In anticipation and preparation for Henry’s birthday party tomorrow

6.40 – waking up
7.45 a – leaving the house for the nursery
8.20 – arriving at nursery and having a chat with the teacher about the day before
9.15 – arriving at work
… Working (a bit) , interviewing nannies(a lot) …
5.05 – leaving for nursery
6.00 – leaving nursery to drive home
7.00 – cooking dinner
8.15 – Nigel puts Henry to bed

That’s somewhat funny: ex-nanny in the living room hunting for jobs and me in the bedroom – for nannies!
If you only knew by how much I’ve increased the salary to get something more or less decent! Still no luck though

Kinda new nanny… None of us are 100% convinced but other candidates were way worse … Not the best qualifying criteria I suppose.

It’s carnival time today in German part of Switzerland. They call it Fasnacht – very odd Swiss interpretation of being merry and happy

We had a small earth quake yesterday night! Actually, I found it quite scary… It only lasted for may be 3-4 seconds and was only 4.2 strong and yet – I found it very scary… Like a small explosion somewhere very close to the house only without a sound, a bang.

There are three reasons I think this drawing is amazing but I am very open to suggestions of my motherly insanity!!! Please tell me if I am being “typical mother”!
So, the reasons are:
1. You actually can tell it’s a lion without me telling you what it is and
2. Henry told me its a lion while he was drawing it Rather me teasing it out of him so it “all makes sense”
3. The most important one the two last strokes were the horizontal lines to the left and right from the lion. So Henry first drew the animal and then he drew a horizon and put the lion on the ground instead of leaving him hanging in the air of a white page like most kids do. I was watching him draw and it really looked exactly how you would sketch the horizon in a quick sketch!