Bear Monkey Mouse: Once upon a time

Es gab einmal eine Familie. Once upon a time there was a family who got the chance to live one year of their lives as if in a fairytale. That family was us and we got to live where the houses looked like the ones you drew when you were a kid, where you could visit fantastic friends by jumping on bikes, where there was a windmill at the end of the street and where there were four seasons. Ah, the weather, one must talk about the weather sometimes. We marked our year with a heatwave, a trek through the forest to the pool and sitting in the castle garden playing backgammon, the magic of the leaves changing colour and falling and the beginning of the crafting the kids did all year, thick snow on the ground for six weeks, a white Christmas day, Christmas market, kindergarten in the snow, wrestling kids into winter clothing, sledding and watching an igloo on our daily journeys then waiting for the warmth to come back, seeing the bunnies return in the garden, trips to the windmill, playing in friends gardens in paddle pools and trips to the ice cream cafes all done with the assistance of our trusty pushbikes to race us around the city and sometimes just a little further. Now that story of the 'Bicycle/Aeroplane Family' has come to an end, luckily our adventures can be relived in our memory, through photos, keepsakes and by keeping in touch with our Germany family. If you know chapter books than you will know that even though it is terribly sad (insert tears here) when a much loved chapter ends good chapter books always have more adventures just waiting to unfold.