Hi everyone,

 

it's been really weird to be at home and to not have the baby yet. I have so much time at hand but instead of using it, I watch ways too much TV. Well, it's nice to relax, too! And I am also moving to Rogers place, so I am packing and wrapping up things. I don't want to move out of my place at all, since it's so cozy and just looking like me but it's nonsense to have 2 appartements with the baby. I am excited and sad altogether. And I miss work but my body shows me my limits pretty clearly.

Other than that life is just as always. I've had Maeva, the little girl, quite often recently and can't believe she's in school already, since I remember her crawling all over the place as if it was yesterday.

This weekend my foodgroup "Anonyme Mitesser" is coming as well as my parents and Rogers parents. They're meeting for the first time and I really don't know what to cook yet since I am better at just cooking for 1 person rather than for 6! I better get used to that, though.

And most of all, I miss the States and all of you. I am still amazed at how much I am still in touch with people and overwhelmed at all those cute packages I got with babystuff. It's been over a year since I returned but I still feel as if Seattle is my true home and I need to face that I will probably stay in Germany longer than I thought now. On the other hand, Germany is beautiful, too. And thanks to Roger I've discovered more of Stuttgart the last year than I've seen of it my entire life. And he didn't even grow up here!

I hope I will update this more often now.

Karima was here for a visit just a month ago and we had tons of fun. Since I was at work during the day, Roger showed her around and she was also pretty unafraid to use the trains and busses to discover the area by herself. I hope to see her again, soon.

And Anne was here as well. She brought a friend and together they went down to see Karima for a couple of days. The weekends she did spend here, though. We are still in close touch and it's amazing to me, since she left the States at least a year before me.

And even Romy came by for a visit. She stayed for two days but we were both surprised it's actually not all that far from her to my place (measured by american distances of course). I hope to see her a couple of times more before she's moving to the States next spring.

Now I have pretty much exactly another month to go with this big belly of mine. I am curious how the little one will look like and if I will still be able to get some sleep within the next year, hehe. I hope it's not gonna come too soon since we haven't started with it's' room yet.

I'll keep you posted!