Oh the horror! A hole!

And here's the "accident" I told ya'll about last week ...

Kitchen Pictures (construction)

So here's a few pics from the construction (all the pale/vanilla colored cabinets are from our old kitchen):

Okay - this pic is sideways, but it's our fridge/cabinets (our fridge is only the middle cupboard - our freezer is in the laundry room). Sadly, we're covering up Henry's chalkboard that we just added this winter ...
Here is BJD and his brother cutting out the countertop for the stovetop and the sink:
Not sure what Bubba Joe's Opa is doing here, but it has been a familial affair, getting this kitchen installed:

Sitting here, just waiting

and enjoying the silence.

And the feeling of no-nauseousness. It started last night.

Must be all the Subway I've eaten lately. BTW - that's what lunch was the other day. Now normally, I'm not a huge Subway fan. But Subway is a piece of home and it tasted JUST like what it tastes like at home. Which you may think would be a given. Nope. Mickey D's - not the same. I don't know why, but Germans have NO clue how to make a burger. Either they mix pork and beef for the patties (ew, gross ... I mean, why bother?) or the buns are too thick and dense.

Right now, Bubba Joe is enjoying a nice walk with his Opa and his cousin in the double-stroller I found on ebay here for 30Euro. The doggies are asleep on my bed. And it's quiet.

I know I should be cleaning, but I'm just enjoying the silence.

Still full from lunch

and now little man is getting up ... I'll be back.

March 19th

That's the due date.

Which means that I'm exactly 8 weeks pregnant today.

And boy do I feel it! Ugh, I forgot how much I do *not* like being pregnant. I feel so nauseous all the time. Stretchy pants are my best friends and the girls, well, let's just say that the girls hurt.

Henry's dealing with it all well enough though. When I'm tired, he'll chill and watch his Bob or Thomas or Maus dvds or will go and bauen (build) with his toys in his room.

And when you ask him if he wants a brother or a sister ... most of the time he says brother, but today he said sister. I think brother is easier to say.

I just want a full 9 months - and NO PE!

I see our regular OB in 4 weeks, and then the very next day, meet with the high risk doctor over at the Frauenklinik at the Uni-Klinik in Muenster (basically the woman's hospital at the university hospital in Muenster).

Oops! (a kitchen update)

Most of the shelves are in place. The entire bottom cupboards are installed, complete with a countertop.

But today ... BJD tells me that as he was drilling in the wall, he hit the power cord. You see, he didn't follow the line all the way up to the electrical outlet. Or maybe he did, but he didn't put 2 and 2 together. So he hit a power cord ... went clean through.

Hang on ... let me upload some images ... I'll be back.

Kitchens

We made a decision to build out our kitchen. Well, let me explain a bit.

In Germany, it's common when you rent that you have a room with the hookups - water, electric - but the kitchen cabinetry itself belongs to the renters. They *can* sell it to you if you want, or you bring your old one with, or, like us, you have to buy new.

Buying new is NOT cheap. But, we found a single module kitchen for 1k Euro. Of course, nothing in Germany is fast. We still had to wait 6 weeks for it to arrive. Then, because of the cheap price, we had to pick it up ourselves and install it ourselves.

The problem is, it was small. Which leads us to this year. and IKEA.

We looked around. To get a new kitchen that better utilizes our space would cost minimum 3k Euro. To add to it with pieces from where we originally bought it would cost 1.5k.

We went to IKEA, came up with a great design (I now have drawers!!! I love drawers!!!) and paid just under 1k.

The problem is, the door color we chose is beige - they're selling out of it. And because of my love of drawers, it's been now 3 weeks and 3 IKEA stores before we've finished finding all the pieces.

The Dortmund store, where we originally shopped, was supposed to have all the doors in inventory. Yeah right. So much for computers.

So we went to Kamen yesterday (by Dortmund-ish). They had the one door we needed for the apothekeshrank (think tall, thin cupboard with 2 doors and lots of drawers that pull out when you open the doors). But they didn't have the drawer door.

They called the Osnabruck store. We waited and waited and waited while Kamen called Osnabruck (computer said they had 1 in stock!), Osnabruck confirmed there was in fact 1 there, placed it in a reservation for us, and BJD is on his way there this morning to pick it up.

Now, if only we could finish building out the kitchen ...:)