Will Dig Life

After a very tense time of will-he or won't-he make it, thank Covid, he made it. At 2am he was with us, at last - after a catalogue of fun adventures: having to take yet another test at the airport (to the tune of £85) even though he already had a PCR test done within the required time limit, and having to wait two hours for a result (when the plane was literally scheduled to leave - fortunately it was delayed);  having to prove to a sceptical border guard at Vienna airport that he was actually allowed to enter the country because he normally lives with me, an Austrian citizen (he produced marriage certificate, copy of my passport, and a utility bill to satisfy them!); finding the regular train from the airport into the city wasn't running due to Covid; and after boarding an alternative train, hearing an announcement that the half of the train he was on would not continue, so by the time he and the others on that half had alighted, the front half had already pulled away leaving...

Can't believe we're now in week 4! This week I don't see much of the kids because they're at a sports camp (not sleeping over, daytime only) which is doing absolute wonders for their German because they can't respond to other kids in English like they do to me! But for the first three weeks we've been together 24/7, which at times has been challenging: simple things like grocery shopping are much tougher with two small kids in tow. Who have limited patience! So this week, without them around, I get to do stuff like clean and tidy this place (way overdue!), go to Adoration and Mass on my own, amble around. It's good. I keenly miss my Mr. more each day, but God willing he's arriving on Saturday. Here are a few of our adventures... At the end of July, we celebrated daddy's birthday with cake: Of course we spent time at various swimming places... For a little while, the weather wasn't too nice so we visited museums: Adventures on public transport... ...