Don't worry 'bout that!

Hello again! Sorry for the delay in Blogs this week - we really didn't have any news to tell anyone and so I didn't bother to write anything! We have all been really poorly - Tim is still not well, 10 days after he first went down with it. Naomi was really not well for a good few days and Esther didn't seem to be too bad at the beginning of the week but went down hill rapidly on Thursday. By Friday she was quite unwell and the doctor prescribed some antibiotics for her. I wasn't sure whether they would have much effect if it was a viral infection but she has picked up dramatically the last 2 days so I was glad to have been proved wrong! I managed to have only a mild dose thank goodness - looking after all these poorly people meant that I have had a busy week! Anyway, I think we are slowly on the mend; the cough lingers so we sound bad!! It has not been good!

Consequently, we didn't go anywhere or do anything! We did manage to go and feed the ducks one day in the week - Naomi stood on the picnic bench and so was higher than the ducks whilst she was feeding them. She really enjoyed it up there and it was a great success from her point of view! She was funny though because once she had finished feeding them and got down, she was nose to beak with the ducks talking to them! I shall certainly do it that way again!

On thursday we went very briefly to look around a preschool for Naomi for September. It was local and looked good except for the fact that the children need to be 3 by the 1st October! THis seems to be the same for most of them although there are one or two that take them from 2.5 years.Anyway, we will have to see what happens and what we find - we have a couple to see this week!

Also on thursday we got to see Fritzi which was good. NAomi and she had a fabulous time sploshing in the puddles with their wellies on! They got very muddy! We then went back to Fritzi's house for some tea which was good too! Hopefully we will get to see her this week too!

Naomi went to the Issaquah Tots on Friday and enjoyed herself, although it really is geared to making little gymnasts out of the children rather than the free fun that they have at Notts Totts! It is going to take a little while to get used to certainly from Naomi's point of view, who can't see why she can't go and do what she likes as soon as she enters and has to do these funny exercises and be in an orderly queue when doing the obstacle course!! Some of the other mothers also take it all so seriously! I mean really, the children are less than 3! It is ridiculous! My philosophy is that Naomi can do what she likes when she is allowed to as long as she is enjoying climbing or bouncing or swinging without interfering with anyone else! I don't think I am taking it quite seriously enough!!! Gym was never my thing!!!!

We have had a better weekend this weekend then we did last. We wandered around Issaquah yesterday for a little while and went into the library which was good. Tim and Naomi then went shopping for a couple of hours, leaving Esther and I to have a lovely sleep in the afternoon! It was much needed, I can tell you! LAst night wasn't too bad which was good! Hopefully we will have a good night tonight too.

WE made it to church today - hooray! We then stayed on in Seattle and visited one of the city parks. It was an old gasworks and still had most of the pipes and tanks from when it had been a working gas works. It was a bit odd as they were just there in the middle of the park! The park has a great view of Seattle from the top of the hill and Naomi and Esther enjoyed watching the sea planes land and take off!

We then had a little drive around a bohemian part of Seattle that is famous for its art work. This included a huge statue of Lenin bought by someone from Issaquah from Slovakia after the revolution and this most enormous troll that lives underneath the bridge! It was really quite funny!!

Naomi has come out with a couple of little gems this week. one Sentence that she has been using it "I don't believe my eyes!, which sounds so funny from her! The other one is "Don't worry 'bout it" to any question you ask her. So Tim says to her this evening "Time to come out of the bath now Naomi!" "Don't worry about it" she says in reply!! It is almost (but not quite) accompanied by a gallic shrug! Anyway, she certainly seems very relaxed about life right now so that is good!!!

Esther continues to crawl around looking for mischief! She was after Naomi's jigsaw the other day and even when Naomi hid it underneath the coffee table, Esther managed to crawl in after it!! I found it quite funny! Naomi wasn't quite that amused!!!! "Mustn't do that Edder" She said!! She hates taking her antibiotics and showers me in pink medicine twice a day! However, she is definitley better so she must be taking some in!

Anyway, need to go to bed now! Our normal weekly routine begins again!

Take care!

