Getting some walking practice in

Today I thought it would be great that for Mother’s Day we eat together as a family. Michael took care of the boys in the morning as usual, and I slept in. Then whenever he put them down for a nap, he took one as well. I got up before the boys got up and started to make lunch. My timing was a little off, so our sandwiches were cold. But it was still good. The boys ate macaroni and we ate mozzarella sandwiches. It was really nice to eat all together. We never do that. Mainly because it’s so hard to make their dinner and our dinner in time before they got to bed. There is also so much other crap that needs to happen before they go to bed that there’s just not enough time.

After lunch, we all went out together to the Munich Stadtmuseum. The cool thing is that on Sundays it’s FREEE!!!! That made it even better because then if the boys fuss we can leave and not feel like we threw money into the fire. We went to the top floor to the musik museum. OK, we totally didn’t understand this one. They had all these ancient instruments laying about, seemingly for anyone to come up and play with it. I mean, why do they leave it out if it’s not to be played? Very confusing. We didn’t touch any or anything. In fact, it was the quietest floor in the whole building. Go figure! On our way down the elevator, we spied on this guy who was watering his plants without pants. He probably had shorts on and his shirt was long enough that it covered it, but it was just funnier thinking he didn’t have pants on and stepped out onto his balcony for all the people in the museum to see (glass walls doesn’t hide a darn thing). You had to be there I guess.

The boys actually did very well and I loved the photography exhibit they had. The photos were inspiring and amazing. After awhile, we let the boys walk around, but they didn’t want their hands held, so Rowan started crawling around. When he started making lots of noise, we went outside and I let him run around. Michael took Elijah to some Nazi display and we met outside. They had fun playing in the courtyard. Then Michael took them home and I was let loose to explore the yarn shops. I have an idea to create a web page that lists all the yarn shops here and include pictures and the brands of yarn that they carry. That would be really useful. It was fun finding places and taking pictures though the windows. Some places were not yarn stores (got the name from the yellow pages), so it was like a treasure hunt. So excited when I find a new store and severely disappointed when I got sent to a dead end.

In the evening, I uploaded the pictures and created a separate blog with all the information. I’ll have to go back and take better pictures. Blogger is kind of limited with what I can do. I want to add ratings and have a different layout. I’m exploring other options…

Happy Mother’s Day to all!