Since a few weeks now Christian works as the accountant for a major building project at our church. He got used to it quite quickly and enjoys the challenge. From September on I will be back working too. I’m going to teach baby signing classes. For the last months Aimee and I have been going to such classes and after the summer I will leading the same – this time without Aimee. I’m looking forward to it and will have to learn a lot of songs and signs over the summer.
Posted: Juli 8th, 2010 under annika, christian, family.
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Nearly 2 months ago Annika’s cousin Kristin arrived in York. She is 16 and does a term at a local secundary school and dives into a german-english experience abroad. And for us it means we have a babysitter in the house – quite useful. Quite interesting to have a baby and a teenager at the same time. One of them is tired early at night, the other one is tired early in the morning. But it works really well and we hopefully find some nice things to do over halfterm.


Posted: Mai 28th, 2010 under family, york.
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Posted: April 17th, 2010 under Allgemein, family.
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For Aimee’s dedication we had all her 4 grandparents with us. We had a good time together even when unfortunateyl we all had to fight a cold. That made Aimee very clingy and it took her while to get used to her grandparents. But the cold is gone and the spring has arrived. We are now waiting for our first spring flowers to blossom. We planted some last autum.

Posted: März 20th, 2010 under Allgemein, family.
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Posted: Februar 23rd, 2010 under just thought.
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We are uncle, aunt and cousin now: Jakob Lewin is born. Congratulations to Daniela and Karsten.

Posted: Januar 27th, 2010 under Allgemein.
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Posted: Januar 27th, 2010 under Allgemein.
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24/12
Christmas Eve in York means for the Nowratys to play with Aimee, set up the Christmas tree, play with Aimee, feed Aimee, cook Christmas dinner (ham in cherry coke), looking at the snow, singing Christmas carols, being on skype with the familiy in Germany, unwrapping presents with the familiy watching over the internet, unwrapping more presents and then going to bed early. It was great.
25/12
We went to church to a lovely service where all kids brought their most favourite present, the adults did a nativity scene, lots of carols and a few mince pies. After that we had a propper English Christmas lunch with everything from turkey to brussles sprouts. Anna and Richard invited us over and it was lovely.
26/12
Boxing day was with a few families from church und a lot of left overs from Christmas. It was really a relaxed gathering and a wonderful finish of a very special Christmas.
Posted: Dezember 30th, 2009 under Allgemein.
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Posted: Oktober 7th, 2009 under family, york.
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Posted: September 17th, 2009 under Allgemein, just thought.
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Posted: September 8th, 2009 under family.
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Christian was off today so we made a daytrip with the whole family. We made the best out off the good weather and went to Knaresborough. It was quite an adventure because we had to lift Aimee a lot of stairs up and down (she lay comfortly in her push chair). She really enjoyed it – it was ok for us. We went to see Mother Shipton’s cave. It’s a cave and a petrifying well. If you put a teddy bear into the water it will be petrified within three month. If you do like teddy bears it looks a bit cruel to be fair. At the museum you could even see a petrified hut of John Wayne.


Posted: August 16th, 2009 under Allgemein, family.
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We got the call yesterday morning: we’re staying for another year in our house. Our landlord is willing to renew our contract and he does not even increase the rent. Now we can start thinking again about putting some curtains up in the livingroon, maybe.
Posted: August 6th, 2009 under Allgemein, york.
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