Poorly Sneaths

It has not been a good few days here in Issaquah! TIm and now the girls are unwell with a flu like virus and have all been very poorly. Tim was off work on Friday and isn't going in tomorrow either and has spent a lot of time in bed. Naomi has been very good at looking after Daddy and has been asking him if he is "all better now?" However, she has now gone down with it too, although she isn't too bad once the medicine is in her system. Poor thing she was feeling rough this morning and was saying "go doctors" but a little while later she was "much better now!" Eshter has it too and is not sleeping this evening! Agh!! Hopefully she will drop off again soon - she has been awake for ages.

We haven't done a lot consequently and even on Thursday, we didn't get to the play session as I got hopelessly hopelessly lost and in the end turned round and came home. I was so cross and frustrated! I don't think I have given up before! Anyway, Ulrike made me feel better by saying she did it too when she first came so I didn't feel quite so stupid!!

We did however, successfully find a park with Animals on Thursday afternoon with Fritzi and Ulrike and the girls had a great time looking at all the animals. They really haven't worked out that they are not speaking the same language yet and just grab each other by the arm if one of them wants to go somewhere with the other! It isreally very funny! They were holding hands too and looking very sweet! We had a lovely time at the park and will definitely go back there - it is a replacement to the farm we had in Nottingham!

On Friday we managed to find Issaquah Tots!!! Hooray!!! It is not like Notts Totts in as much as it is a more formal gym class rather than a relaxed play gym session and certainly the lady who is the teacher is not as accommodating of younger children in the class - she got quite stressed that Esther was around and suggested that I left her with a neighbour! I said no! She certainly isn't going to pick her up if she cries like the lovely ladies in Notts Totts used to!!! Esther can't start until she is 18 months so I shall have to work out a long term solution so that Naomi can go. Naomi loved it and I have signed her up for the rest of the school year! Bless her, she had obviously missed it! Funnily enough it is even at the same time as Notts totts too!! So our days are getting quite full!

One thing that I need to do urgently is find a pre school in the area to enrol Naomi in for the "fall'! I am not quite sure what to do but I need to do it soon. There is one at the community centre which may be Ok - the open day is this thursday, so we shall see. I am not bothered about it being a great learning institution right now, somewhere where she can learn to be in a more formal learning setting will be just fine for now!

We really haven't done anything this weekend at all, not even go to church, which just shows how poorly they have all been. However, we hope that Tim is on the mend as he is feeling a bit brighter now than earlier, which is good.

Anyway, I am going now as Esther is still unsettled and I need to try and go to bed! Will write again soon!

Is there an Ark near here?

Good evening from a very very very wet Issaquah! I was seriously looking for a big boat with Animals entering on Monday in particular!! I have never seen it rain so heavily for so long in my life! I kept thinking that it would clear up in a bit and it didn't! We got absolutely soaked just going from the car to the shops on Monday! However today is has been dry and really warm so we made up for it and went to the park! The children enjoyed the swing and the train shaped climbing frame! NAomi was good at the slide too! Mind you it was very busy as everyone thought the same thing - get the children out whilst it is dry!!

We haven't done much because of the weather really! We popped in to a craft shop on Monday which was fun and bought some glitter, which somehow Naomi opened and it went everywhere! Anyway, we had most of it! We also managed to finally buy a kitchen bin! Hooray! On Tuesday we went into SEattle for our group at church which was good. Next week we are having a proper English Cream Tea with scones and proper tea! Everyone thought this was a novel idea! I just must remember to make some now!!

Last night , a good friend of Tim's from Microsoft UK came for dinner as she is here on a conference. We had a lovely evening with her and a nice meal - courtesy of Jamie Oliver!

Today we had our group in the morning and Fritzi and Ulrike came which was good fun! Naomi and she played together and got up to mischief! Naomi is really hard work at the minute, being Miss Independent and not doing as she is asked. I hope it is only a phase! And a short one at that! She can be so lovely one minute and a real pain the next! Her favourite word is No, and is usually her default answer!

However, she has her cute moments like saying to me "Hear a nake (snake)"
"where?" I reply
"in the garden"., she says!

Or "hear a tiger"
"Oh no where's the tiger?"
"In the cupboard!"

Esther is crawling everwhere and being very interested in herself in the mirror. I was watching her this morning clapping and laughing at her self! She looked very funny! She nearly got us thrown out of the library this afternoon though as she was so tired she was crying and crying and the librarian very pointedly said to me "is this your child?" I wasn't quite sure whose child she thought she was since I was standing next to her trying rapidly to choose some suitable books. Goodness knows what we have ended up with this time!

