Willkommen in der Heimat!

Welcome Home! To Deutschland, that is.

Mostly I spent today coming to terms with the fact that I no loner live in the US. And all that comes along with that thought... 

--I'll miss almost all of Obama's presidency

--I have to figure out how to translate km-miles, english-metric, dollars-Euros (math not being my strong point, this is daunting)

-- I don't know this language, am not even close to understanding road signs, street signs, and people. 

I'm feeling a little trepidation about this whole thing at this point. The good news is that Ric doesn't actually have to start work until another 10 days or so, so he can hold my hand through the first adjustment to school, post, town, getting a drivers license, looking at real estate, etc. (whew!)

Travel went great- kids slept most of both flights - or Ethan had his head in a book. So no crying, fighting, whining, or jumping around. It was great!

The boys are registered for school but I haven't told them that first thing tomorrow they have to get an additional required vaccination. That's not going to go over well. There's no space in the preschool so Evelyn will be home with me for the most part. She's very excited about the thought of being homeschooled. Now the pressure's on... I actually have to teach her stuff while muddling along myself. 

Anyway, all's good, kids are happy to be here. I'm nervous, but I also haven't really been able to look around in the daylight... so hopefully I'll like what I see when we get out tomorrow. 

Hotel is not great, but adequate. Two bedrooms, adjoining bath and kitchen down the hall, not hardly at all equipped. Dinner will have to be very creative and VERY SIMPLE. I guess I can handle that for a while. 

All in all, at least we're all together and we can get this party started!