Here We Go Again

It's almost been a year since we moved to Munich and what better way to celebrate than to move again. Thanks to Facebook, we found a place we didn't think we'd be able to get. It's still city center and we didn't have to deal with the competitiveness of the Munich rental market besides just being quick on the draw seeing the FB posting.We were already accepting defeat of it not working out living in our current 2 bedroom apartment with 3 kids and moving to the Munich suburbs. We're super excited to have found a bigger place that is still wonderfully city center and saves about 15 minutes from Nate's commute to work via car or train (that annoying 15 minutes where you sit in traffic for a distance of only 3 km's). No more work meetings in the bathroom for Nate and the twins won't have to share a room with their big sister. We really lucked out so we'll suck it up with all the "fun" moving brings and get 'er done.  At the end of March, we'll be moving from Sendlinger Tor to Friedensengel in tourist attraction language.  Friedensengel translates to the Angel of Peace. It's not our view from our window but I'll see it every time I step outside our front door....hopefully sending some peace and quiet to our home from time to time. :)

The other thing that has been eating up a lot of time lately is Lily's preschool registration. Kids go to all day preschool (called Kindergarten here) starting already at 3 and it's crazy hard to find a spot because either there aren't enough schools or Munich ladies are incredibly fertile. When my in-laws were here, I spent any time I could racing around registering Lily at the preschools near our new home. To give you an idea how hard it is - one of the state schools had 40 vacant spots and 200 applicants. And only very few (usually the private or bilingual ones) let you register online; the preferred method is in person which I understand even if it is a pain right now. So, Lily is registered at 12 preschools to start in September so we'll see if any of them accept her. The large majority are German state preschools so we're pretty much throwing her into the deep end with German immersion at that point. If it works out, Lily will be going to school already at 3 years old every day from probably 830 to 1 or 2pm in the afternoon.

I'll end with a video Nate took today of Paul and Elise giving a few smiles.