The Germans are leaving!
It was really such a blessing to have them around too. When Beth came last fall, she couldn't find an apartment, and since it was right around the time the hubby started caring for his mom out in AZ, it worked out that she came to live with us. Then she left in Jan. and not long after the V (as we call our German friend, since her name is hard to pronounce!) decided she wanted out of her current living arrangements (who were loud college students, and didn't seem to care when the house had a *rat* problem, yuck!) and decided to take the room Beth had vacated.
I don't know what I would've done without them, with so much going on and the hubby gone pretty much 3 weeks out of the month. We had only moved to the Bay area ourselves a year ago and don't know that many people - plus I work at home on the site, so it wasn't like I had co-workers to be social with. So to have someone else in the house around eat with, hang with, and to help support me when I was trying so hard to support my husband was such a wonderful blessing! And when I was gone to AZ myself, they were able to cat-sit too! Which just make things so much easier!
The timing worked out crazy as well - the hubby and I just got back (permanently) to the Bay a few days ago, so with the V leaving, I won't be left alone, and the hubby can have his room back! But I'm still so sad to she the V go. On the bright side, we'll get to visit her on our next Europe trip in late summer, and then she'll be visiting here again next fall! So there's still something to look forward to. :)
