An end and a new beginning

This past week has been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. Thursday was my last day of work before going on maternity leave for the next 9 months or so.  It is so amazing, and I feel so privileged to have 6 weeks off before my due date and so many months afterwards to spend with our baby.  I hope I will never take it for granted, but it does feel a little strange as well.  I have spent so much time working the last 4½ years with colleagues and students that I really enjoy and appreciate, that it feels strange that  I won’t see them everyday.  Or just the fact that my brain doesn’t have to coordinate things about work and concerts, etc.  I feel so blessed to have a work place that  I love and will miss. So yeah the reason for the rollercoaster of emotions…(and well maybe just the pregnancy fact as well!)

But also this week we finally got the keys to our new house!

We went up to the house Wednesday to get the keys and check out the house for what colors we should paint everything.  Then later that day I went and bought some small trial buckets of paint so that we could go up to the house and make sure the colors were just what we were hoping for.  So that is what we did Thursday.  We had our first meal in our new home, and it was so fun to think…This is ours!  Then on Friday and Saturday we had our big painting days.  Luckily we had a lot of friends and family who were willing to help so we were actually able to get the whole house painted in a day and a half!  Everything looks great and now we can’t wait to get our things moved in and in place.

Our first meal at HOME

Inger and Ida painting the music room

My type of job!!

Ulla working on Baby Madsen's room
(white on top, green on bottom)

Hanne in the kitchen

Nikolaj swinging in our back yard

Benny, Peter & Jette in the entry/mudroom

Lukas and I baking cookies for the hard workers

Dinner at our new dining table!

Time for a break again!

Painting done...next job..put the cabinent together
(I think they wished there was more painting to do!)

While everyone was painting Saturday I took a walk with our nephews and found some interesting trails and a park with a playground near by.  It was fun to be on a little adventure and check out the area a little bit more.  I also met one of the neighbor ladies and she was very friendly and informative…she told me all of the neighbors names and ages!!!

So yes, we have been busy with lots of exciting things.  Luckily today, Sunday, we have been able to just sleep in, relax and go for a nice long walk in the beautiful spring weather. Next week we will pretty much be packing and buying the last things we need for the house before Saturday…MOVING DAY!