Anyway, that is about all our news for now! Hope you are all well and not getting as wet as us!!

Fritzy!!!

Hello! Hope this blog finds you well and have had a pleasant weekend! We had a busy day yesterday but a quieter one today which was great especially from the washing point of view!!

We have been excited this week as we have made a new friend! Naomi had said to me earlier on in the week that she wanted a friend, mainly I think because she has missed children of her own age to interact with. On thursday we went to our East side mothers club to go for a supermarket tour (more on this later!). We struck up a conversation with a German lady (Ulrike) who wanted to know where we had been for Naomi's eye test. Her daughter is 2 (about a fortnight/ three weeks after NAomi) and is called Fritzy (unsure of spelling!!). Naomi and she ended up sharing a trolley whilst I pushed Esther round and they got on really well. After the tour, Ulrike and I were swapping information and Fritzy and Naomi were playing and laughing. They both seemed really happy around each other and interacted really well. This was all the more surprising since Fritzy's first language is German!

Anyway, since Fritzy and Ulrike live in Redmond we decided to meet up in Marymoor Park in Redmond in the afternoon. Naomi was really excited and was asking about Fritzy over all the lunch time and couldn't wait to get to the park! The girls played really well together and it was great to have a play mate for her in the park! Ulrike and I had a great chat and I am going to go out for a Micorsoft Mum's night out on WEdnesday with her. We will probably see each other again early on this week as we have both missed non formal companions both for our selves and for our children. I honestly haven't seen Naomi play with anyone so well since we left Barnabas, Zak and Harriet in Nottingham and so I hope that this is a friendship that blossoms and is beneficial to us all!

The supermarket tour was a great PR event! BAsically the children were given a bag and a guy took us around the shop showing us different sections and gave the children a taster of different departments. So they received a bit of cheese, a cookie, some sweets and a piece of fruit. It is my belief that they are aiming to show the Mums what a lovely place it is to shop so that you will come back! The last thing they show you is the creche where you can leave your children which got the children excited too! It is too far for us! Naomi enjoyed it although she was very confused when I was trying to explain that we were going to the shop but that we weren't going to buy anything! She said "Mummy go shopping, buy things!" very firmly to me!

I have managed to confuse both my children at different times this week! I had to wash Esther's mat earlier on and she was so confused when I went to put her down on the floor without it. She gave me such a reproachful look that I had to explain that it was OK, she could sit down and still play without the mat! She didn't look convinced and was much happier when the mat reappeared! I finally got round to putting some BAtteries into Naomi's Balamory play house this week too, which confused Esther when the BAlamory tune started to play - she kept on looking at the television but of course there was no picture!! Poor child!

NAomi has been enjoying her James' jumper that Grandma Beads knitted her for Christmas. She has been wearing it with great pride and has been looking at herself in the mirror! She thinks it is fab!!

We had a bit of a disastrous day on FRiday as we were supposed to be meeting up with someone in McDonalds for lunch but they were ill and couldn't make it but were not able tolet us know before hand! Consequently we still went! I hate MCDonalds even with their play places especially over lunch time. It is really hard to order, pay, carry the food whilst holding Esther and ensuring that NAomi doesn't run off! THey refused to warm up Esther's dinner and won't carry anything for you! Honestly it is like taking part in Crackerjack!!!

Anyway, we went shopping in the afternoon - t his time to buy things! NAomi was pleased!!

Yesterday it was the churches Annual meeting and for the first time, Esther was able to go somewhere with out me as she is only breastfeedind a little bit now in the day time. Tim took the girls to the aquarium which they all loved and I went out for a nice meal and to the meeting. It worked well!

Esther is now crawling forwards m uch to our amusement today as she was after NAomi's crisps!! Everytime Naomi moved them she would go a bit further forward. She is also clapping herself too when she knows she has done something clever! She is so noisy too! The lady who looked after her today said that she thought Esther was quiet but then had to eat her words!!

We went to Ian big noses party today after church (he is 4), which was fun! Naomi had her first go at pin the tail on the donkey, although it was not all that successful!....

WEll, that is all for now! Keep well, will write soon!

Snowmen

Hello! Not too much news today I am afraid! WE haven't done much! Yesterday we had a quiet morning reading stories, webcamming GRanny and Grandad and playing with the toys before we set off for the Mum's group at church. We had a pleasant afternoon and managed to get home in time to get to the post office.

