... and stilll no noise. at about 840 carolina came down and said they would let the kids sleep in... even though i am supposed to ahve them at daycare at 9... and daycare doesn't like it if your late! so she phoend and said we'd be late... well then what a disater! aparently staying up late does not do to good for the mornigns because everythign was a battle... from what to put on their bread to drinkng their milk, to which sandals they were supposed to wear! sara screamed the entire way down the street and then her dad said that she could go back home and theyh would drive her there instead. Bad idea because then seh has the impression that seh won the battle... not a good idea to let her win... she wins enough battles in this house...but there was nothign i could do about it. after the daycare shinanigans... it was off to oud alblas.. to this ancient house of chris's mom which as not been inhabbited in years and is full of ancient stuff and about 10 million spiders and webs all of witch i had to vaccum up... and then loads and loads of delicous smelling things to sift throgh and box up or throw out... or just leave becaues we have no idea waht to do with it! we worked there all day... on my day off... might i add.. and then had to race back to make it to daycare to pick the kids up before closing... we got there at 558... and it closes at 6! then came thursday night. Chris had physio so he was out of the picture for the evenign... so it was me and the baby again. Carolina took care of the kids and i gave carlijn her bottle and burped her and put her in bed... and then it was off to th emovies for me. I was meeting marie (my fellow canadian nanny) in Leiden at 9pm to go see twilight! or so we thought. apparently the movie schedule is changed each thursday... so it was not playing at that theater... so we had to find a differnt movie to watc... but there was only 3 playing at that theater late... so we watched step up 3. it was good:) happy times... but such a wierd theater... we had an intermission half way thorugh the movie... so you could buy more food... and pee... waht a weird thing in a movie.... to stop half ways through... and then at night... we got to the station at 1132 and my trained left at 1134... and i missed it by less than 30 seconds... i was running up the last stairs as it sped away! so my next train was not till 00 06... so i had to wait for quite a while... in the cold station!
friday! i was tired today... but actualy not bad considering i was not in bed untill after1... and i still got up at 720:). It was a beach day. me and chris had to persuade carolina that it would be fun to go to the beach... and we went! but after like half an hour there we were freezing... the sun went away.. the clouds popped in for a visit... and mr wind also showed up to give us some more goosebumps, or as its called here in holland.. chicken skin. we then went to the beachside restaurant for a cappuchino to warm up... and ended up staying there till 4! chris had anap on the bench at our table... we ended up ordering lunch. the kids played on the playground... i read my book... it was great! then it got hot... so i went back to the sand and read some more... and then went swimming in the big waves! it was great. Carolina and sara came along too and we had so much fun bonding in the waves and water... wave jumping proved to be quite entertaining with all three of us! it was great fun! then tonight... i had to make dinner... for the 3rd time thwi week... waht happend to my one night/ week... i also have to hold down the fort... with all three kids tonight. luckily they are all in bed! usually carlijn cries all evening...but not with my magic touch. she went soundly to sleep:) after lots and lots of burps... and david and sara are also asleep! sara yelled to get attention for the first 15 mintues of being in bed... but with not one ounce of attention from me... she got bored and went to sleep! she doesn't win battles against me! now i'm waiting for the next "feeding" which will be in an hour... i would really love to call it a night and snuggle into bed and watch some bones on my laptop... but no. can do. gotta stay up for the next feeding... but i think i'll just snuggle onto the couch and watch some bones and drink some tea untill the baby wakes up!
tomorrow mornign i'm heading down south to middleburg where i'l spend a fantastic weekend (fingers crossed) away from children! and with some relatives who i dont know... more strangers! i'm getting good at this:)
yesterday was also quite the day. I finally can be at peace about YWAM... Gods answered my billion prayers about getting my Visa in time for my departure! I emailed the Swedish Embassador in Holland, His name is Rolf which i think is pretty much the coolest name ever. Anyway, it was the second time i have hasseled him if my visa is proccessed yet so i expected to recieve a reply similar to last time which nicley said that no, its not ready but it will hopefully be processed soon. He is not the one doing the proccessing... its all done over in Sweden... So anywaays instead I checked my emails in the morning like i do everyday and i had an email from rolf, so i opened it and vuahla... my life just got better. He said my visa was ready and i could come by and pick it up anytime between 9-12 on a weekday. So I planned to go Friday (which is today) but then i was to excited so i asked carolina if it is alright if i hop on the train to the hague to go and get my visa and she said go for it... so i did. After running through the rain, and using my handy dandy map i arrived at the swedish embassy at 1150, ten mintues before closing... sorry rolf. Then i gave this lady my passport, and she told me to take a seat. about ten minutes later rolf came out and handed me my passport and showed me the lovley resident permit that was now safley inside of it! Hurray hurray hurray. Enough worries... So there is still one girl visaless for my DTS, she is from the congo and for her visa to be processed in time we need a miracle (please pray)! So after wednedays mishap with the closing time of mcdonalds i decided to get a mcflurry on the way home... because i was so so happy!
