"A Song for Ireland"

My intention had been to go to bed early again tonight, because I still feel kind of crappy from my cold, but that obviously didn't happen. We just got done watching the Eurovision Song Contest. The whole time I just kept thinking about the Father Ted episode where they compete in the contest. It's probably my favorite episode. Anyway, Germany totally kicked ass tonight in the competition. They hadn't won since 1982, and usually finish in a very low position (if not last), but tonight the song Satellite by Lena won with 76 more points than the song from Turkey, which came in second. I'm not gonna lie, it was kind of fun and exciting to watch the show, even though the competition has always been a joke to me. What do you expect when the only thing you know of the contest is what you saw on Father Ted?

Today in general was a pretty good day. Not a whole lot really happened until this afternoon. Just breakfast, relaxing, painfully unsuccessful attempts to get the kids to take a nap, and I took a walk to get out of the house for a little bit. On my way home from my walk I saw Barbra outside with the boys. Jörg wasn't there because he was playing in a tennis tournament, but I stopped by to say hi. I hadn't seen them in about 3 weeks, and David was so excited to see me. He had such a precious little smile on his face when I said hello to him. They came over to the house at around 4 for coffee and then stayed for the barbecue. I spent a lot of time playing on the new playground with David. He just loved to sit on my lap on the swing, and I even got him to sit on the swing by himself while I pushed him. He's so precious!

Yesterday was a pretty good day, too. Although I really didn't want to have to drive do Düsseldorf it ended up not being so bad. And I got there just as the family was coming out of the terminal, so I didn't have to park or anything. The kids were so excited to see me. They both had the biggest smiles on their faces. They really missed me after I left Djerba. I got a big hug and I kiss from everybody, too, which was nice. Then we just spent the rest of the day hanging out and relaxing at home. I think they were all a little bit glad to be home, although we all definitely miss Djerba.

I guess the only thing that hasn't been so pleasant over the past couple of days has been Gustav's behavior. He was such a little shithead today. There were at least 3 times where Esther had to drag him up the stairs and close him in his room because he had taken whatever it was that he was doing at the time too far. And in the process he was screaming and throwing a major fit. Then he kept saying schieße over and over again. Scheiße Mama, scheiße this, scheiße that. He was really pushing his limits today, for a good part of the day. What a turd. In the end he went to bed with relatively no fuss, so that was nice. Hopefully tomorrow he'll calm down a little bit and we won't have to relive the terror he inflicted upon everyone today.