Making it Feel Like Home

Here is a picture of the house, the little mark on the column is just where I erased the house number.

This morning the midwife came to our house. It was strange to see a medical professional in our home. She even drew my blood while sitting on my bed. It was mostly going through medical background and going over my health plan. I will meet with a “consultant” who is a specialist next week sometime and we will do some more blood tests there. A consultant is basically someone who specialized but did not get an M.D. prior to specializing as we do at home in the States. I will also need to get a General Practitioner, a GP, as they are the ones who received an M.D. and who coordinate your care. For instance: if you had a bladder infection and you went to your midwife, she would diagnose you then send you to your GP to get a prescription. Communicating between all of these parties and relaying the information they give you is your responsibility.

The rest of the day we spent unpacking. Trey was literally losing his mind to unpack. He spent the summer packing our belongings followed by a series of loading, unloading, packing for our road trip, unpacking, living out of suitcases at my Mom’s house, unpacking for the garage sale, packing the storage items into my closet at my Mom’s house and finally packing for London. I have never seen the man have a desire to be organized especially when I really didn’t care. I mean come on, we’re in London! We can live out of a suitcase until you start school! However, today the students went to use their London passes today so we pretty much had the house to ourselves. We didn’t leave. We ate here, rested and are officially unpacked. Every belonging has at least a temporary home and we no longer have suitcases or boxes in our room. I have a happy husband. The fun thing is, we still had conversations and interactions with 9 people as they came in and out of the house from their day’s adventures. I have been surprised at how much I am enjoying all the opportunity for social interaction. Tomorrow we go to the markets! Who wants a scarf?

Bonus Bit: Today I turned on the T.V. for the first time this morning to watch the news. We get 6 channels and only 2 of them seemed normal. One was some REALLY strange game show with people riding these funky exercise bikes and having to jump off to answer questions, the next was the same game show in German, one was a kid’s show (Thomas the Train) and the other two were like Good Morning America. That is just a summation of the 20 minutes while I was getting dressed but I don't have a good feeling…