We are still here...just busy!

I got on the laptop today that has the blog as the homepage...and noticed I haven't posted since Jan. 1st!!  OOPS!!  It's just been a busy time, and we haven't been on any trips lately, so I just get bogged down in "normal" life and forget to update the blog...sorry...will try to do better!

Update on us...January has been pretty busy, but pretty uneventful.  We survived R's first TDY back to the States, leaving us here alone in Germany for a week.  No major issues while he was gone, so that was great!

We have been househunting, and found a new home to move into.  We continue to have issues with our current landlord.  We move to our "new" home in February...so we have a lot of work in our future.  But I think it will be a better home for us, and definitely a better landlord situation.

The girls got semester report cards this week, and they both have all A's & B's.  Yay girls!

Little R continues to attend German kindergarten, and continues to refuse to speak any German!! : )

And that's about it..."normal" life for us!  But I will leave you with one little tidbit of how my day went today....

Germans like "see thru" stairs in their homes.  In ALL their homes!  I despise the "see thru" stairs for a number of reasons:  the cat fell through them her first day here (still have no idea how she wasn't injured); fear that 4-yr old boy will fall through them at least 20 times a day; dirt and dust collects underneath the stairs in the basement, because it all falls through from the upper floors; and there are others, but that is all I can think of right now.  But today an event occurred that caused me to despise the see-thru stairs EVEN MORE!!

Imagine an active 4-yr old boy, who is always busy.  Usually too busy to go to the bathroom until the VERY last second!  Imagine this 4-yr old boy, pulling down his pants & underwear to his ankles and running for the 1st floor bathroom.  Now imagine that 14-yr old sister is in that bathroom with door locked!  4-yr old boy then realizes his only hope is to get to the 2nd floor bathroom in like 10 SECONDS!!  Imagine 4-yr old boy walking upstairs (with his pants & underwear still at his ankles, hindering his progress).  About halfway up the stairs to the 2nd floor...TOO LATE...peeing EVERYWHERE!!  Imagine this would be bad enough if it was normal stairs...it would be puddling and running down the stairs.  But NO...in the world of "see thru" stairs it is puddling...then running down between the stairs to next stairway below, all the way down to the basement.  As the pee runs through the stairs, it is hitting the basement floor with such force (remember it is coming from almost the 2nd floor) that it is splattering everywhere downstairs!!  Have I mentioned we use the space under the stairs for storage???  PEE  EVERYWHERE...on the stairs, running through the stairs, and hitting the basement floor and splattering ALL OVER everything!!!!  Ummm....yeah....that was fun to clean up...

And there you have it...you are updated!  : )  Never a dull moment in the Willis household! : )