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We Bought A House!

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We did it! We bought a house in Denmark. It's all ours! And, oh man, has this been a wild ride! There's a short version and a long version, so I'll write the super-abbreviated version first, and if you want to come along for that aforementioned wild ride, you can keep going beyond the summary! Summary: We found a house we loved dearly - a huge old Danish farmhouse built in 1777 (and updated a bit, of course) with a thatched roof, big exposed beams, surrounded by farm fields and wildflowers, and right across the road from the biggest lake in Denmark. We signed a contract for it, but the deal fell through . (We. Were. Devastated.) We looked at a bunch of other places and finally found a house that we liked quite a lot in Helsingør. We made an offer, they countered, and we accepted their counter offer. We're moving in on October 15th! << end of summary >> The long version: Chapter 1: The Farmhouse (or The One That Got Away) In October of 2024, Zac and I decided...
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Two Years in Denmark!

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Can you believe it?! We've been here two whole years. In some ways, it feels like just yesterday we were driving away from our house in Post Falls, and in other ways, it feels like we've been here forever. Our actual 2-year anniversary of living in Denmark was Monday, 04 August. Khloe and Harrison were at home, Zac and I were at work, and Kaden was in Germany at a baseball tournament, so there was no big celebration like last year. Honestly, last year felt like more of an achievement, anyway. * * * Since Harrison and Khloe were still in the country with us, we decided to celebrate a day early by checking another thing off of our Places to Go list: Stevns Klint! Stevns Klint is a UNESCO World Heritage Site about an hour south of where we live. Its main feature is a large cliff face that extends along the sea. The bottom of the cliff face is composed of chalk, and the upper layer of the cliff is limestone. Between the layers is a thin, dark gray layer called "the fish clay....
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Class Trips 2025

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All three of the kids got to go on class overnight trips this year! Last year, it was just Kaden and Khloe, but Harrison (begrudgingly) had the opportunity as well this time. It was rough to be without all three of the kids, but we managed. Harrison Harrison's Year 3 class went to Helsingør for two nights and three days. Helsingør is where the "Hamlet" castle is located. It's only about a 25-minute drive from our house, but he was still very nervous to go. His teacher knew he was apprehensive though, and she made sure he was in a room with two of his friends. Zac and I met all the kids at the train station and drove their luggage to the hostel where they would be staying so that they wouldn't have to haul it around with them all day until check-in time. ( Fun fact: Zac and I have never stayed in a hostel, but now, all three of our children have!) The kids were responsible for making their own beds at the hostel. The first day, they wandered around Helsingør and g...
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