We have a new house for almost two weeks. To move, I borrowed a car and while the kids ate with Emmanuelle I transbahuté all our affairs. Then, as soon as possible to allow time to familiarize ourselves with our new home, I went back and fetch the children. We left all three on our trusty bike and I made the visit to Jules and Orpheus.
is actually an old shop that overlooks the street. It's pretty rustic but pleasant despite the humidity and cold passing through walls. Reminds me of my childhood home was still being renovated: the floor of the main room is all concrete cracked, the kitchen is tiled with tiles, the walls are covered with drawings of children and shelves stacked with books there is an upright piano, an old race car pedal to children. It's simple, it feels good. The Curtain Shop is open for wood and must turn the crank with all his old body. There is a room with in the backroom kitchen, bathroom, and a tiny room that just contains bunk beds for children. It there is no real separation between these parts and I think it's reassuring to Jules and Orpheus. When they fall asleep, I'm in the room next door, they hear the store and the light entering their room gently soothes ... In the cellar in the basement is the room where I sleep. To get there you must take a wooden stairs very steep, access is protected for the children. There are no windows, just a well day on the street grid and a hole that overlooks the main room. I thought I would feel oppressed but in fact not at all, the room is fairly large, white and simple. The length is a wall of closets with sliding doors wobbly. And at the bottom of closets, with Julius we discovered a secret door! ...
hazards of all these changes is that we do not know well the houses and habits of homeowners and small accidents can sometimes occur ...
Shortly after the children to bed Saturday night, I was in the next room when suddenly I heard a loud noise: I immediately understood that it was Jules who had fallen. These are bunk beds and they have patched up, there is no security fence ... I was so scared, that's still almost 1m60 tall! Fortunately there were a few cushions on the floor ... I ran, I took Jules into my arms and I installed it on the couch, but he fell back asleep immediately. I was so worried that I began to ask him all sorts of questions to see if he had not lost consciousness and had it all his lucidity: "What's your name? "" How old are you? "" Who is your brother ?»... While sleeping, he responded to my questioning normally very absurd, so I was somewhat reassured. The next day he woke up wondering what he was on the couch, he had forgotten everything! When Jules is asleep, nothing can pull of sleep. At breakfast, I've sat still questions to be sure everything was okay, and what is certain is that he has forgotten any names of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, not even that Dunkleosteus If you did not know, "is a huge fish almost as bad as the Megalodon!"
We finally found a board full thin and flexible which is exactly the length of the bed, this must be what normally serves as a safety barrier. It was set up and verify their soundness, Jules is mounted in the bed and pushed a shot from his body as if to pass through. Okay, it looks solid, the board referred the back like a trampoline, to his great amusement. The next night he did not have any apprehension at the time to climb into bed.
By cons I feel that Orpheus does not feel comfortable here, he does not sleep well yesterday and he did not return home. Many nights he wakes up and I have to look for him to take with me in the big bed in the basement. I thought however that he had completely assimilated our lifestyle. It was only a year and a half left when our apartment was too small to remember this period. I guess it must have seemed normal to regularly change house. It's not like Jules often remembers his bedroom and the regret that so long toys are in boxes ... but I will soon be able to recover his bike which had been left up in Belleville, because here we have the opportunity to go and easy storage. I brought mine last Saturday to repair because it has been over a year and I had to do a little revision, it still runs three above! I recovered yesterday in better condition it's safer and more enjoyable. As we do not live very far from the school could do without these days, but given that in January I do not know yet where we are, it is better to take every precaution!
parties and is soon at the request of Julius I bought some Christmas decorations but I confess that I did not mind that. After all this noise in my blog things go by and I still have no leads to a stationary housing, no sign of the town hall to hand a letter from Mr. Vaillant explaining a final report to the prefect of Paris. We descend on Bordeaux for the holidays, I do not see us stay in Paris, children need a change of scenery and be pampered by their grandparents. But I remain optimistic and confident 2009 will be a good year for us.
