I find it harder to get out of my warm bed in the winter time. It's never easy for me to wake up in the morning, but harder in the winter. We turn the heat off at night to save energy. Juergen and I take turns getting the kids out the door in the morning. This morning it was my turn. Poor Juergen still needed to get up because it was to dark and foggy for Nicole to walk to the Street car alone. Thomas told me 2 minutes before his bus came that he needed to bring sugar to school. The class is baking a cake today. I am not really a baker (Germany has such good bakeries, why should I try to reinvent the wheel). I often don't have sugar in the house. I did not have it this morning. Now I need to drive to the store, buy sugar and take it to his school (20 minutes away by car). Sometimes I wonder how we manage it? The lost shoes in the morning, the parent teachers meetings, the help with the home work etc... everything!
Philip sat on the sofa this morning playing a number & letter game. He needed to draw a line from A to B, then 1 to 2, followed by B to C etc. Last year he would not have been able to do this game. He could not recognize symbols. I sat across the room with my precious cup of Luke warm coffee(I love hot coffee but that never seems to be possible) amazed at the progress. Soon they will all be grown up and I'll be able to sleep in on a cold winter day. I'm sure the extra sleep won't be half as nice as watching Philip do his number letter game! Well,maybe half as nice!
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