Messages frae' Mannheim

wowee!
What a week!
 I'll start at the begining:
When Jus and Mark left we were watching a movie...so we finished that

On:

 Monday:
Nelly walk in the Morning, and the kids discovered the awesome hills that line the sides of the footpaths and went rolling down them, looked like fun but didn't join in, lol
The older 2 were watching Pirates and Dee was bored so she washed the dishes
I had Annika in the afternoon, she played well with Darcy was a little frightened of the older two but was tops with Darcy...there is only a year between them.
While i had Annika we went for a walk to the postoffice and bought stamps for the Christmas cards and posted the Christmas Pressies to Aus

Tuesday:
We made Cookies, like i said before was (i think) was VERY interesting and creative with all the decorating and so on...that was about it, it took a LONG time to make the cookies, the recipe made alot more than i thought! lol Jus was worried there wouldn't be any left by the toime they got back...HA! I think they watched Cinderella today...

Wednesday:
We walked Nelly and met another dog at the oval, Smokey, who was beautifull they played with he and Nelly for almost an hour! Running round the field and throwing the toys....we made Tortellini for late lunch early dinner and you should have seen the looks! it was cheesy Tortellini and the looked at it like...you expect us to eat that? and the next thing i knew all plates were empty! That was YUMMY kc! lol lol lol and then cause its just too cold for them we stayed inside and played games all evening Uno, Cluedo and Yahtzee :) My babysitting was cancelled cause Mara was sick.

Thursday:
On Nellys walk we finally posted the Christmas cards :D The kids settled down to watch Robin Hood, yes, a  DVD a day...we started at the top of the shelf and are working our way down. Then i took the kids with me to my Kiddies Classes...The girls were angels! Con was a bit of a beastie...wouldn't listen or try, so i just ignored him, then he wanted to know why he couldn't have a sticker at the end, gee let me think!?
It was sit in the day for the parents and they are all really REALLY happy with the classes, i got so many compliments (and christmas presents:D) i'm floating on a big proud bubble!
Brought the kids into the city with me and Dan met us there and took the kids home while i taught at the gym.

Friday:
(Today) Took Nelly on long walk, Kids watched Lady and the Tramp while i tried to have a nap.... (am still recovering from head cold, everyday is something different. today was super strength tired-ness)
Then we went into the City and as the kids would say...we got a bus and a tram! we had a wander through the snowy streets, got Big Pom for lunch...hands were almost blue! lol bought Dans christmas present from me and Dans Christmas for me :D we always ask eachother for the things we want and i bought his present to me this year cause he doesn't have time before Christmas to get out to the shops lol!
We then went to the Christmas Markets and the kids had rides on the big old fashioned Carousel an organ plays for, the dodgems and ponys...then cause it was still snowing we went for a stroll around Wasser turm and played in the snow....made snowangels and had a snowfight and connors hands nearly turned BLUE...no joke, you should had SEEN the performance he put on though....AAAAAAAAAAAARGH

We had to walk home from seckenheim, as we were waiting for the bus, there was a tram at the tram stop and the driver announced that our bus would be running half an hour late....it was that last 15 mins that got to Darcy... it was 7 she'd been out all afternoon in the cold and snow and had just had enough! Her tears gave Connor an idea and the were screaming all the way home, he was yelling i need hot water i need hot water....i can't put my hands in my pocket i can't move them and so on and so forth....it took Dee next to no time to cheer up once we got home but Con wasn't getting the reaction he was after so went on for longer....i got a wee video of the theatrics :D i'll put it up eventually, i just know that the photos alone are going to take ages to load....

So Jus and Mark get back tomorrow and my week of being a mother of 3 (4 including Nelly?) is over! It wasn't bad really, i got a compliment from Marga :D it took her a few days to notice jus wasn't here anymore and when she finally asked me she said 'your doing a job thought!' that's HUGE coming from her! So i'm thinking if she thinks i can handle 3 kids, she won't have any complaints when i do have a baby...right?


So i won't put the photos in any kind of order, i'll just PUT them!

awww man! I DID PUT THEM....i did the first 6 or 7 or however many you can upload at a time, but it didn't work!...can i put them on face book? Then i only need to upload them once...PLEEEEEASE?

well i'm gunna anyway, go look there!

So i'm just doing a quick bloggy...because i promised jus i would...but i don't have time to put the photos in that i've been taking i'll do it tonight or in the morning...

So we havn't really been doing much, just hanging out, its hard to think of things to do with them when i know jus and mark are coming back to do those things too!

We've been walking Nelly ALOT, playing alot of board games and watching DVDs and the kids have been helping cook which takes up some time too :D

We made cookies...gee that was an expierience! lol

So i've got to teach tonight and the kids are coming with me cause dan has a dentist appointment and he's not sure how long it'll go for...