Esther has had the giggles the last couple of days - laughing at anything and any one. Yesterday she was in peels of laughter over her toes, which made us laugh too!! She gives Tim the biggest beamiest smiles when he comes in from work normally but yesterday she was laughing too she was so pleased to see him! Mind you he is funny!!

Naomi is fine and continues to amuse us with her talking. Today she was saying to dolly "wait 2 minutes!!" How often must I say that?!!! Her baby now not only has a nappy wrapped round her ears but a bib too!! Poor baby!! I made the mistake of taking baby's bib off this morning to put on Esther - Naomi was most put out!! I had to go and find another one!! Her favourite word this week is "aybe" short for "maybe" and so all her sentences are beginning "aybe I'll have an apple pot!" or "aybe I'll watch Thomas!" I am on a politeness drive at the minute and she is beginning to know when to say please and thank you. Also I am trying to get her to "ask in her nice voice" rather than demanding or whinging at me! It is beginning to pay off, although sometimes she says "leaseankoo" all at the same time - perhaps with the hope that I will be satisfied with one of them!!

We have been to our group this morning and have made snow men - Naomi's look very jolly! The idea was that you dipped a marshmallow into the paint to make the snowman. I was glad that Naomi didn't know what a marshmallow was - I didn't fancy her eating a silver painted one!! It was a bit of a sticky session though. I have got some contact numbers for groups around Issaquah which I am going to chase up so that we can find one or two that are closer to home. For now, we will enjoy this one and probably will continue to go for the rest of this academic year. One thing that both girls enjoy at the group is a parachute game. Esther loves the fluttering colours and Naomi is starting to enjoy being underneath it and feeling the wind. When we came home this morning Naomi had found an plastic sheet with a giant snakes and ladders board on it which she was calling her parachute! SHe was getting cross with Esther as Esther wanted it too! Thankfully it was lunch time and so a dispute was averted!

Tomorrow we are going for a tour around a supermarket - having secnd thoughts about this but will go and see what it is like! On Friday we are meeting up with a lady and her little boy who we haven't seen in ages so that will be good! I will blog again over the weekend. Bye for now!

Children and Costco

Hello! Just a quick blog tonight to share our funny experience with you today! We went to a wharehouse shop called Costco this morning and it was enormous - wven Naomi said" Enormous shop, Mummy!" I only wanted a few things and thankfully Imet a friend of mine who put me in the direction of the nappies - otherwise I think I would still be there now! Everything was piled high - apples, bananas, wine, clothes, tv's, nappies, cheese, the lot. I think it will take for ever to learn where things are. It was cheap though - I bought 36 toilet rolls for about $14. I don't think that I will need to buy toilet rolls until the summer at least!! The way to do it I think is to buy non perishable things for a month there and then you can buy everything else in smaller doses in a different supermarket. Believe me, this was quite an experience!!

THe children are fine and have benefitted from having a quiet day today! NAomi and I did some jigsaws this morning which was fun and then we did some craft this afternoon. ESther and I had a play with the animal noise jigsaw which she liked! She loves singing and stories at the minute too! She is really on the move and has started to pull herself up which is good. She has started to babble today - so mcuh so that I couldn't get any breakfast in her as she was so proud of her babbling that she didn't want to eat!! She had spagetti bolognese today for tea which she loved - it was the first time she had had it -she did better than NAomi!

Esther was sitting on my knee playing with the tinsel yesterday. She was so happy! She was smiling and making all her happy baby noises! She kept on lifting it up to show me and then would bury her face in it so it would tickle and then she was laughing! She was prodding and pulling at it too - I had to be careful she didn't eat it!

NAomi made me laugh today. She was cupping her hand behind her ear when she heard a noise adn saying "hear it" - she was so funny that I was laughing which made her do it more and more! She looked so sweet! She was helping mummy today by putting the bibs away in the drawer for me too! She loves doing things like that! SHe gets quite cross if I find the nappies now! She puts them back and finds different ones!!

Anyway, got lots of things to do! Will stop now!

diapers / nappies they are all the same!!

Hello from a slightly snowy Issaquah! We woke up this morning to snow but it has all gone now! It is still fairly chilly though so it may snow again overnight!

