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Just this week...
Sep. 21st, 2019 07:00 pmSo after almost three months living in a madhouse, with son number four working to earn some money, thusly having to get up at five in the morning, the alarm clock set loud enough to wake up the rest of the family, and number five starting a career as a night person, usually turning in at four in the morning after having spent the night in town with her friends, my time of suffering will come to a close – university life is about to start again. Our youngest ones are packing up their suitcases to leave the house - finally! Yippee! No more cooking around the clock, no washing machine that practically has to be turned on every day and laundry which does not hang out by itself, no catfights between brother and sister, me playing taxi or having no car at all! Life will be good again! It´s not that I do not love my offspring, but today´s youths are remarkably lazy when it comes to domestic duties like tidying up but very good at cluttering the house. So tomorrow we will have dinner in a Brazilian restaurant, Monday is for shopping clothes (for our students, of course), and on Tuesday it will be a 3-hour drive to Graz, to drop number four and his belongings then go back home again. Next Sunday daughter has to be brought to her new room in the dormitory in Innsbruck, and then I will book a nice spa weekend for me and hubby, before number one to three will get the impression that their parents are bored to death now that the house is empty and come around to visit.
Update: Son number three just sent me a message that he will come for a visit at the beginning of November, together with grandchild number three. His wife will have a spa weekend with her sister instead. Ha, I so knew it!
There will be two christening feasts, one in Vienna for Elsa, who turns out to be one very big girl (she´s 78 cm at the tender age of six months) and one for baby Cassian, this one in Bucharest, early in January. I fear we´ll freeze our b…. off!
We will do another trip to Graz on the fourth of December, when son has his second graduation ceremony. Well done, number three! I wish this one would have had displayed the same interest in studying when in gymnasium!
Autumn is in full swing now, you can even hear that, because the sound of lawnmowers has been replaced by chainsaws. Every farmer seems to be out in the woods now, cutting down what has died during the hot and dry summer. Hubby has killed two trees in our garden, or more precisely, two trees which had decided to die off had to be cut down before winter, yet the one I wanted off is still standing and will do so till next spring. Too much work, not enough time… There is more urgent work to do like build a new garden fence, ready the pool for winter, plant the new dwarf maples. Nights are quite cold already, temperatures down to a four in the morning. Soon I will have to bring the palm trees into the house, and to add insult to injury, number two deposited his two monstera in our carport, because he does not want them anymore. Too big for the house they live in, so he says. Well, those are gorgeous but monstrous indeed, and toxic to cats also. I have trimmed the smaller one and might place it in the conservatory, because the cats hate that room, too many prickly plants in there, but the second one has to go, it is simply too big for such a small place! Next Friday there will be the yearly flea market of our church, maybe hubby can squeeze the pot into my car for them to sell it!
Update: Son number three just sent me a message that he will come for a visit at the beginning of November, together with grandchild number three. His wife will have a spa weekend with her sister instead. Ha, I so knew it!
There will be two christening feasts, one in Vienna for Elsa, who turns out to be one very big girl (she´s 78 cm at the tender age of six months) and one for baby Cassian, this one in Bucharest, early in January. I fear we´ll freeze our b…. off!
We will do another trip to Graz on the fourth of December, when son has his second graduation ceremony. Well done, number three! I wish this one would have had displayed the same interest in studying when in gymnasium!
Autumn is in full swing now, you can even hear that, because the sound of lawnmowers has been replaced by chainsaws. Every farmer seems to be out in the woods now, cutting down what has died during the hot and dry summer. Hubby has killed two trees in our garden, or more precisely, two trees which had decided to die off had to be cut down before winter, yet the one I wanted off is still standing and will do so till next spring. Too much work, not enough time… There is more urgent work to do like build a new garden fence, ready the pool for winter, plant the new dwarf maples. Nights are quite cold already, temperatures down to a four in the morning. Soon I will have to bring the palm trees into the house, and to add insult to injury, number two deposited his two monstera in our carport, because he does not want them anymore. Too big for the house they live in, so he says. Well, those are gorgeous but monstrous indeed, and toxic to cats also. I have trimmed the smaller one and might place it in the conservatory, because the cats hate that room, too many prickly plants in there, but the second one has to go, it is simply too big for such a small place! Next Friday there will be the yearly flea market of our church, maybe hubby can squeeze the pot into my car for them to sell it!