But he's coming into t he city to pick them up.

So i'll fix this up 2morrow, we are going to spend the day in the city cause they've been so good and staying home so much!

c-ya

So i'm a bit over Blogging... i enjoy reading other peoples blogs, but i din't like to blog anymore...i will keep it up for mum though...but only when she harrases me...

So last time i blogged was 1st of October....Since then this is all thats been happenin, acording to my diary:

2&3/10  My diary says i didn't do anything...there isn't that interesting!?

4/10  I taught at the gym till 12:30, went and worked for Sutten till 5:30 then went back to the gym for a 'Team Meeting' 6-8

5/10  Had Annika 2-5:30, Then Gym

6/10  is empty

7/10  Had Hanna 2:30 - 6:30

8/10  Gym

9/10  I was in Karlsruhe all day for reahearsals

10/19 Karlsruhe again. No puppy school

11/10 Taught at Gym

12/10 Was Suttens Birthday, But i was in Karlsruhe for Stage rehearsal...so that meant i couldn't take Annika that day, i also had to find someone to fill in for me at the Gym and i couldn't go out and celebrate with Sutten

13/10 I had Hanna and Mara (the new baby sister)

14/10 Isn't very clear...I have 'Hanna ?' written down also 'Maybe Karlsruhe...' not sure what ended up happening!

15/10 was supposed to go to Köln for a Pilates course..but that was when my neck was bad and i'd been to the Dr and he gave me STRONG medecation and i had to cancel that but still taught in the evening

16/10 i have 'Karlsruhe ?' written down....dunno if i ended up going

17/10 missed out on puppy school caus ei had to go to Karlsruhe

18/10 Taught at gym in the morning then went on to Karlsruhe for Performance

19/10 Had Annika then Gym

20/10 WAS MUMMYS BIRTHDAY....Happy Birthday Mummy

21/10 Had Hanna 2:30-6:30

22/10 My kiddie dance classes started and Daniel and I had been together for 6 years!!

23/10 is empty

24/10 Puppy School

25/10 Taught at Gym

26/10 Annika 2- 5:30 then Gym

27/10 WAS MARKS BIRTHDAY Happy Birthday Mark

28/10 Hanna 2:30-6:30

29/10 Kiddies Classes 3-6 than Gym 8-9:30 (thursdays suck!)

30/10 empty

31/10 Puppy School and it was Laras Birthday, Happy Birthday Lara...and Happy Halloween

1/11 Went over to Hagners to Celebrate Laras birthday, was a public Holiday so no teaching at Gym

2/11 Annika 2-?? I've crossed out the time, so that means Sabine (Annikas mum) wasn't sure when she'd be getting home...and Gym

3/11nuttin

4/11 Hanna 2:30-6:30 (took her to puppet show...met new family who might need babysitter)

5/11 Kiddies Classes 3-6, Gym 8-9:30

6/11 Had performance in Karlsruhe

7/11 Puppy school was canceled for some reason..can't remember why

8/11 Gym 10:30-12:30

9/11Annika and no more Gym on Mondays...my class got moved to Tuesdays and given to someone else

10/11 Went to meet new family who live just around the corner form Dans parents and dans sister...wemt well, will have them every friday now

11/11 have crossed out Hanna...if i remember correctly she had something on at her Kindergarten and i wasn't needed

12/11 Kiddies Classes 3-6, Gym 8-9:30

13/11 Kallmeyer 3:30-6:30 (New family, 2 kids Philipp turning 6 and Julia turning 4) Got bashed up Philipp, FREAKED OUT, went home in tears and complained to Daniel all night...luckily no black eye

14/11WAS ANNIKAS BIRTHDAY, Happy Birthday Annika and Puppy School

15/11 Gym...classes have been cut back now Sundays only till 12 instead of 12:30

16/11had nothing! Annika parents had holidays so then didn't need me and no more gym on monday nights

17/11 also empty

18/11 Hanna 2:30-6:30

19/11 Had extra Beginers Pilates class in the morning...then normal Thursday Kiddies Classes 3-6, Gym 8-9:30

20/11 was supposed to have Kallmeyers, but Susans (the mother) father was coming out of hospital for a visit so got canceled

21/11 New group at puppy school...we've moved up! are not going to puppy group anymore...now we are practising to take the Team Test, so we can chose a sport and join the club properly...Are supposed to wait 6-9 months before we can do the test, but lady sed if we work hard when the dog is 12 months old thats the earliest you can do the test....so we are going to work hard and do the test in April and start Agility! WOOHOO

22/11 Gym in the morning to Karlsruhe for last performance in evening :(

23/11 canceled annika cause i went to an audition for My Fair Lady...didn't go well, they were looking for shorter ppl...