We have had a busy few days! We went to the East side mothers club on Thursday morning which was interesting as it gave me a bit more idea of what we need to do for a pre school for Naomi. In the afternoon Naomi had her eyes tested with her glasses on - all seems to be going well, which is good! And then we went food shopping. The only problem was that I went to pay and then realised that my purse was at home so we couldn't take the shopping home! This upset Naomi "No shopping, no shopping" she wailed!! I rang Tim to see if he could come and collect and pay for it but when he got there, they had lost the shopping! So we had to wait until the girls were in bed and then I could go back and locate it and pay for it and bring it home! What a performance - make mental note - do not do it again!

On Friday one of our new neighbours came round with some information for me on groups and activities for the girls, it was such a nice thing to do that I was really touched! I shall spend some time looking at them and then I shall see what we can go to.

A little later, Becky and Eli came for lunch. Eli is 6 months and he and Esther get along very well. Naomi is good with him too so we had a nice time. Poor Becky, though, Naomi in her helpful mode put a slice of bread on Becky's plate but it was a moth eaten crust that was only fit for the ducks! We retrieved it! Poor Naomi she was trying to be helpful;!!!!

Later on Gretchen came round to play with the children ( she lives over the road) and that meant that I was able to do a little more of my cleaning! WE are nearly there, although general housework never finishes does it!!

Saturday was a busy day. We had a meeting at Church, basically it was a pre membership class if you are considering becoming members, which we are. It was long and there was lots of discussion and then we went to Becky and Darins for lunch which was great!! We had a lovely afternoon with them. WE walked down to the lake and fed the ducks and then went back up to the swings and slides for Naomi. Eli had his first swing and Esther also enjoyed hers!!
We were out on Saturday from 8:50 am until 6"30pm and so the children were tired!

Today has not been much better as we went to church this morning and then stayed in SEattle to meet with the family of Tim's boss. We had a lovely afternoon there! They have a house that would have an amazing view of SEattle on a clear day! It was right at the top of this enormous hill - I was glad that there wasn't any snow!!! I think we would never have got up t here!

This morning we had a slightly different service at church as it was a dedication service for some of the children. We were all asked to keep the children in with us and then we had to stand up as a family and introduce our children. I made the mistake of describing Naomi's dolls that have "nappies" wrapped around up by thier ears only to have a voice say to me "diapers", which I then had to say! It made everyone laugh anyway!! It was nice for the families to be able to do this!

Anyway, I must go and clear up downstairs. We are fine here - the children are great and will appreciate a quieter day tomorrow! Will write soon!

Snowy Days

Hi there! Greetings from a beautifully sunny but very chilly Seattle! THey are forcasting snow this weekend which will cause much excitement here I am sure! I hope that the snow isn't too bad - we won't be able to get up or down our drive if it is too heavy! It is bad enough getting up the drive and in the garage door with about 3 cm space each side of the car without it being snowy too! I hold my breath each time I have to drive into the garage!

We have returned this week to our normal activities which has been great fun! It has been lovely to catch up with some of our friends at church this week and to get to know the people who also go to the group at the Redmond Community Centre a little better. We made glittery snow flakes today in the group - NAomi was very good at applying the glitter!!!

We went to find some snow on Monday and had a beautiful drive up to the mountains to Snoqualmie PAss. It was very cold up there (minus 6 degrees) and there was lots of snow but we were all dressed warmly - I counted that Esther had 7 layers between her and the cold! - and so we enjoyed it. Like most things you learn as you go along and so we now know where the best place is to take the children and that we also need a sledge! A very kind lady leant us her sledge so that Naomi and Tim could have a go (I was wearing Esther on the papousse so I didn't think it was a good idea for me to go! Shame!!) and after an unsure start Naomi enjoyed herself! I really ought to go and buy some snowy clothes before the snow arrives but I am not sure whether we will have the time!

We went to Church yesterday for the mum's group which was good and lovely to catch up with the other mothers that go. It had been a long while since I had seen them to have a proper chat as I missed the last one in 2004 as it was the day we moved house, so we had a lot to catch up on as well as do our bible reading!!

