Hosting The Grand Family Reunion -

- starts with cooking insanity. It's good NOT to be the only kid in your family when expecting your family to join for dinner...

And to have an awesome son of your own who can stand on a chair beside you, take out peeled vegetables out of bowl and put them on your cutting board. Does save a lot of effort :)

And a Sis who, apart from helping with cooking, also helps with cleaning and brings upstairs part by part, a Queen-size bed.

And I do have a new work space in the house, with a bit more natural light and (it is important) behind closed doors. Bunch of drawers in my desk finally provide some space for proper arranging study books, pens and highlighters, language study books and CDs; so I do have a place to keep my hand lotion and my agenda close at hand too :) 

Note to self: buy a Yellow agenda for year 2016!

A major thing that hasn't been completed yet is the roof work. While the weather is obviously not cooperating, the fact that the roof team shows up on Monday morning, right after the snowfall, on Tuesday morning the actual roof materials get delivered and placed on the rooftop, and on Wednesday the solar panels team pays up a visit not being exactly sure why they were called in by their manager and leave without take off any of the solar panels - make my eyebrows jump up beyond my will. An exciting quest of placing 4 adults somewhere  for a whole day is coming.

Meanwhile my own belongings keep breaking, tearing and disappearing, and above all - fully used up, and this is becoming more and more intriguing.