Spring is in the Air.

Hello again,

We're on holiday, and goodness it feels good.

The days begin with cartoons and are filled with walks and cuddles. What else could a girl ask for?

Flowers!

So, we went to the garden centre and then dug up our 'garden' so that we could plant our flowers and pot our seeds.

In a very cute moment, Emma cut off one of her flowers to plant in the pot over the seeds she'd just planted... she was so proud of herself I couldn't find the words to say that Nature doesn't grow her flowers fast!

Maybe she does, though, because all of a sudden my kids are all big and bright and beautiful!

Just like the first flowers of our wee garden :-)

Hoping mother Nature is making your garden bright and beautiful,
Robynxxxx

Time Travelling

When you're standing in one of the three rooms which are going to combine to be our living room, you are most definitely in the 1970's. The wall paper is faded orange but the flowers are defiantly not fading despite the passing of time.

When you climb upstairs to the third and fourth floors, you go back in time. Way back. The house was built in 1759 and nobody's ever really done anything to those floors. Ben's changing that, though, as he's spent the last couple of weekends tearing up the floor, and the stuff that goes beneath.

That means that when you stand on the third floor you can see through the fourth floor to the roof. That's kinda an odd feeling... particularly when you know that we're changing the roof, too!

The funny thing is that it's a great experience to be in the midst of all this dirt and dust because you really have the impression that you're changing something important.

Thankfully, when we come home we can cook using vegetables from the veggie box that our (excellent) neighbours deliver each Friday. Indeed, that's maybe where we find the energy to keep up with quite so much time traveling!

Hope you're all doing well despite the dirt and dust of life!
hugs,
Robynxxxx
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Winter Days

The weather is already growing warmer again, but for a couple of weeks the weather was real
ly cold here. We stayed around -10*C long enough for the local river to freeze over... and for us to wrap up warm whenever we went out! In the photo above, we're walking past the local church on our way around Mutzig.

Seeing the Light!

Here we are in the attic.... which will become our bedroom. Ben's just finished knocking down the chimney which traversed the house, which means you can now see down, down, down to the first floor. See that little corner of light? That's our living room.... seen through the intermediary level where the kids will sleep... one day!