The people who owned this house before us, left the house in a very good condition... but you can tell they spent a whole lot time in the kitchen and cooked/ baked A LOT!!! Over the Thanksgiving weekend we'll get the kitchen floors redone :)... I'm a little afraid of the dust from the sanding of the wooden floors but on the other hand I bet it'll look awesome in the end. Just a little bit more cleaning for me to do afterwards :(... we'll see... maybe it's not too bad.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Disgusting grease
Grease the musical is totally cool, but not if you find all that grease in the oven. I cleaned the inside of the one oven the other weekend and now Frank takes the front apart to get the glass cleaned. He took out a lot of grease... *urgh*... 
The people who owned this house before us, left the house in a very good condition... but you can tell they spent a whole lot time in the kitchen and cooked/ baked A LOT!!! Over the Thanksgiving weekend we'll get the kitchen floors redone :)... I'm a little afraid of the dust from the sanding of the wooden floors but on the other hand I bet it'll look awesome in the end. Just a little bit more cleaning for me to do afterwards :(... we'll see... maybe it's not too bad.
The people who owned this house before us, left the house in a very good condition... but you can tell they spent a whole lot time in the kitchen and cooked/ baked A LOT!!! Over the Thanksgiving weekend we'll get the kitchen floors redone :)... I'm a little afraid of the dust from the sanding of the wooden floors but on the other hand I bet it'll look awesome in the end. Just a little bit more cleaning for me to do afterwards :(... we'll see... maybe it's not too bad.
King Bed - just like heaven
What a dream... we finally took out the Queen Bed apart and put down our new King mattresses... is that comfortable. And then additional to the comfortable mattresses we bought a mattress pad. Look how big this bed is :)
We love this bed, haven't spent a night in it yet but did some testing:
Here for the Europeans ;)... the box spring is on the floor (for now until we find a nice bedroom set we love and can afford). Then the king mattress that has an additional pillow top on it already (that was already comfi enough) and THEN we bought this very dreamy mattress pad (down) which lets you think you're in heaven. The bed comforter we'll put on top of all the sheets so it'll warm us at night because we sleep with open windows and it can become very cold in Michigan ;).
Now we're waiting on the washing machine to get the sheets and pillow cases washed and then we'll have a very good night tonight (not that we slept bad in the Queen, but we just love a King size bed). The other good thing is now, when Zoe has a bad night, no problem... she'll have enough space in our bed without us three squeezing together, we can just all spread out and have a good night sleep.
We love this bed, haven't spent a night in it yet but did some testing:
Here for the Europeans ;)... the box spring is on the floor (for now until we find a nice bedroom set we love and can afford). Then the king mattress that has an additional pillow top on it already (that was already comfi enough) and THEN we bought this very dreamy mattress pad (down) which lets you think you're in heaven. The bed comforter we'll put on top of all the sheets so it'll warm us at night because we sleep with open windows and it can become very cold in Michigan ;).
Now we're waiting on the washing machine to get the sheets and pillow cases washed and then we'll have a very good night tonight (not that we slept bad in the Queen, but we just love a King size bed). The other good thing is now, when Zoe has a bad night, no problem... she'll have enough space in our bed without us three squeezing together, we can just all spread out and have a good night sleep.Talking about Zoe, she's very mean today... stretches into places and kicks that are not very comfortable. That's her paying me back probably because I poke and try to feel her sometimes ;). Also she is positioned so low nowadays that I have to run to the restroom every 30 minutes *rolling eyes*...
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
30 weeks
And here we have our baby belly at 30 weeks. We have only 10 weeks left, or you can also count in days... 70 days!!! Boah... time is flying by.
Today we had another Midwife visit and I brought my huge list of questions with me (the midwife loved that). I had again Barb who I've seen today for the 3rd time, it seems that she'll be our No. 1 Midwife ;)... she's sooo nice. So we did took my blood pressure 3 times because it was high the first time and she wasn't hearing right, then we listened to the babies' heart beat (all good) and then we tested again my blood pressure and it was still quite high... I learned today that the first no. is counting the heart beat and the second no. counts the heart at rest. My heart beat was always very high so she wanted to go through all my questions and then test again. So I finally got off this terrible patient chair/bed and sat down next to it to feel more comfortable... we went through the questions, and then we tested my blood pressure again and this time it was only: 120/70 *YEAH*... isn't that awesome? So now we know that I have to get tested when I'm NOT on this stupid chair/bed :). Too funny...
Today we had another Midwife visit and I brought my huge list of questions with me (the midwife loved that). I had again Barb who I've seen today for the 3rd time, it seems that she'll be our No. 1 Midwife ;)... she's sooo nice. So we did took my blood pressure 3 times because it was high the first time and she wasn't hearing right, then we listened to the babies' heart beat (all good) and then we tested again my blood pressure and it was still quite high... I learned today that the first no. is counting the heart beat and the second no. counts the heart at rest. My heart beat was always very high so she wanted to go through all my questions and then test again. So I finally got off this terrible patient chair/bed and sat down next to it to feel more comfortable... we went through the questions, and then we tested my blood pressure again and this time it was only: 120/70 *YEAH*... isn't that awesome? So now we know that I have to get tested when I'm NOT on this stupid chair/bed :). Too funny... Zoe is doing awesome. She's positioned herself already with her head down. Also her movements are feeling different now... you actually can start feeling her body through my belly... I'm still testing to feel her and 'define' where is what... Frank is always a little worried and says: 'Don't poke my daughter!!!' But it doesn't bother her... I heard if you give her a lot of massages already when they're in the belly they won't need that many back rubs anymore when they're outside the belly. So Frank can save those back rubs for me *big smile*.
