by Pumpkin on March 14, 2010
It is already Sunday! Where did the days from last week scamper off too?
I recently realized the girls only have about four more months left of school this year. After summer, M will go on to second grade, C will start first grade and go to the “big school” with her sister and E (my son, my baby) will start Kindergarten. I will have no children left at home with me. It is a strange feeling to have all your children in school. I am not even mentioning A (my oldest daughter) that is taller than me now and such a beautiful young lady at fourteen.
Time passes by so slow when you are a child. I remember summers would stretch off into forever with chirping birds and creeks that needed discovering. As an adult, I find that summers slam to a halt far too quickly for me to properly soak in all the laughter and play with my own children.
They are already whining that they want to ride their bikes but there is still too much snow for that. Soon. Soon the snow will part. One more month and then we will begin to feel that summer is coming. We will take long walks before bedtime and enjoy longer and longer days of light.
This will be our last summer together before all the children are off to school. Off into their own lives without me. I do think that my son will have some issues going to school. He has already informed me that he will cry “all the day long at school….FORT Mama…tres fort!”.
He got angry and stomped off to his room when I mentioned a couple weeks back that he will have his birthday in a few months and will be five years old.
A big boy!
He screamed from his room that he will not have his birthday and he will stay little forever. As he slammed his bedroom door he added that he will NOT be a big boy but will stay LITTLE.
“I stay little, Mama”, he said with a tearfilled voice.
“I stay with you, Mama.”, he sobbed into his pillow as I came to him and comforted him.
I worry about him going to school. However, I know in my heart he will be fine and forget all about wanting to stay little forever. He will make friends and run off into his own life growing more and more independent. Just like his oldest sister did because she too once told me she wanted to stay little forever. Yet, she is growing up and enjoying her life that she is making for herself more and more.
Just as it should be.
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by Pumpkin on March 13, 2010
More pictures from our walk yesterday.
I hope you are all having a great weekend so far!
All photos taken by me with my Lumix.
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by Pumpkin on March 12, 2010
The very next day after my last post (complaining about the freezing weather here) the weather was warmer. It was almost normal.
Today, it was still warmer.
No wind.
I am a happy girl. :)
In celebration of the lovely weather, we took a walk today up a little mountain road near our village.
It was awesome!
I am ready for summer and sad that we only have one or two kinda warm months out of the year. We have about six months (sometimes more) of winter weather here. I would be lying if I said that I loved winter that much. :)
It is tolerable because it is so terribly beautiful.
First three photos were taken with the Nikon D60 and the last three with the Lumix (point and shoot). All photos were taken by me during our walk today.
More photos tomorrow! I promise.
I finally finished all my ironing yesterday. Still haven’t cleaned out my fridge but did mop the apartment today. I just never feel like I can ever really get on top of housework since it is always a work in progress.
Vilay has been on medical leave due to a fractured hand. It has been about five weeks that he has been home with us. Five weeks too long. :) Him being home is the equivalent of having two (perhaps three) extra children in the house. He should go back in a couple weeks. Then, I should have more time to update the blog and Facebook. I am surprised my family hasn’t left me any emails asking where I disappeared to the last few weeks since I haven’t been posting updates on Facebook. Which brings me to the fact that I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook.
It is the easiest way to communicate with family and friends quickly and all at once. So, it is a keeper even if I do have issues with it. More and more of my family is joining Facebook and I adore seeing all their photos and reading about what they are up to. I just need to figure out how to set it up so that only one group of people can read some of my more personal updates.
While some of the people I went to high school with are still good friends most of them are faint memories. I am not comfortable with everyone that I went to high school with or know in passing being able to read my most intimate updates. That is where my issue with Facebook lies. I know I can fix it but need time to work out how to do it. Meaning…I need to google how to do it and then walk myself through it.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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by Pumpkin on March 10, 2010
Now more than ever I remember why I HATED winter before moving to Switzerland!!!
On my way home today from the grocery the wind whipped freezing cold air straight through my very being. I had a flashback to when I lived in Ohio and would run to my car as fast as I could. I would jump in my car and slam my door shut on winter! Winter was never happy and would howl all around my car and push it with force as I drove on in spite of it.
Today, I finally realized that it wasn’t really winter that I hated. It was winter wind!
After moving to Switzerland I found winters to be gentle no matter if the snow was higher than my head. Here even the snow feels soft and powdery under your boots as you walk making you think of sand on a beach. The sun kisses your face and warms your bones here in the Jura of Switzerland…Even in winter. I would often find myself stopping to gaze over the snow covered mountains in no hurry to go home.
All of that was until this freezing cold winter wind hit our cozy snow covered mountains.
Now I hate putting on my coat because I know it will not be enough to keep that vicious winter wind out. I practically run to the bus stop, the grocery store or anywhere else that forces me out of the warmth of my apartment. I detest this old winter wind more than I ever did in Ohio. It makes me ache for the gentle winter that I had grown to love and even look forward to.
This past week the winter wind has been so hard and bitter that even the snow crunches. I had forgotten that for my entire life snow only crunched when you walked on it. In Ohio, we never had the soft powdery snow that I have come to know since moving to Switzerland.
For the first time since moving to Switzerland, I find myself HATING the fact that it is winter.
When I come home out of the freezing cold, I slam my door shut on the winter wind. The winter wind howls outside my windows and pushs hard against my shutters making them rattle.
I grumble under my breath, “Go away winter wind! You are more than welcome to go back to Ohio and leave my gentle Swiss winter alone!”
We have another week of this horrible wind and then I hope winter goes back to normal for the Jura.
Photos below were taken a few weeks back when it was still possible to enjoy winter. :)
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by Pumpkin on March 7, 2010
It is as if I can hear the white horse in the front talking…
“Oh my! Do you see those two back there?”
“How embarrassing!”
“Getta room why doncha!?!”
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Very busy weekend for me. I have been spring cleaning BIG TIME!
When I feel the need to clean I let it flow. There has been no stopping me. I have mopped the entire apartment. I have wiped down all the wood furniture and window ledges with a wood cleaner. I have cleaned all the windows and mirrors. I have ironed all the kids clothes because I decided I would like to start ironing. Ha! We’ll see how long that lasts. I swept down the couch and chairs. I cleaned out the kitchen cabinets and on top of the cabinets. I cleaned the entire bathroom from the top to the bottom. I cleaned our computer and television with a wonderful new product that is safe for electronics.
Actually, it doesn’t really sound like I did so much. I think it was just that all of this was in between all the regular cleaning, cooking and childcare that I do on a daily basis. Before my kids, I could knock all that out in a good part of a day. It has taken me three days!!!
All I know is I am dog tired but it feels good to be in a very, very clean apartment. I still need to clean the refrigerator and iron all my husband and my clothes but that has to wait because tomorrow is laundry day. WOOHOO! - That was a woohoo said with a whole lotta sarcasm just in case you didn’t hear it. :)
Boring week here. Sorry guys! Perhaps if the wind dies down a little we will get a walk in around the village tonight. If so, I will be sure to bring my camera along! We have had a mini snow storm and it is all white and pretty here again.
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