Renée came home at 1 a.m. today. They got stuck at Berlin Airport due to a weather turbulence. she had terribly red cheeks, so I let her sleep in, but now she would only still have phys ed so we decided to keep her today and tomorrow  it is back to school for another week.

The book apperently was well received and my lovely friend Johanna took pictures of the presentation:



this is the other book, the one I had to put together in like two hours before the husband left. It is a translation of the fighter's part of the Marshal's handbook into German, as we are having a number of German fighter's who seem uncomfortable with having to read through it in English.

I did my own letters in that one, but based it on what I got from lovely Lady aryanhwy  I would have flat out stolen her design, but alas I did not have ANY white color, so instead I made something up (which probably anybody will be able to tell, but it was pretty and acceptable to the husband) I#ll put them up a little later.

for those interested the few pictures he/ the person who happened to hold the camera took are at 
http://picasaweb.google.de/traumspindel/Coronation2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCJO7vtOWteH1_AE#

How come I did make another book. I will show you pictures after Coronation. This one was initially 12 pages (at least that is what my beloved told me. 12 Din4 (roughly but  not actually lettersize). translates into 156 (!) pages of Din A 5 (which would be about half letter sized) with an appropriate font size (12 pt) and the occasional empty line to structure the text and some embellishments (I took the inspiration for my own Letters from Aryanhwy they are gold on red and blue, but I didn't have the white color to keep her lovely lines. So instead I made the golden letters be embellished with green and red. It looks nice, but not terribly A, methinx. But it is overall, nice and tiny.  Now, it is indeed a Handbook. I am not happy with the outside of it, but my beloved is, so, since it is his present, everything should be alright.

I am going to pick up my little one now, so I don't have to go and pick her up by bus, when the others are away. AWAY! buhhuhuh! WIthout me.Buhuh. I am of course envious but at the same time I KNOW this is the right decision. The trip is too much for Manou and thus too much for all of us with her. She is already heartbroken that she can't come, if I left her alone with my MIL she would never forgive me (and I mean never, that kid can hold a grudge).

Too bad, that summer vacation doesn't start until the week after next. If that wasn't so, we could all go, take our time and stay in lovely Sweden afterwards for a little longer. Trust the Schulamt to ruin your day.