interview

Within the next 2 weeks we have to go to Regina.
There I will meet the lady that I will have the interview with.
We still have no idea how to get there yet.
But if everything works out were going by greyhaund bus.
And at the same time, it will be some sort of nice day out for us.
MaybeI can do some shopping!!!
But at the other end... I have no idea what to expect!
What if they tell me to go back where I came from?!
Yuk... no fun...I have to wash my brain now for thinking that!!!

Lets just hope they won't keep us waiting for an other year or so...I am tired of waiting, I wanna live!!!

dresser

Yesterday we bought this dresser in the newspaper for $20 can.
And it looks great!
I think I will paint it white, because I love our furniture to be light.
But we will see... haven't made up my mind yet!

Why Saskatchewan?

Some people ask me how we got from Holland to Swift current.
I always tell them with a plane.
But they mean, why we picked Swift current and why Saskatchewan.
And then I think, why did we pick Saskatchewan???
We had no idea what Saskatchewan would be like.
We didn't know anyone.
And to go somewhere were you have nothing, is kinda scary.

Stan is member of a wewbsite for Ghosttowns.
And he has been looking on the internet for ghost towns.
So he went on a realtor site and found Kelsey Adam, he asked him if they sell abandoned houses and if he knew of someone that did.
He said that they would sell, but that no realtor would do it cause there isn't money in it for them.
So Stan and Kelsey started talking about Swift current, and it seem a good place to start a new life.
Stan also started looking for a company that would hire him, and he found a great company.
Befor we left from Holland he had a job, and we had a place to live for 1 month.
Kelsey was selling his old house and we could stay there for 1 month untill we got something else.
We found something else, a college of Kelsey had a house for rent.
So here we are....from Ghost town searching to Swift current.
Life can be weird and also alot of fun.
Sometimes in life you feel trapped... like what we were in the Netherlands.
We didn't have a life there.
And when Stan got refused my world came crashing down.
I had to say goodbye to my family, and farewell to my grandmother, I will never see her again in this life.
But this is our life now, and we are going to make the best of it.

I can sleep...

Kids are really easy.
If they get tired, they fall down and sleep.
Amber went out like a light.

Swing

Hi everyone, we got a swing for the backyard.
Someone just gave it to us because the seat has a little rip at the bottom.
We don't care that it is ripped where we can't see it LOL
Emma loves it, she didn't want to go inside for lunch today, she wanted to sit on "her" swing.
We also put an add in the newspaper, we are asking for toys for the kids for in the backyard, like a sandbox and swingset or slide.
Emma loves being outside, Amber loves it too, but she kinda has a problem with standing up on the grass, she falls down after every step.
Next year in the spring time when everything starts to grow I will put some nice flower seeds in the ground and sunflowers and we will make a pretty garden just for the girls.
No tulips, because it seems that the deer love to eat them.

How the intereur looks so far

Well, my collection.... and that will never stop.
You can also see the beautiful glas globe I have, my brother gave it to me, there is real gold in it, a friend of his made it in England. This is our new side table, we got 2 so we have one on either end of the couch.
The door opening to the kitchen, the living room isn't big, but it is nice.
Soon I will finish the walls with clasic wallpaper, because the way it is now looks a bit cold.
And the couch, it is an old one for sure, but looks great and sits comfortable.
And this is what I love about the couch, the sides are with wood and wicker.
You don't have to buy everything new, because the old can be just as good...at least your keeping money in your pocket!

Basement

Here you can see Stan inspecting what is under our house, he is now at the back of the basement in the boiler room.
Behind that door is an other room.
This is the bedroom that is in the basement, it is not really that big, but it has a bed in there and alot of boxes and other things we just put there, and we still have room to walk around in.
This is part of the boiler room, you can see at the backend there is a crawling space.
This is the door in the kitchen to the basement. And this is what you see when you come from the stairs.

The basement is nice and dry now, I guess they fixed it and they had even kids sleeping in here.

No kids of mine will even sleep in a basement like this.

We will fix it up if we stay here long enough.

Someone told us that the landlady was thinking about selling it.

So who knows... maybe one day this will be ours.

The house

This is the view from the backyard, There is a nice little park and a playground for the kids. This is the back of the house, the 2 windows are going to be replaced soon, they are very old.

We also have a huge basement and in time we want to finish it more so we can have people over.

This is the front inclosed porche, the trees here are hanging on the ground, Stan already took care of that and now there nice and you can see the house much better.

This is the inside of the front porche.
This is our bedroom.

And this is our new wallunit.
The old one was too old, the new tv didn't fit in it.
And these are my old photo's.
I collect them.This is the kitchen, not too small.

I like this house, even though its just a renter.

Cleaning ladies

Emma and Amber love cleaning, I guess they are more like me then I thought.

I like keeping things nice and neat, and so do the girls.

Funny face

Emma can really make weird faces and then she doesn't looks like me LOL Emma came and set with me yesterday and asked me, "mam, what's for dinner?"

So I said I don't know yet we have to go to the store first.

So she said, "thats okay, I am not starving to death yet".

The kid's

Emma loves to sing.

She sure is our sweetheart.

Here is a picture of Amber, she is growing faster then ever befor.

She loves to smile and play.

Here we are

Hi everyone!

I am glad to see you have found our new Blog.

This way you can read also the things you are able to do.

You can reply on a message, so we know you have been here.

I am sure glad we can do this, it keeps everyone informed about what is happening.

So welcome to our blog... and talk to you soon again.

I am going to start this party by posting on a daily bases.