Enriching my child

After yesterday, I'm a little burned out on making sure my child is well-rounded. I went with her class on a field trip to the botanic gardens and did okay for about the first two hours. It was that last hour that kind of did me in--not to mention the high pollen count. We did have one incident with a kid brushing up against brennessel. A plant here in Germany that when you touch it it makes you break out into stinging hives wherever it comes in contact with your skin. And it was a GERMAN kid who got into it, so at least he knew what it was and seemed to take it in stride. We had to do some hasty first aid, but he was a trouper. One of the other German kids in my little group asked if she could speak German to me and I told her she could, but I couldn't promise to understand everything.

Then we had our final swimming lesson after school. It would have been the final lesson whether or not we were moving, but it's yet another thing that is a "last time" for Maddie, and it made her sad. I was so giddy at the prospect of not having to make this trek (that ends up being a three-hour endeavor) twice a week that I fear I didn't offer a sufficient amount of comfort.

The selling of our stuff continues to be time consuming. Oh, for a Salvation Army truck to come and haul it away and give us a nice receipt for our taxes. We do actually have a Salvation Army here, but they don't do the pick up thing. I do, however, have most of the stuff we don't want to take with us spoken for.

Tonight I am going with girlfriends to see Sex in the City in ENGLISH at the movies. Very excited. Even before she existed on the pages of books and on the small screen, Carrie Bradshaw was who I wanted to be when I grew up.