The nicest thing of being here is having such an exciting every day life, hanging around the house. Pretty funny, because doing laundry and dishes and having 3-hour outings to the local park – in short: being a home-’mummy’ is not really supposed to be exciting. If you are not doing this job yourself, you simply got no idea what life is like here for me.

That brings me to the hardest part of being here. None of you really knows what the kids are like. Or why Jane is like my best sister-caretaker-hostmama-friend in one, on a shared first position for any of these individual roles with my own Dutch friends and family. Or, why Toby is the funnest and funniest Dad in the world (likewise, shared first position with my own Pappa Theo, who is my best father without any serious competition). And then I am not even talking about what it is like to live in Melbourne, in beautiful Australia, yet.

None of you knows, but one. Because about seven weeks ago my dearest friend Tessa came to visit me. Not just for a weeks or so, but for a full month. I feel like I am the luckiest to have a friend like that. Who has overcome her own fears and has been willing to change her own perspective on the world and in particular our own lifes. She has shown incredible strength and she has been so brave. I feel proud at her, in a way I cannot describe.

Now, while I am finding my way back in family life in Melbourne, still processing an amazinf few weeks with Tessa, I am getting ready for the next big thing, when my Mom and sister are coming this Melbourne spring!! It is an other four months still. But I am thinking it over, making travel- and outing plans. All in order to make our time just as special as the time I shared with Tessa, although probably incomparable.

Okay, where is she getting at? Well, most important for me about having these dear people over and keeping this weblog is to show and tell about my every day life here. That is why I have decided to write about this morning today. An exciting morning, but nothing more or less than what we would do on any other weekday.

Here is the first episode. Hopefully I can finish this trilogy soon, and you get to keep up with it as well.