
Sarah says:
Heidi is probably holding her nose because we both stink of garlic from what we ate for lunch. Onions actually. I mean shallots. Strong ones. Bad aftertaste but great lunch!
It's weekend! That's a good thing. School starts for the kiddies here Monday so summer is coming to its end. It's cold. End of summer, pre-school cold. Days are darkening and shortening.
I have a home full of kids. I can hear them playing dress-up downstairs. They sound very vivid. While they sleep tonight and my husband is out at a music quiz that Heidi is at too - I will hopefully get some friends I have been wanting to call on the phone! It is very difficult to ever find time to call anyone. It barely happens. I long to talk to some friends from America but that damn 6 hour difference makes it a challenge. I hope I reach some tonight! I can't wait to see a few of them when I am in New York soon! In a little more than a month!
Anyone out there interested in buying a pretty row house right near our that has two apartments in it that you can rent-out after renovating a bit? It's Euro 165,000 ($ 225,000) to buy and needs at least Euro 20,000 ($ 27,000) of renovation so you'd be looking at Euro 200,000 ($ 275,000) at the end of the day. BUT - then you can rent out the two apartments and earn money each month - probably a combined amount of about Euro 1,100 ($ 1,500)!
Well - the kids are here now all dressed up and ready to watch TV. I have a strange feeling right now. I can't describe it well though. I have that end of summer feeling. That little dip feeling. A little darkness inside. Today I felt so happy and yesterday too and so full of good energy. But right now I have a sort of hole in my gut feeling. It will pass... I think it has to do with ends and beginnings. Saying goodbye to one thing and looking forward to another but hanging somewhere in between for the moment - one foot in the past and one in the future. I guess it just feels better to have both feet on the ground in one place and not to feel divided... Maybe that's the source of my dip feeling. Yesterday I felt like I was in the future and it felt great. Today I was more in the past than ever sort of... Time will solve it all!
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!