Also our coworkers' in Detroit gave us a baby shower today (here in the USA they have a 'gift party' already before the baby comes). It was a pretty moving experience... getting our first baby clothes for our baby!!! It hit us both... WOW... soon there will be our little one in these clothes! They've brought in very delicious food and after a nice dining with everybody we unwrapped the gifts: We got a crib :) and some very cute clothes, all in pink ;) and also a gift basket with this and that.
Jenny in Detroit
Our first visitors :)... and they were... Germans :). It was pretty amazing, last week Woelfchen (in Munich, Germany) contacted me and said that Jenny is going to visit me! 'Yeah, right!' I said... 'sure' ;). But he was right, it wasn't a joke... Jenny was sitting right next to him and we chatted and she told me that she's going to visit her good friend who just moved to Detroit with her husband. Isn't that a small world? Amazing... and sure enough, yesterday night the two girls came over and we hang out for a while and had a very nice chat. It was so unreal that the two were here but it was wonderful. It's amazing when the two worlds come together, my world in Germany and my world here in the USA. I wish I could have more of those amazing visits :). Here the proof... it's really us together in one place :)
We both enjoyed it so much, we hope that we can arrange another meeting maybe for dinner just before she's going to take off to good old Germany. THANKS Jenny to stop by, it was soooo good to have you guys here :)
We both enjoyed it so much, we hope that we can arrange another meeting maybe for dinner just before she's going to take off to good old Germany. THANKS Jenny to stop by, it was soooo good to have you guys here :)
Monday, November 16, 2009
Crooked truck
Look at this truck! We saw this truck today on a way to a sales call and I really thought this one was still driving... 'wow' I thought, 'it looks like it will tilt every moment'...
and when we past it I saw it was being towed *lol*... I just have weird imaginations!!! Hihi... Well, that was a very interesting view... I hope the truck driver made it though... if you look at the truck drivers house it doesn't really look like it though... :(
and when we past it I saw it was being towed *lol*... I just have weird imaginations!!! Hihi... Well, that was a very interesting view... I hope the truck driver made it though... if you look at the truck drivers house it doesn't really look like it though... :(
Saturday, November 14, 2009
29 weeks
Are there any volunteers out there who wanna carry my belly for a while??? Ojeeee... I'm getting bigger and bigger!!! My belly is getting in the way all the time now... :(... here it is... the 29 weeks big belly
But nevertheless I'm trying to get things done even with being 'handicaped'... first thing today I tackled down was the oven. We have two but I only need one for now because I wanna do home made pizza today. So it had to be cleaned first... here the oven before the cleaning:
ui :)... and afterwards:
Since I was in Chicago this week I needed to take advantage of it and went shopping in the polish store :). Vanille Pudding von Dr. Oetker :)... just a few more minutes and I can eat it :)
Other than that nothing out of the normal day to day operation is happening here. I think I won't see my husband that much this weekend, his 'mission' for this weekend is to go through all his cartons in the basement and sort out what he wants to keep, wants to give away/ sell and throw away. Since it's so nice and sunny out today I'll tackle down the landscaping outside next. This morning I bought some tools for the garden and I should enjoy this wonderful day (by the way, we have 19 degrees Celcius outside right now) *hihi*... anybody still thinks Michigan isn't a state to live in? *big smile*. I have to say it is so wonderful... the city we live in has everything that you need or it'll be next door, nice and not to big. The people are nice, the lake is just awesome, on the way home or leaving home we always pass the lake and enjoy the wonderful view... it's so awesome. And I don't even start talking about our house ;)... we really won the lottery... I'm telling you.
But nevertheless I'm trying to get things done even with being 'handicaped'... first thing today I tackled down was the oven. We have two but I only need one for now because I wanna do home made pizza today. So it had to be cleaned first... here the oven before the cleaning:
ui :)... and afterwards:
Since I was in Chicago this week I needed to take advantage of it and went shopping in the polish store :). Vanille Pudding von Dr. Oetker :)... just a few more minutes and I can eat it :)
Other than that nothing out of the normal day to day operation is happening here. I think I won't see my husband that much this weekend, his 'mission' for this weekend is to go through all his cartons in the basement and sort out what he wants to keep, wants to give away/ sell and throw away. Since it's so nice and sunny out today I'll tackle down the landscaping outside next. This morning I bought some tools for the garden and I should enjoy this wonderful day (by the way, we have 19 degrees Celcius outside right now) *hihi*... anybody still thinks Michigan isn't a state to live in? *big smile*. I have to say it is so wonderful... the city we live in has everything that you need or it'll be next door, nice and not to big. The people are nice, the lake is just awesome, on the way home or leaving home we always pass the lake and enjoy the wonderful view... it's so awesome. And I don't even start talking about our house ;)... we really won the lottery... I'm telling you. Ok, let's get ready for the next project to work on... first some pudding *yammi* :).
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