Recovering winter wipe out
It has been awhile since we wrote. The day after we last wrote Saniya became deathly ill. Then, all three of us followed her to deaths door about two days later. We are all still not totally normal and it has been 10 days. It was a high fever and cold drama. The high fever is the worst with kids because it gets so high and really is scary. Anyways, we are hoping that nightmare is gone for good and we are hoping to get back to normal stuff soon. So, hopefully in the next week we will get some pictures up.
We are also planning lots of fun travel for the spring and summer. Should be fun. I am off to Ireland with my wonderful friend, Heather, at the end of March. Early June, Rob's mom is coming to visit and she will watch Rowan and Saniya for four days while Rob and I go to St. Petersburg, Russia, alone. We are off for two weeks in July to see the fabulous Eleanor, Brain, Tess and the new baby in some Mediterranean paradise, most likely Italy. In August, we are off to the Norwegian fjords with my Mom. It feels pretty overwhelming, but will be great and why we are here so yeah!
So, we are in the planning stages of all of that. What a load. The one thing that is interesting is that there is so much time off here and really everyone uses it. We sat down to count out the days Rob has used and what he has left and to our amazement we have more time off after all of those trips. I was saying to Rob that in the U.S. a big perk is to have lots of vacation time, but the norm is really to cash it out as an extra financial bonus. Here it is not standard to cash it out. I don't even know if you can. I know at Rob's work you can't. But, really everyone uses their time off and have a life. So great. Rob gets 6 weeks paid vacation per year and that is not including sick time, which we are not even sure how much that is. I know the six weeks off is standard here for most companies.
Anyways, pictures coming and hope everyone is healthy and not sick at all.
Also, we had a light dusting of snow last week. That is the first snow we have had here since October. I heard it snowed in Eugene, that is so exciting. Here, it is cold and windy, but sunny and dry everyday. Also, it is not getting dark until 4:00 pm now. What a long day! But, better than 3:00 like in December.
Yasmiene
We are also planning lots of fun travel for the spring and summer. Should be fun. I am off to Ireland with my wonderful friend, Heather, at the end of March. Early June, Rob's mom is coming to visit and she will watch Rowan and Saniya for four days while Rob and I go to St. Petersburg, Russia, alone. We are off for two weeks in July to see the fabulous Eleanor, Brain, Tess and the new baby in some Mediterranean paradise, most likely Italy. In August, we are off to the Norwegian fjords with my Mom. It feels pretty overwhelming, but will be great and why we are here so yeah!
So, we are in the planning stages of all of that. What a load. The one thing that is interesting is that there is so much time off here and really everyone uses it. We sat down to count out the days Rob has used and what he has left and to our amazement we have more time off after all of those trips. I was saying to Rob that in the U.S. a big perk is to have lots of vacation time, but the norm is really to cash it out as an extra financial bonus. Here it is not standard to cash it out. I don't even know if you can. I know at Rob's work you can't. But, really everyone uses their time off and have a life. So great. Rob gets 6 weeks paid vacation per year and that is not including sick time, which we are not even sure how much that is. I know the six weeks off is standard here for most companies.
Anyways, pictures coming and hope everyone is healthy and not sick at all.
Also, we had a light dusting of snow last week. That is the first snow we have had here since October. I heard it snowed in Eugene, that is so exciting. Here, it is cold and windy, but sunny and dry everyday. Also, it is not getting dark until 4:00 pm now. What a long day! But, better than 3:00 like in December.
Yasmiene
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