A lot has happened..........

It has been a long time since I posted the last blog. We still are incredibly happy together, although sometimes life throws a lot of stones in our way. But because of our incredible mental connection and our love we managed to get over a lot of difficulties and troubles.

Almost two years ago we moved into a quiet little town in Clinton County/Illinois and we really love our house. David's Dad moved in with us - and so did all his stuff, which makes it sometimes a bit difficult.

David got a very good job in St.Louis - finally. It took him a long time and this job was our Christmas present in 2005 - we were almost broke. But somehow we managed even that bad situation. David loves his job and he is very successful in it. I try my best to support him in any shape or form to improve his carreer. Life got so much better, we are doing very well but still live our quiet life (as good as possible).

We did some improvements in our house

bought a new car,

flew last December to Vienna and Styria/Austria to celebrate Christmas with my family. That was wonderful to see them all again after almost 2 years. We had a wonderful time there and hopefully we can do this again in the nearer future.








We have now 4 "babies" - our four cats. Snaps and Laces were a little suspicious once we brought Cutie in - but this little guy has an incredible sense of opening everyones heart, even Snaps's (his playbuddy), Laces's (she is accepting him) and Dad, who loves that little guy although he normally doesn't like cats. Our newest family member is Moritz, who showed up one night with a very bad injured tail. I had to take him to the vet and his tail had to be amputated. Poor little guy. He is one of Cutie's brothers, but much bigger than him. So, he is also only either half a year or a year old and had a lot to go through in his short life. He's getting better each day, although he still struggles a bit with all the excitements that happened to him during the last month. While Snaps and Laces are still suspicious, Cutie tries every day to animate him for playing and it looks like he's successful - in the evening they are trying to catch each other by running up and down the house, so that you think a bunch of elephants are trampling through the living room. hahaha






These are Snaps (the black and white one), Laces (with the long hair - she is a Maine Coon) and Cutie, our funny little guy who can climb up walls and still (at an age of more than a year) acts like a kitten - climbing up walls, playing and jumping all the time and of course snuggling with Mommy.

And this is our little "problem child" Moritz. In this picture the stitches that he got from the tail amputation are still shown, they came out meanwhile and his tail heals very well.












What worried me the most - this happened last month - my Mom in Vienna was diagnosed with breast cancer and surged within one day. Thankfully it looks like they got the tumor right in time and the diagnosis for the future sounds very promising. I immediately wanted to fly to Austria to be with her, but thankfully she had been released from the hospital within one week and my sister (and my brother) are taking care of her. However, I will problably meet Mom and my family in June.

This is my Mom and my sister Ulli.

We wish you all the best, Mom - take care and we'll see each other soon! I love you!