24/11 empty

25/11 had Hanna 5-9

26/11 Kiddies Classes 3-6 gym 8-9:30

27/11 Kallmeyers...got bitten by the little girl this time... HUGE BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS both of them! But thier parents have recently split so thats where its all stemming from, can't wait till i have them alone, no mum listening in...theres going to be SO MANY time outs happening!

28/11 PHILIPPS BIRTHDAY (nephew Philipp, not devil Philipp) Happy Birthday Philipp, and then i worked for Sutten, they had set the shop up as a gallery for the night and i was there to serve....litterally, i hate the stairs in that shop HATE HATE HATE

29/11 gym in the morning over to see Philipp and give him his present in afternoon and then fall into bed and it was the first advent! Lit a candle in the advent wreath when i got home

30/11 TODAY is Thorstens Birthday...Happy BIrthday Thorsten...Have annika 2-5:30 gotta go buy dog food and then maybe pop over to Hagners quickly this evening to give him his oh so expensive gift of Homer Simpson Slippers lol!

1/12, Tuesday, am going to Kallmeyers instead of on Friday 3:30-6:30...shall report at another time the injury i recieve THIS time...

2/12, Wednesday Hanna 7-9:30

3/12, Thursday Kiddies Classes 3-6, Gym 8-9:30

4/12, Friday Hanna 3-6...thinking of Cj, Connor and Dee dee on stage...

5/12, Saturday Puppy School 3-4

6/12, Sunday Gym and lighting next candle on Advent Wreath

7/12 Next Monday, diary is empty but only because i havn't filled it all in yet...but i'll be having Annika

8/12 Next Tuesday nothing

9/12 Next wednesday Hanna 3:30-7:30

10/12 Next Thursday Kiddies Classses 2-6 gym 8-9:30 and Griffos will be leaving OZ

11/12 Next Friday GRIFFOS ARRIVE HERE IN GERMANY!!!!! But i'll be gone for a few hours in the evening, to KAllmeyers 3:30- 6:30

12/12 Next Saturday Puppy School 3-4 is a friends birthday so will have to disapear for a few hours again, sorry but i promise we/i won't be gone long

13/12 Next Sunday Gym, 3rd candle on Advent wreath

and from then on... i'm not sure...probably much of the same with outing thrown in along the way..

Thursday 17/12 is last class for the kiddies class, then 2 weeks holidays, starts back on 7th Jan

No puppy school on 19/12 holidays starts back on 9th Jan

...and so on and so forth!

Nelly is napping here in my lap as i'm typing away....if she were awake i'm sure she'd say hello....

I have dyed my hair Red...and i'm wishing i'd had the foresight to put a bit on my eyebrows...

All christmas Presents are done except for jus and mark, dans parents and daddy...

I'm still desperate to go see New Moon...havn't found time to fit it in yet...will keep trying

and thats really about it

love ya's

mwah!

Someone PLEASE tell me that puppys grow out of rolling around in other dogs poo!

SERIOUSLY!

I don't know what i'm more annoyed about, Nelly constantly finding them and deciding they smell good enough to roll in or the damn ppl who don't pick them up!

I've had to bath her twice this week....which makes 3 times with the weekly 'dan' i-don't-want-a-stinky-puppy-bath......
She always gets bathed on Saturdays after Puppy school....but then on monday she found a poo and i had to bath her again and this morning, when i was being the nicest of mummys and took her to the big oval with the frisbee she found ANOTHER one so....ANOTHER bath. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Onto other things:

* I now know the treats i made last 4 days...then they start to go mouldy (eew!)

*AND my kiddie dance classes have worked out! I start teaching on the 22/10
3:00-4:00 Baby Ballet (maybe, possibily...depends if theres enough interest)
4:00-5:00 Junior Jazz (for kids in 1st to 5th class here so 6-10)
5:00-6:00 Senior Jazz (kids in 6th to 9th...i think so 11 to 14/15)

I might have to split some classes up like the ballet one, if i get really little ones and some not so little ones and of course if really little ones want to do a Jazz class i can split the Junior class, then i have 2 extra classes! WOO HOO

So this will all be on Thursdays....then when i'm finished at 6 i'll go straight into the city to take gym classes at 8....a bit of a break in between but at least then i'll have time to get some dinner i suppose.

The hall is in the cellar of a catholic church and its really nice...not perfect, but much better than i was expecting it has mirrored walls at front and back nice even floors lots of heaters (which was what i worried about lol) and windows all along the top of one wall and lots of lights...it has a little waiting area with kitchen-ette and everytihng, best of alli get my own key! woohoo! so i can come and go as i please.....to a certain extent....

I've already asked about the kids (cj, con and dee) they can do the classes too, no problems.

