It´s sanni-licious

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And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:

Homer: I’m hittin’ the road. Maybe I’ll drop you a line some day from wherever I wind up in this crazy old world…

TAILS - Who would you like to meet and why?

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The very first person coming to my mind is my grandma Anni. My mommy´s mom passed away 28 years ago.I´m glad I had the oportunity to get to know her when I was a little one. While my parents were working I stayed at my granny´s house during the first years of my life.

I loved her to pieces - and I still do. So many memories… I still can rememeber her scent, her voice and her eyes, her smile, the tea-times we shared and her love for roses.

She´s always had the best advices -

Whenever I don´t know what to do I ask myself: “What would granny do?”

I´ve never had the chance to say “Goodbye” to my beloved granny. I´d love to indroduce great-grandchildren to her, to thank her for everything she´s done for me, to give her a kiss and let her know how much I love and miss her.

I´m sure she knows already, but I´d love to let her know face-to-face.

Who would you like to meet and why?

Have a great Tuesday, folks!

And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:

Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

A Month-By-Month Review of our 2007…

January: The New Year started quite busy for me - without any resolutions (doesn´t work for me), but I started my “huge after pregnancy weightloss journey” adding lots of sports to my diet. What can I say? It worked =)

February: A month stuffed with plannings - for Luis christening. The “big day” was on February 18th, a perfect day.

March: Things calmed down - and the ease and peace bestowed another Crohn´s flare-up. Definitely not funny :,(

April: We celebrated Luis 1st birthday with a blast - one of my personal highlights 2007. He started to walk on his 1st Birthday.

May: A busy month again - I reached my weightloss goal plus I started designing all the bloglayouts for Pimp Your Blog.

June: Besides the celebration of my 33rd birthday (*ewwww*) - the Pimp Your Blog Shop opened its gate and we celebrated Jersey´s Birthday as well. She started blogging that day.

July: My PILs came to visit us - family fun… and we´ve had 2 Birthday celebrations. My beautiful Mommy´s and Coffee2go´s 1st Birthday.

August: Happy 41st Birthday, my love! We celebrated Frank´s 41st sun-orbit with a rocking party. Luis fell in love for the first time.

September: Happy Birthday to my Daddy - see, there´s always a good reason to paaaarty =)
We´ve also made a few short trips… Germany didn´t have a “real summer” this year, but the weather has been surprisingly calm this September.

October: Another highlight in 2007: The Halloween Party at our home…. and the fact that October is the month I got pregnant again (no more details) *smile*

November: WOO-HOO! A positive pregnancy test!!! A great reason to go on a very belated summer vacation to Spain =)

December: The whole December was dominated by… Christmas. What else? The ultrasound pictures showing my pregnancy with a little bundle of joy made us feeling even more festive =)
Having a look at the Christmas picture you can see I´m getting rounder and rounder again - obviously =)

Thank you all so much for your kind comments and wishes on the announcement. It really means a lot to me!

All in all it 2007 has been a (mostly calm) year full of love and joy to me and mine - I hope yours as well!
Happy New Year, everyone! Stay as you are - love ya! May your 2008 be filled with happiness and blessings galore.

And now…
… our last moment of Homer J. in 2007:

Homer: I want the answers now or eventually!

Yes, darling bloggie people, you were right. The good old German potatoe heads will be transformed into limeys for at least one and a half year. Our next huge adventure will take us to

London

The reason for this more or less big move is an outstanding job offer for Frank. Yes, we´re bribable *LOL*.

Of course we´re all excited… but the excitement is escorted by a bittersweet feeling, too. First and foremeost because Frank will move over alone for the first couple of weeks. We won´t see each other as often as usual (which means: daily). This will be very hard for us, but Luis and I will fly to London each weekend to snuggle against Frank and to find the perfect (and affordable) new home aaaaaaaand to go shopping *g*. We´ll pack some stuff and join Frank as soon as we found a home that´s big enough for all of us, including the furry diva.

Packing some stuff? Yes. We´ll keep our German home. We love this place and there´s way too much stuff in here to pack and unpack within these one and a half years. =) The really big move away from Germany will be after us being “wannabe Brits”.

The (grand-) parents are fine with our move. My parents are infected with the travel bug already. It´s a less than 2 hours flight for them (or for us) from Dortmund to London. It´s a one-hour-ride to visit us now, so it won´t be a dramatic change. My PILs are living in Spain anyway. So it doesn´t matter where they´ll visit us.

Our German friends told us they´ll miss us, but they´ll come to visit us as well. Might be the shopping prospective. The Brit-friends are looking forward to see us (unbelievable, but true. =] )

Of course you all are invited to visit us as well. Some of you said you´re green with envy. There´s definitely no need to. Just book a ticket and hop over. We´re pleased to be the perfect excuse for visiting your company´s foreign offices, your London guides or just your ordinary coffee auntie.

Thanks for playing the “Secret New Home”-Quiz last Monday and for your kind comments.
Here´s your lousy winning-badge *tee-hee*:

huge ((((HUGS)))) and little ***kisses***,

And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:

Marge: Homer! There’s someone here who can help you…
Homer: Is it Batman?
Marge: No, he’s a scientist.
Homer: Batman’s a scientist?!
Marge: It’s not Batman!