Thanks to all you TT'ers for your help

Just wanted to say thanks to all you TTers who have responded to our various posts over the last year or so. We are, after almost 20 months of deliberation, finally in Munich and comment repeatedly about what a fantastic resource this website has been - and continues to be! We are so grateful to all of you who have responded to our many questions, and to have been able to piggy back off the many other topics that have addressed issues that have been foremost on our minds.

Sitting in Australia trying to figure out the implications and practicalities associated with moving our whole family halfway across the world would have been a whole heap harder had we not found Toytown!

Am looking forward to finally being able to put faces to some of the names. In particular would love to catch up with people with kids in the 0-5 age group in the Ismaning-Garching area.

Vielen herzlichen Dank
/Mo3

Oh gosh. Somebody actually reads what we write! Welcome.

LOL PES they can read at the moment but wait until a few weeks time and mid Oktoberfest, ...after all they are Australian and have the habit of drinking weak beer and likely think the beer fest is a few blokes with "tubes" in a tent

Welcome!

I thought you'd been and gone in the meantime.

Oh well, welcome to Munich!

welcome to Germany, hope you enjoy your stay.

Now you can start planning how to get home.

Welcome to Munich, first of all. There are a few of us mommies in the Ismaning-Garching area that are interested in meeting up. None of this over-the-top, über-cutesy mommy/baby meetup crap though. We're the kind of mommies that prefer to sit there and drink coffee/beer/wine and relax a bit and just let the kids entertain themselves. If that's the sort of thing you're looking for, pm me.

My wife says it's really hard work looking after the kids. I think she may be doing it wrong.

It is hard work looking after kids. Which is why it's nice to meet up and have a break for yourself sometimes.

I never managed a mommy-kid group, I figured I would throw up first, so wouldn't even know where to start there. However, there is an art to finding daycare in Germany, that I can help you with.

*dancing a little jig that both my kids are school age now, hee hee !!! *

Enjoy - its gets worse again.. This is the calm before the storm...

they are boys, if I had two girls I would be petrified of puberty (soley based on my own behaviour)

They are both in all day school situations and both of them actually really like it (so far) my oldest is a different kid now that he is out of the German grade school, but my youngest is doing really well so far in that same school (different teacher though). Though this means having kiddo 1 at the bus stop 3 blocks away at 7 am *yawn*

Anyway, mo3, there are a variety of ways to tackle the german system and kids.