A Master’s Haircut

Today, being Monday, has been a day of chores like shopping, making arrangements for the week, lists oh and yes a little shopping.  Have two new yoga/gym trousers and two T-Shirts as well as some wooley socks with the non slip stuff on the bottom for the boys.  Normally Tante Ingrid sends me those at the start of winter, but this year I am here to buy our own!

Jana and Birgit came over for lunch and we had Spaghetti Bolognese.  Ben was very excited to have “some real food” (his words), as I have been warming up lots of yummy sausages and German meats and breads without much ‘actual’ cooking like I would at home.  Different kitchen, not the right gear…you know lots of reasons 🙂

After that Birgit kindly offered to cut the boys hair at her place, for those who don’t know, she is in fact a Friseurmeisterin (that is a master hairdresser) and I must say the boys have never looked so suave.  Daddy usually does a very good job, but watching the pro at work was impressive with some technics thrown in, that I might have to find out about so I can pass them on to Daddy for future use!

We took photos of Ben ‘during the act’ with Birgit’s iPad and I emailed them to myself on my iPad, but while I have them on email now, I don’t know how to put them onto my general iPad system so I can share them on the blog…any ideas anyone??

I took a photo of Nick when we were home again and here it is…

Nick after his first professional hair cut!

He then started messing around and looked like this.

Nick imitating a funny face Ben made during the cutting process.

Tessa had an invitation from one of Jana’s friends at school to join her at gymnastics.  This girl Teresa has been doing gymnastics at quite a high level for some time and as Tessa had asked me before leaving Germany if she could start gymnastics next term, I thought it would be a good opportunity to ‘check it out’.  She went from 17:00 till 19:00 tonight and really enjoyed it.  I think Tessa is missing all the sports she would be doing at home and while she is mentally tired, her body isn’t being employed quite enough.  I think she would love to go back on Fridays and the remaining Mondays.  I hope that will work out for her.

So,  tomorrow I will be a parent helper for Nick and Ben’s class going for a school trip to the ‘Fledermaushaus’ the bat house…watch this space…!

Tanja