I guess it was just one of those days...

... Philippe left for Russia this morning. I took the kids to wednesday activity center and Charlie to the nursery (yes I did get a spot!) and the rest of my morning was dedicated to straigthen out the mess the plumber made of our bathroom equipment order. I thought that would take about half an hour... (yeah, what was I thinking). Two hours later, the mystery was somewhat elucidated, however, still not solved. I had to leave to pick up Charlie from the nursery, so there was no more time left to handle that. 

Meanwhile they were installing the gas connection so we would finally get our new heating system going. It turns out that this needs a certificate and the certification takes about 10 days... so we will continue with our electric heaters for the time being. The electricity bill will be fun this month, it's been quite cool these last few weeks. Especially for us coming back from Egypt.

After all this, I thought: hey, let's go to town, stroll around with Charlie and have a good time. On my way back home, I wanted to get some cash.....

... no more purse!!!!! At first I believed I had lost it or forgotten it at that last store I had been to. Nope. Simply gone! Credit card and bank card! Gone! And Philippe is in Russia. So no cash for today. And I had to call the bank to block the cards. I am still not sure it was stolen, I am sure I should have felt something when they plunged into my little backpack. But I guess not. Luckily, there was nothing really precious in there, except some cash (not much though), some bus tickets and lots of shop cards. Nothing irreplaceable, really. 

And to finish off nicely, almost all the plug sockets went malfunctioning this evening, so I had to be quite inventive as to finding a solution to keep the electrical heaters going. 

So yes, it was definitely one of those days!

cheers