Naomi has been very helpful around the house recently. She loves to do the things that Mummy and Daddy do and is very good at fetching me the nappies out the cupboard for her and Esther when I change her. She is however putting nappies on almost all of her toys and they look so funny with this huge nappy engulfing them and usually wrapped around their ears. Both her baby doll and the doll that her granny knitted have nappies on and today the little piglet that was a present from my cousin and his girlfriend last Christmas (she loves this!) also had a nappy change!! THankfully the toys only seem to have a "wet nappy!"

Today I was a little slow at peeling her satsuma and came into the dining room to find her doing it very successfully herself. As I was still distracted in her eyes by feeding Esther she then very kindly peeled my satsuma and left all the separated segments by the side of my plate and she was very insistent that they were mummys!! She was so sweet!

WE have to be careful what we do and say at home now as NAomi is so quick at picking things up. She made me laugh yesterday as she was lying on the floor saying 'glasses high up mummy". WEll I couldn't work out what she meant at first and it wasn't until she said "like Granny" that I knew what she meant! Granny prefers to wear her glasses on the top of her head rather than on her face and Naomi was copying that!!! So Granny, you need to wear your glasses properly because you are still teaching your granddaughter bad tricks even from afar!!!!!!

Well, weather permitting we are off to Kirkland tomorrow for a East side mother's club meeting and then a friend is coming on Friday, which will be nice. I will write again over the weekend, so bye for now!!

Esther is on the move!!

Happy New Year! Hello and Welcome to 2005! I hope that this will be a year of peace and blessing for you all and one that will bring enjoyment.

We started the new year quietly at home with 2 sleeping children! We watched the fireworks from the Space needle on the television and they were wonderful - the best choregraphed firework display that I think that I have seen since the millenium ones. Perhaps one year we will be able to go! People were gathered near the fountain that NAomi and I got wet in last week - I had a drier view this time round!

On New Years Day we went shopping to Lowes - a bit like Homebase or B&Q - and bought some new things for our house. One thing we bought was this very long pole that extends so that TIm was able to change the lightbulb in our vaulted ceiling. It was very funny to watch! You attach the light bulb to a suction pad and then wave it in the direction of the light fitting and hope that you get it in. Tim did it eventually but not without me having to stand underneath to catch it with a duvet at one point when the suction cap worked loose!! Naomi was not impressed that her duvet was being used in such a way!! The hall is now much brighter and believe me every light bulb counts!!

WE have had a good few days this week. Tim has been working from home so that has been nice and I think really beneficial to the children, Naomi especially as she has now understood that this is home I think. We went to a new park both Friday and Saturday which was fun although cold. I had to wipe the ice off the swing before Esther could sit down!! Brr! WE also went shopping on THursday to one of the malls which was nice. There are some lovely shops in there!!

On thursday one of the girls who lives accross the road (she's 12) came round to play with the children whilst I got on with cleaning the downstairs. It was really beneficial and we are now clean and mostly sorted downstairs now. Gretchen was lovely and played with them really well and earnt her $10! IT made life a lot easier for me! We also met one of our neighours who came round, which was nice. She has a little girl who is 3 so it would be nice if she and NAomi became playmates!!

We have had some friends around for lunch today which was lovely. It was nice to get to know them better and also a good excuse to do some cooking. I have made lots of meals for Naomi and ESther so that is good. Esther is getting used to eating more exciting food now so I am pleased. I just need to be brave and start stopping her feeding in the night but I am not sure that I have the energy yet!

One exciting piece of news is that Esther is now starting to crawl backwards which is great except that she is usually trying to go forwards!! She will get there I am sure! She is so wriggly that sometimes she wriggles to wear she wants to go. She loves watching Naomi "boi - ing" and NAomi likes to make her laugh by jumping up and down (boi -ing). Naomi tries to help Esther go forward sometimes but usually only succeeds in pushing poor Edder onto her nose!

Naomi loves to sing at the moment and if you sing slowly will sing along to the nursery rhymes with you. It is really sweet and I love to hear her sing! She is copying all sorts of words and came out with "poplace" the other day - it was a crossword clue in case you are wondering! The downside of her being able to express herself so well is that she can say "I don't want to come out the bath, I want to stay in longer!" YEs, Naomi! THen you have to persuade her!! She is pretty good though! She has imaginary conversations with various members of the family and it is a good way of working out what she has understood or remembered of our days' activities!

Tomorrow we are seeing another couple from church which will be fun and then our normal activities kick off again which will be great as I have missed them. So I will sign off now and will write again soon!

lots of love!!