Look at this little red-headed cutie who’s sitting up all on her own now!
My niece Abigail is 7 months old now, and I got to Skype with her last week. (Well…mostly my sister-in-law, because Abby doesn’t say much yet.)
Gosh, they grow so fast! I can’t wait to see her in July when they come for the wedding!
I’m back!
Sorry for the silence this week. I have really missed writing here on my blog and am glad to be back! This week there was just too much going on to update. Things were busy with work and then traveling for the funeral. I’m so glad I was able to be with the family, and though the circumstances were not really happy ones, it was nice to see everyone again. And as Tobias said, sometimes the more solemn celebrations knit family and friends closer together in a way that happier celebrations don’t necessarily do.
Well, it’s finally the weekend and things are a little bit back to normal. And we got some happy news from good friends of ours, Matthias and Ariane – their baby Émile was born on Leap Day! I can’t wait to meet him this weekend! Congratulations on your beautiful baby boy!
We got a letter from the court that our documents had arrived and I had to go pay the 50€ fee so that they could send it back to the Standesamt. They should receive it in about a week and then we can finally go in and set a date for the courthouse part of our wedding.
I had to go to two very big, impressive courthouse buildings at Sievekingplatz. This one to pay the fee:
And to this second one to show the receipt so they could go ahead and send the documents to the Standesamt:
We got news on Thursday evening that Tobi’s Oma had died. It’s sad news, although the family is really comforted in the fact that she died peacefully in her sleep, at the ripe old age of 100. It’s pretty amazing that she made it that long and was really quite fit all the way up until the end.
She saw a lot of things in her life – lived through both world wars, worked hard to provide for her children, and was a really wonderful grandmother.
This picture was from her 100th birthday celebration last August. She sure didn’t look that old in this picture, right!?
I’m sad that she’s gone. Tobias and I would have so loved for her to be around for our wedding. Or for our first child, who if it is a girl, we want to name after her. (We so wish we could have told our plans for that before she died. She would have been so honored and glad about that.) She was really such an incredible woman and I liked her a lot. I’m glad that I got the chance to meet her several times.
Rest in peace, Oma. You’ll be greatly missed.
Tobias and I are going to Fellbach, her hometown (near Stuttgart), to the funeral on Wednesday. It’s always good to be with family at times like this.
It’s hard to know what to say, really. Just that life is so precious, and it’s sad when it’s over.
