Wonderful Copenhagen

Or, should I say wonderful Verup! The little town just outside the bigger town Dianalund, where I am staying with Bjarne and Lisbet.
It is so peaceful and quiet here and I really feel as if I am on a retreat. (Not that I have ever been on a retreat before!)

So, the departure was not as stressful as I thought it would be. Dawn came to fetch Alexander so he was happy to wave goodbye to me and left with her before we left the house. He had been a bit clingy that day, almost as if he could sense that I was going somewhere. So I was a bit worried he would cry when I said bye but I think I took it far worse than he did, and yet I was totally in control and felt as if I was just saying bye for the night. Thomas came with to the airport. There is so much construction going on, so unfortunately we couldn't see any of the aircraft. We said goodbye and Thomas and Craig went over to domestic side to see if they could see our flight take off, but Craig told me later on the phone that it was just as bad there and the spur was almost nonexistant, but they did manage to see the Emirates flight take off which took off about an hour before ours, so he just told Thomas that Mormor and I were on that flight. Our flight took off 1/2 an hour later than scheduled anyway.

The flight actually went quite well considering mor couldn't smoke. She drank quite a bit of wine, but she seemed ok. We had 6 hours in Heathrow which dragged on a bit, but before we knew it, we had landed in Copenhagen. Tine and Joan came through to airside to meet us (as they both work in the airport) Outside, Bjarne, Mille, Hans Jørn and even Michael had taken the train from Odense to surprise Mor, and of course Sisse, were all there to meet us. We dispersed and went our own ways. It is over an hour drive from the airport to the farm. It was so good to see everyone again. Bjarne and Lisbet look the same and haven't changed much.
The life here on the farm is very different to city life, but so much more relaxed and the pace is much slower. People are more friendly and not in such a rush as the Copenhageners are. What a lovely life to have as they are still young and fit enough to enjoy it and not have the worries of getting up early and cathing busses and trains to get to work. I think Lisbet is so grateful that she didn't have to work another 5 years at SAS. Bjarne still does a bit of advertising work here and there and writes a few articles for the local newspaper.

I need to go and pack now already as mor, Tine, Hans Jørn, Mille and Peter are coming at 17h00 for dinner. Lisbet is running around cleaning and preparing (some things don't change) and I feel a bit bad that I am sitting here here on the computer. Bjarne has gone off on his quad bike to paint the other gate. They are all sleeping over here tonight and then I got back with them and then it's off to the wedding for the week end. Then on Sunday I will stay over at Julle's and the probably at Tine and HJ on Monday night and then we leave already on Tuesday. The time has just gone so fast! but then again I knew it would.

Craig and the kids are coping well. I have spoken to Craig a few times. I haven't "spoken" to Alexander but I have spoken briefly to Thomas. I asked him if he was missing me and he replied "sort of" Well, it would have been far worse if he had started crying or something. So, they seem to be happy and thriving. I am very lucky that Zac and Dawn are so capable and love having them.

So, that's it for now, but I'll update on the whole trip, probably only when I get back.

1 week to go!

So, now it's down to 1 week till we go to Denmark. My feelings are still the same though I'm getting more heart jitters now. I can't wait to see everyone though, and I'm really working fast to try make sure all my work is up to date so that I don't need to hand to much over.

I still have 1 more week end to sort things out. Not quite sure what I still need to sort. Maybe I should start making lists like mormor used to do and pack a week before! I am hoping to get Wed 10th Sep off, as I have a hair appointment on the morning of the 11th and a meeting with Thomas's teacher the afternoon of the 10th, so I'm hoping I don't need to go back to work after that.

It would be now that Alexander decides to get so darn cute. I'm almost too scared to miss out a day of his life because he changes daily. He is a little monkey and imitates everything we do. He can't quite speak the words, but his tone and voice are exactly like ours. He also has quite a temper on him and makes it quite clear when he doesn't like something. More often than not, it's one of us taking something away from him that could be potentially dangerous. He just shouts NO, NO, and then tries to swipe at us with whichever object he is holding. Thomas thinks it's very funny but I'm trying to tell him not to laugh as Alexander will thinks it's cool and turn it into a game.
His vocab is coming on. He still says the arb words like baba, whenever he sees one. He calls Dada dada, in the mornings, so cute.He says Kitty and makes a meeoouw sound. He can point to a pictures of a cow, sheep, pig, horse and duck when asked. He points to his nose, mouth, teeth, ears, eyes, head, hair when asked and then points to ours. When he wants to have a bite of his food, he points to it and says "num" It is truly amazing how babies learn to communicate. Even though he only says a few words, he can make it very clear what he needs and wants. He gets quite upset in the morning when we leave the house, so I try to make our leaving as undramatic as possible. I just hope he doesn't cry when I leave the house for the airport, coz that will just destroy me.
Thomas will come with to the airport with Craig and they will wait until the plane takes off. Somehow I think it's good for Thomas to actually see me leave in a plane so he can get an idea of how far away I'm going, and that I can't just come home in 5 minutes. Ag, I doubt the kids will even miss me, I'm sure they will have a splendid time with Gogo and Papa Joe. Dawn will be taking Thomas to school in the morning after dropping Alexander off here with Caroline. He will sleep over at Dawn, so she will fetch Alexander in the evenings and leave Thomas with Craig. I hope it won't be too much disruption for the kids, but at least Alexander's day time routine won't change and he has stayed with Dawn and Zac so many times, he hopefully won't feel lonely or out of place.

So, maybe the next time I blog will be when I come back from Denmark, unless I can log on while I'm there, but I have so little time with my family I can't see myself wasting any time being online.

Chow till then!