Real Magic....

No no it's real, I tell you. The daddy, the little man and the princess are real magicians. You can see it all here with your own eyes. It's seriously good magic, isn't it?

Have you ever seen anything like it? No, neither have I... I'm so proud of my husband and our children for their amazing talent!

First day of school.

The little man started school today. The princess too but she's been going to school for 2½ years now. When I dropped her off this morning she hardly had time to say goodbye.... Just a quick "see you, mummy" and no kiss!

We were with the little man today for his first day, they are only there a couple of hours. From tomorrow it's normal school day for him too but today it was special. Red carpet, flags and all....

Our adventure!

That's what I chose to call the Photo Book that I have been allowed to make here http://www.cewefotobog.dk/ and I loved looking through our photos to find the ones I wanted in it. The daddy had a tiny say too but let's be honest, I was to make the photo decisions in the end. It was really easy to make and if it hadn't been I'm afraid I might have given up. Patience is not one of my strong sides, as in... I have no patience.
Well, back to the book. It has a hardcover and the pages are thick enough for me to let the little man and princess look in it unsupervised.... http://www.cewefotobog.dk/fotobog-kvadratisk-format.php
I have chosen photos from our wedding, our honeymoon in Disneyland, uncle and aunty's wedding and a lot more.

This is a review. All the opinions and words are my own.

This is it....

Last day of school holidays. Monday it's back to school and from now on I have 2 school children. No more babies, they have grown up! A bit too quickly though...
Anyway, we have had a lovely summer holiday and the children are soooo ready for school. Or is it me who's ready for them to go back?? No, I'm sure they miss their friends and teachers. The little man had 4 months in school before the holiday started and loved it. The children got to meet their teacher, class mates, they had time to get to know the school, how things work and got to know each other. He is very excited and so ready to start Monday but am I....?

We spent today going to our Library. We love it there and the princess had to change all the books she's been reading in the summer holidays. She's very close to reaching 5000 pages read which means she'll be given a t-shirt at school. She reads 10 pages or more a day and we write it down in her reading log and sign it. She's very excited to show it to her teacher on Monday.
Soon it's the little man as well. I love the reading program they have at school and are so happy the princess loves reading. I hope the little man will be as keen as her, today it was the sensory boxes at the Library that attracted his attention the most - counting how many of himself he could see..... The princess went straight for the art work after choosing new books.

We're back home.

After 16 days away we're back home. Tuesday night we came back after 8 hours in the car travelling up through Germany. The day before we had tralleved 8 hours as well from Nana and Papa's house in Hertfordshire through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany to our hotel in Essen. I will write another post later with tips on driving long distances with younger children, what works for us that is.

Anyway it's nice to be home again. The weather is warm here but today it has rained all day. Do I dare say I have enjoyed the rain.... We have relaxed inside watching tv and we're nearly (not even close) to be completely unpacked. The princess has lined up all her birthday presents on the floor in her room. The little man has yet to empty his backpack with his holiday stuff. I guess he will when misses what ever toys are in there.

Back to our lovely holiday in England. This year we couldn't have asked for better weather and as we had already planned a 3 day trip to Brighton after the princess' birthday, we were so happy to go there in the heat. We haven't been since I was pregnant with princess so 8 years ago that is, but it was as lovely there as we remembered. The children went swimming, spent their pocket money on all kinds of rubbish, arcade games and a big stripy rock each. We met our good friends and their gorgeous children and spent the day with them. We had fish and chips on the pier and the daddy took the little man and princess up in the big wheel so they could look out over the sea and Brighton. Because we now have the Luggie for me, it was possible for us to go away just the 4 of us. Look below for pictures of our lovely time in Brighton.

In the big pile of post on the kitchen table when we came back Tuesday was this book. I had made it before we left and was to blog about it on my Danish blogs when it arrived. Well, I thought I might as well mention it here too as it is so cool and we just love it. Also with an impatient person like me, when it comes to technical things can make it, everyone can. I made it here and used this format. (just click England at the bottom to change the website to English).

About time....

We've nearly been in England for a week now on holiday. We've enjoyed the lovely weather going to parks and a lake near Nana and Papa. A while back we decided it was about time to show the princess and little man where they were born. We felt we were ready to go, now it is nearly 6 years ago everything changed.

And we were ready, ready to see the Whittington Hospital where they were born, to see our old neighbourhood and play in the park we used to go to all the time. We ended the day at Alexandra Palace from where we could see the road we used to live on and enjoy the view of London.

We met friends we hadn't seen for a while, we chatted, enjoyed a lovely picnic and even after nearly 6 years it still felt like home.

Tomorrow the princess will be 8 years old which will be celebrated with a family brunch and princess castle birthday cake. Monday we will go to Brighton for 3 days, a place we haven't been for over 8 years. We are very excited and this year England is certainly giving us the summer of our dreams. Fantastic weather all the time we're here....