Knorr Family Adventures

This was my Thursday morning.  All 3 boys were home, Chris was in Boston.  See if you can guess what's going on based on the pictures below.  About 3 hours later I was right there next to the boys :( I am really thankful to have a tailor within 3 minutes of my house. Love it -  I drop off 3 pairs of Chris' ripped jeans, pay 10 Euros and magically 2 days later they are fixed.  Between Chris and I, we can do a lot of fixing ourselves, but jeans are just too much work to do. To offset the cheap price of fixing clothing, I just paid 60 Euros to have 2 comforters cleaned.  They do not fit into our washing machine and I really want them cleaned after the week I've had so far.   

TWO YEARS in Germany!      It feels like a long time but also feels like not enough.   The expression “time flies” is so very true. We originally came here for 2 years with the hope of staying 2 and a half since we didn’t want to move mid-school year again.   At this point we are hoping to stay at least until Andrei finishes 4 th grade which is the end of Grundschule which will make it 4 years since he nearly started first grade here.   Other than that we have no long term plans :) Since Anton was only 2 when we left, he has no memory of our home or his school and his friends. It’s weird to think about it that way. Ilya and Andrei both remember things but it’s actually really funny.   For example, they miss Lucky Charms, Goldfish and corn dogs.   Chris brings Lucky Charms and Goldfish on VERY regular basis; corn dogs, however, are a little trickier.   A little bit ago we tried to make them at home and while they were ok, they were not the same as the frozen ones I used to

It seems it was yesterday that I was writing about the first day of school, but the kids just went back to school after their fall break. Andrei came home at 11AM on the last day before vacation after 2 of his classes got cancelled in order to start vacation early.   I wasn’t exactly ready since in theory he was supposed to have normal day today until 12:20. Surprise! LOL Both boys had Elternabends (parent meetings) and I learned that Andrei will have sex education before his class trip in June.   When I asked his teacher what exactly it entails, she did not understand my question even though I tried several different times in several different ways – she kept saying “normal stuff.”   I guess I will figure it out later.   Other than that, Andrei is doing sufficiently good.   He’s had several tests – 2 in German and 1in math.   He is still not getting grades in German but what I found to be interesting is that the kids are learning to use dictionary, as in a book that contain