Laowai

It’s Wednesday. Not much is happening around here. Brian is traveling again so it’s just the girls and I all the time – gets a little tiring – uhg. It got cold here suddenly and we even had some snow on Monday. Bea was very disappointed when it was melted by the following afternoon. The cold has started me thinking about Christmas and crafts. I got all the wallpaper off the walls in our TV room and now I need to scrub the paste off with hot water. I keep telling myself that it won’t get done unless I work on it, but I find it hard to get motivated after the girls have gone to bed. So slow progress.

I bought some beautiful summery fabric to make Claire two duvet covers. They’ll be Christmas gifts. I’m hoping she likes them because there’s purple and there are strawberries: two of her favorite things.

Trader Joe’s makes me happy:

Here’s a squirrel sleeping in the tree in our backyard. The view out my window is so different here at our new house. I used to have a sweeping veiw of lake Zurich with the alps in the distance. I could see a huge sky and all the weather moving by. Now I have trees right next to the house and I see little birds and squirrels so close to the window. I keep the bird bath full and love to notice that it gets lots of use. It’s a more intimate view but I like it too.