Goodbye France.

Its time to remove the stickers on the walls in our house. We are moving back to Singapore as our work contract in France has come to an end. Oh boy, I do feel devastated. This 3 years in the house, I have very fond memories of the things we bought. The furniture that we picked, the arts that I did with the kids, the many stickers on the white walls which we made it more homely and lively. All this have to be taken down and furniture have to be sold away. The first 2 years here, I hardly go out because I was not confident in driving, 2 young kids in toll and the sickening foreign language that I ould not understand. I spent a lot of time in this house and everything evolved around it. Eventually, We grew to have feelings for it. We called it 'home'. Finally, this phase has ended and our new one is starting. I took lots of photos of the house, for memories - beautiful memories as a family and that we have ever lived in France.

The children's beds

Bathroom stickers for the kiddies

Stickers at the stairway

Cheeky posters

Curtains made from bottlecaps. For fengshui purposes

Family photos and crafts made by the kids

A comfort corner for me

Kitchen, playroom and their beloved swing

Living room. Cosy

Tent in the playroom

Children playroom 

Arts done by the kids

Me outside the house 

Love this elephants stickers

Little garden

Walk-in wardrobe 

Our beds

2nd bedroom

3rd bedroom

Stairway up to 2nd level

With neighour's cat, Christy

Kitchen 

Some more stickers

I love them all

Playmobil house - model no. 5302

I chanced upon this playmobil house on the internet and thought that these will be a great investment for the children. My mind was on one thing when I bought the full sets - only when the children are good, I will add in characters and other house themes (one at a time). This is one of the methods that I use when they demonstrate appropriate behaviour. Please note that the house only comes with 2 characters, flowers and some small accessories.  The rest of the characters have to be bought separately.

They really love the house very much. It took me 2 nights to build the house. The instructions given was easy to follow. I didn't give them those tiny accessories as I'm afraid Erica would swallow it.  The playmobil playhouse is actually for children aged 4 and above. I will wait until Erica is around that age and then give them the smaller accessories.

Well, I love the playhouse too.