The foundation of the pursuit of happiness

The advantages of communication:

It's a huge decision signing up for getting an au pair into your household, but you feel like you need some help around the household for the daily tasks, because of lack of time to deal with it. But at the same time, it's hard to putting so much trust into a "stranger" to take care of the daily tasks around the household, and most importantly... taking care of the person that you care most about in this world... your child/childen. This decision has a huge risk for the family, since they're trying to pursuit happiness by taking off some of the pressure on their shoulders concerning the daily tasks besides of work. Likewise it's a huge decision signing up for being an au pair. Putting your life on standby in your home country for a while, because you sign up for it, since it's thousands of miles away, over seas, and with a whole new family with a different culture, is a huge risk to take to pursuit happiness. This decision has some consequences for both parts of course that results in a number of both posetive and negative consequences since there is some cultural differences as values, norms, and expectations.Cultural clash results in both positive and negative experiences that's what history has taught us so far. 

       My point is that you have to take these risks to pursuit your happiness. In this case the pursuit of happiness by taking this risk is worth it. There's nothing more rewording than feeling like these cultural differences that so far has resulted in both struggles and joy has brought Kensi, Paul and Chris closer to me emotionally. The best reward is hearing your host child saying: "Jeg elsker dig" (I love you in danish). :')

A thing we did to make our daily week day easier by making a big schedule fir each week on this board! A great idea that I'm sure is gonna make the structure of the household a lot easier!

Tea party with the family Friday 4th of April: 

Pappa, daddy and Rasmus had planned out something special for Kensi. In the morning I got Kensi ready for school and broth there there afterwards. When the daily duties were done, daddy and I decided to go for a little shopping to prepare for Kensi's OWN tea party. We went to different stores until we finally found the perfect tea porcelain set for the perfect tea party at princess Kensington's residents. The tea set was pink with both cups, plates and this huge platter to put on delicious cupcakes, cookies or what ever imaginable for a sweet tooth. This fire perfectly into the plan since pappa was bringing all these different cupcakes after work, so the platter would be all full. Yummy! Other than that, daddy and I also bought different decorations for the party like these paper chain rags of different colors and patterns hanging from the ceiling and animal hats for the royal guests attending the party The time finally came to pics up Kensi, I went to the school to pick her up, but full of nervousness to accidentally spoil the surprise... When I arrived and said hi to Kensi, it was so hard not to tell her about the whole thing, but I limited it just to spoil that we had a surprise for her. When we got home, we were in trouble, since Kensi's room was picked out for the surprise, so she wasn't aloud to go in the ere before pappa got home with the cupcakes and cookies for the party. We tried all we could to keep her occupied with something, so she wouldn't spoil her own surprise since it wasn't 100% ready yet. Kensi was super excited and it was a huge challenge to keep her out of the room since she figured out the surprise was in there by they very first minute she walked in, which made it an even bigger challenge After a little while pappa finally came home and we rushed our way into Kensi's room too set up the surprise perfectly. When we were done, we showed Kensi another surprise we got her, which was this beautiful reed dress and we let her wear pair of her high heels and her red lipstick for the special occasion. The time had come to spoil the big surprise and we were all super excited. I was sitting inside her room ready to take pictures of her reaction while daddy and pappa led her into I the room. Suddenly he door opened and Kensi's eyes grew ten times bigger and her mouth fell to the floor just as in a cartoon and she screamed: "A TEA PARTY!?!? FOR ME?!" Just the reaction we were hoping for! Excellent! I the tea party was celebrated with good manners and you would greet one another as "my lady" or "my lord", a real traditional royal tea party!we had an amazing time, and it was just amazingly rewording to see that fantastic girl smile, laugh and having such a good time, amusing her "guests" with her personality which is positively indescribable :') 

 All dressed up and ready for the tea party surprise ;-)

 greetings to the queen before the big surprise ;-)

 And we're all set :-)

 Just the reaction we were hoping for, YES beat it!

Manners are required... 

the result of eating cake ;-)

The queen explains the rules around the castle ;-)

 First time in NY with the WHOLE family 6th of April:

Early afternoon, and the family is all ready for their very first trip together in the city of dreams... Which should be confirmed later that day! a big day was ahead of us where we started up in lower western Manhattan more specifically The Village, where we started out with a real southern states meal!

Me having french toast for breakfast :-)

desert - baked potato, and no it's not a real potato ;-)

Kensi and I checking out the facilities of the restaurant :-)

After a delicious meal, and exploring of the restaurants facilities we headed towards midtown with a surprise for Kensi. We got there and Kensi was full of excitement to know what was ahead of her, we were going to the American girl store. This store with a 3 floor store full of every imaginable doll and of course daddy, pappa and I got dragged to each and every doll in the store but what was most important was that she had a blast, and of course she got a thing from the store, the other thing is just torture, and not only that I scheduled an appointment with me and her to go for their tea-party, where the girls, and boys (if they like me playing with dolls, are welcome to bring their dolls, and have a royal dinner-party.)
             After "dragging" Kensi out of the building it was time for the big final of the day! Daddy and Pappa had worked their a** of to get tickets to the very attracted broadway show Mathilda, which is every little child's dream to go see. Luckily we go tickets the night before. this show is about this extremely clever girl, who loves book and expression herself through it which doesn't fall in everyones taste to put it mildly.
   we had a fantastic day together which ended up in the local towns ice-cream store to end a great day with the family.

Ready for Mathilda!

Definitely ready for Mathilda ;-)

The beautiful settings of Mathilda!!