I've also re-thought what i'm going to do about work while Griffos are visiting.... the creche at the gym is open on Thursdays and Sundays when i give classes but not mondays....so i was thinking, i will ask/look for someone to fill in my Monday classes for the whole of thier trip so i have a bit of extra time with them....THEN while Jus and mark are away (and if u don't mind Jus) i can still teach on Thursdays and Sundays and take the kids to the Creche!! Connor will have his DS so he'll be right (lol) Cj can take a book and Dee Dee well, i dunno maybe Cj and Dee should stick together, join forces again the German kids lol...i always have a 5 min break in between so i can go check on them...plus on sundays Cj could join in and do the Jazz class.....

Iknow the ladys in the creche from when i help out there...they would get such a kick out of it all!

ok so i'm all typed out, i have 2 hours then i need to go pick  up Annika from kindergarten...i promised her we would take Nelly for a walk....lets hope Nelly stays poo-less...PLEASE!!!

MWAH

I made Nelly home mad dog treats the other day...
I got the recipe from a couple at puppy school, and it sounded so easy and i've always wanted to try to make some....well!

 the recipe is:

500g Liver (ew)
300g Oats
6 Eggs

Mix it all together, plop bits onto a baking tray and put in oven on 150° for Half an hour.

Dead easy right!

Well nothing went wrong, but mine didn't turn out the way the ones at puppy school looked...thiers were all lumpy and you could see bits of oats sticking out and stuff....

First of all, It was Saturday when i wanted to try it and the 'Village Butcher' wasn't open, but they have a butcher bit in the supermarket around the corner, so i went and got liver (ew) the lady took me to the fridges and handed me a packet, i needed it minced, or at least cut up and asked if she could do it, she gave me THE DIRTIEST LOOK and sed no we can't do that, because if we mince liver it will take a WHOLE 2 HOURS to clean the machine before we can use it again...i understood that so i left trying to decide if i'd take it packaged and cut it myself..i turned around and she was back behind the butcher bar bit and wispering to the other woman and pointing at me and shaking her head!!! SO RUDE! where else would u ask if they could mince liver (ew) for you if not at a butcher!?!?!?

Anyway, i took it and had to cut it myself (big huge enourmous EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW) it was all bloody and gross and we don't have good knives so it took AGES then i was worried, cause cutting and mincing isn't really the same, so i thought, i have to mix it wit the oats anyway so i'll do it in the mixer....its not that it didn't work, it did, it just made it all smooth and creamy looking instead of lumpy and chunky, cause the oats got cut up all fine...

so i plopped bitson the tray shoved in oven and they turned out well....just not exactly how they are supposed to...

Heres a pic of my foxy looking puppy!

and thats all there is, there isn't any more.

So my Nelly is so clever!

She can beg now! i have some photos and a little video of her doing it....
This first photo is of the Bow Birgit bought for her, lol! and she had it in when they met me at the airport....birgit couldn't get it to stand up though, i have the knack!


This last one looks a bit Gospel...'Praise the LORD!!!'
lol

and videos:
    

The last video here, i was looking at the video of pax again caus ei wanted to see if she would react to it... boy did she ever! lol so now heres a video of nelly going off at pax's video.....which means theres now another video for Pax to go off at...and so on, never ending stooooooryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ah ah aaaaaaaaa ah ah aaaaaaaaaaaaaa ah ah aaaaaaaaaaa

I think, every time i'm away somewhere i title the blogs that....

Anyway..Dan and his parents were at the airport to pick mne up, and they brought Nelly too and Dans mum had bought her a little red bow and put it in her hair...was so cute!!!

We got home unpacked, i gave Nelly her kitty (Whiskers) from Pax and it lasted a whole half hour....look at this!
   
Oh, the woof at the end is Dan..not Nelly, lol!

I gave Dan his hat and thongs and deodorant (lol) he loves it all and got stuck straight into the Dairy Milk as well...strange lad...


This was his get up when we went to his parents yesterday :D he was so excited and his dad gave it a go too, so now we know what to bring back after Christmas 2011 trip :D

Nelly spent ALOT of time with Birgit....like ALOT!! Shw sed to me yesterday that she misses Nelly little claws tip tipping around the house, lol....and she just had story after story to tell me about this walk about that day.....we have huge Nelly fans here now...the kids are alot more comfortable around her too which is great.

Teaching yesterday wasn't all that bad..only one person came for jazz and technically i'm not allowed to give a class unles theres 3 participants...so i did a stretch class instead and most of the pilates ppl stayed for that....then the bbq at dans parents and i went to bed at 9:30 pm woke up today at 9:30 am to a Nelly-lick-a-thon 'wake up mummy, take me for a walk mummy.....no? daddy!! wake up daddy, take me for a walk daddy!' was very cute

ok am off here are some other pictures from yesterday...


And Nellys newest trick:
  

And Nelly doing her tricks for Birgit and Lara:
  

Thats all folks!

Speak later!!

mwah!