A post on this blog is long overdue. So much has happened over the last four months I don't even know where to begin.
We ended the year of 2012 on a sad note. Our beloved dog Pax developed cancer and a short 6 weeks after we found out we had to say goodbye to him. We managed to get a new puppy before he was put down but is it still not the same.
In the end of January my husband was let go from his job - a turbulent month followed but luckily he was able to find a new job very quickly.
Around the same time we was called to a meeting at school. They wanted to hold back Alexander a year because they were worried about his academic skills. We refused but it means that we need to focus a great deal on him.
It was with a sad heart that we then decided that we had to put our kids first and not have exchange students for a while.
Then life threw us another little or rather big twist. In the middle of march I thought Emmeline had given me the flue. But a pregnancy test showed a different answer to my stomach problems. I am pregnant!! We still have trouble believing it but hopefully come November the household will say Hello to the world to a little baby.
We felt bad for our exchange student because we knew that the following two months I would be very sick and mostly confined to my bed and we simply wouldn't have the time to give her the exchange year we think she deserves. We had also had a period where communication wasn't going so well between us - we didn't see her much and we felt we lived to separate lives. So we gave her a choice. We said that we would love for her to stay but if she wanted to switch family to a family that have more time for her we would understand completely. We felt it was important that she made the choice herself.
I had to make a similar choice as an exchange student. My host mother was a teacher at school and she was a tough teacher. To me she was a great friend that I loved spending time with but to others she seemed very harsh and not a very warm person. One of my great friends asked if I wanted to come stay with her and her family instead. I declined because I was perfectly content where I was. But it did make me think about my situation and looking back it meant a great deal to have made that decision my self. I chose to stay so I was responsible for my own situation - that is character building!
She also chose to stay and she is so excited about the baby that she wants to come visit next summer to see the baby. She has also been great at helping out more around the house and communication has improved vastly since.
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