Day 7 - Childcare

Today was quite an interesting day. Since my parents are gone for some well earned vacation me, my sister and my two younger brothers discussed how we would take care of the two little ones, Robbie and Eric. Robbie is 3 years old, talks a lot, is very interested in everything, but has veeery stubborn. Eric is a real Mummy-boy, that's all I can say. He doesn't know me well enough and so he doesn't trust me :( He is just 1.5 years old and so he of course didn't understand that Mama is coming back.
Well, today in the afternoon and evening I was responsible for cooking and for taking care of the two little boys. With Robbie everything went well so far. We played some soccer together, extinguished some "Brennnesseln" (translated stinging nettle. It is a plant that causes short strong pain when touched, since it has poisenous stings. It's quite harmless if you ignor the pain) after Robbie stumbled and fell into them. While we were cutting the "Brennesseln", we found a small wasp's nest. The wasps were not to happy about our presence and so I had to take care of them with a torch and some bad perfume. (Makes a nice flamethrower due to the alcohol in it)
Eric was another story. It was almost enough that I would just look at him and he cried. (He cried a lot today) The only one he trusted in his Mummy deprived state was my brother Gabriel and he was so kind to take care of him for most of the day.
That was almost it.
Here's a picture of the house, so you can imagine how it looks like:


For about 10 minutes we had also some quite heavy rain today. It poured down pretty bad, but it was over as sudden as it began:



By the way: Today was Friday and with that the 7th full day that I experienced here in Austria after I left my home for two years: Dallas, Texas. There would be a lot more to write about the whole change and I intend to do so, it just might not be in daily intervals anymore. If you have any questions or you would just like to say hi, please feel free to do so in the comments or just write me an Email.