New schedule

So today ends my first week as half day nanny :) Since monday my little girl is going to pre school from 9.15 am to 12.15pm everyday :)

So my schedule completely changed. My workday looks usually like this now:

• 11.40 am: leave the house for pick up
• 12.15 pm: pick up in DC
• 12.45 pm: back home - read, play
• 1.30 pm: nap time until 3.30pm
• 4.00 pm: snack time, play, read
• 5.00 pm: play date or parc
• 7.00 pm: off

When my little girl is doing her nap, I am preparing her dinner and her lunch for the next day, clean up her lunch box and laundry. On fridays I don't have to cook ;)

With that new schedule I have my mornings all for my self. I can use all the time to study, do some household, run some errands and plan our wedding :) and it was pretty nice waking up at 7am knowing that I don't have to sit in traffic like everyone else :D just love my new schedule!

Back at work

Whoop today is my first day back at work after a three week vacation :D but I have to say it goes pretty nice. No screaming or crying from the baby - all fine! Even the waving goodbye to her mom was the usual :D wow! So we are pretty much right back to our day-to-day routine which makes it quite boring. But anyway I shouldn't complain. All in all a good start back in to work.

At the beginning of September comes the first change for my 2yr old girl. Preschool! She will go five times a week from 8.30am to 12.15pm. So I will just work halfdays :) more time for my studies! Can't wait haha :D with all the wedding planning going on it will be nice having time during the day to study ;)

Three fulltime jobs

I am so sorry guys that I let you down a long time... But now I am back ;)

Since my last blog post nothing really happend. With my new car it is now possible for me to commute to work every day, which means I finally can sleep at home during the week :) but this brings me to my headline: three fulltime jobs! I am so busy that I dont't have any time for my hobbies, like scrapbooking or writing my blogs. I am a fulltime-nanny, fulltime-student and fulltime-girlfriend und unfortunately in that order... poor JT :(

My employer had a really tough time at work which meant for me more work, even on weekends. In average I have to leave home in the morning around 6.45/7.00am, am getting up with JT at 5am and my lovely parents are having breakfast with me over facetime :) Thanks again <3 every morning I am stucked in traffic for over an hour and as soon as I am at my employer's house I take care of the baby. I, basically, never know when I am off, but most of the times it is between 6.45pm and 8.15pm. Than I have to commute back home which is like a 25-45 min ride depending on traffic. Back home I get a delicious dinner made by my man, take a shower, talk about our days, watch TV, I have to study and than it is already time to say night night :D

So now you guys know why I didn't had much time and motivation to continue this blog but know I try to right more often again ;)

The first days of 2013...

... started with working. But at least it was a short first week! Kids are a miracle of nature. In that 11 days of vacation my little one changed so much! She looks more grown up and I guess she grew a few inches, too. The first time we saw each other was the night before I started working. This little girl was so confused to see me again :D but we were back in our daily routine real fast!

Back at home we took our christmas decoration off and now our place looks so empty :D we didn't do much on the weekend either just relaxing after that hard and long week ;) :D ah n sorting JT's mail :D

2. Advent

Oh yes my friends, the time goes by just like that. Since we already have the second advent :) This week not much happened except that I once again had a 24-hour virus caught with all Pi-Pa-Po. I was very sorry for my employers, as they had to cancel important meetings and also the scheduled date had to be postponed, but I was really sick. On Friday everything was fine again. Well and this weekend I was all alone at home, as JT has one extra job. My best friend on this side of the world, Monica, was so nice  pick me up in Bethesda and to entertain me over the weekend. Without a car it sucks! But we spent a lovely girls weekend with football, quite many series and all the stuff. And surprise: We were able to pick up JT today. Yes we had to pick him up, because my boyfriend had forgotten his key! Annoying, but whatever :D I had him back. Have yet tasty one evening together and then we went back to Bethesda. Oh and here is the winter landscape that I craft for the little one :) 

Background

Santa Claus

The first weeks in the U.S.

For almost 4 weeks, I'm back in the States. Autumn has now arrived and the first houses begin to decorate for Halloween. I'm already really in autumn mood and soon it's also my birthday :) So how were the first few weeks here in the States? Stressful :D but positively exhausting.

Working with the baby is fun to me and it is wonderful to see that she learns something new every day. My normal working day looks like this:

I start at 8.30am and then the little one I have breakfast. Then I change her diapers and we get ready to leave the house for her classes. Tuesdays we go to baby yoga, she has a Music Class Wednesdays and Thursdays/Fridays she goes to a Waldorf School playgroup. I take care of a pretty busy young lady :D After these activities, we usually go shortly to the playground. Then back home I cook lunch. In general the little lady eats a lot of vegetables, meat and fish - so very healthy :D Then she is taking her nap, which is usually around 2.5 hours. After the nap we play a little bit and then go again to a playground or we have playdates. By 6pm I prepare dinner for her and then I am off. A standard 10-hour day for little me. The first weeks I will work a lot of overtime because my employer's have so much stress at work. More money for me, but yeah, I just fall exhausted into bed. Despite all the work it's just mega fun working with the little one :)

After such an exhausting week, every person just ones a relaxing weekend. Yes, I hope that I sometimes have one :D So far, I had a lot to do on the weekends because I'm stuck in Bethesda during the week without a car. So all the to-do's need to be moved to the weekend! Friday night my boyfriends picks me up and on Sunday evenings he brings me back to Bethesda. The first weekend JT and I just drove around for us to look at apartments. Fortunately, we have finally found one two weeks ago :D The basement apartment of the house where he lives now *haha* Last weekend we finally moved downstairs into the apartment. But now I am living only on weekends in our apartment, because I'm still on car search :/ Most of my time on the weekends I spend now at car dealers or banks. Currently, even with no great success, but maybe this weekend will change it.

Regarding university, I couldn't start yet, because the rating company needs still to evaluate my bachelor's degree from Germany. Well, that means to wait now and then I suppose I can start in the spring semester.

How the rest of my week looks like, you guys can imagine. But what will this weekend be like? On Saturday I have to go to the driving license office in order to get my American driver's license. Then I have to open an account for the Federal Credit Union because my visa allows me to open one there. Then we have to clean JT's old room and I have to pick up the rest of my moving boxes. We are getting a futon sofa from is sister and then we wanted to go to IKEA to buy a nice dresser. Currently, most of my clothes are flying around on the ground. And then I wanted to buy a Halloween costume this weekend :D any suggestions? Last year I was Little Red Riding Hood :D

Autumn weather 10/17/2012