What’s life like for you?

Hey everyone!

I’d love to know a little about your lives!
Do you have kids? A husband or wife? Pets? A house or an apartment?

I’ll go first:

I have four kids: a 16-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy, a girl who’ll be 3 the day after tomorrow, and a 9½-month-old girl. I also
have a great husband <3
Plus, we’ve been living in our own house with a beautiful, big garden for just under half a year now—we’ve really made a dream come true.
Living with us here are our pug Alex, our little cat Hexe, and a budgie named Klaus.

So, now it’s your turn!

Husband, dog, a spacious 4-room apartment on the 7th floor of a high-rise. ;-)

There’s no one above us, and since the building is T-shaped and we live practically in the “leg” of the T, we don’t have any neighbors to the right or left either.
From the balcony, we have a wonderful view—we look out at other buildings, of course, but also at the adjacent city forest.
Each of us has our own room, which was the most important thing for us when we were looking for an apartment. Even though the rent is sky-high, as long as we’re both earning a living, we can handle it. These days, I work from home, and my room doubles as my office. ^^

I have two kids: a girl (8) and a boy (10).
A very loving husband and a little beagle mix (2).

I live in a very big house (as my son recently wrote in an essay) that isn’t all that nice. It’s kind of always a construction site that never gets finished. Soon, my husband wants to build a garage and add dormer windows to let more light into the rooms—we’re just waiting for approval from the local authorities.

We live upstairs, and my mother-in-law lives downstairs. We also have a very large garden.

I live in the countryside, not far from Wiener Neustadt. And we enjoy country life as well as being close to the city.

3 children - husband - grandchild - cat

I live in a very nice, large apartment amid mountains of wool.
I also have a beautiful, large garden that has always brought me a lot
of joy.
Unfortunately, since my illness, I haven’t been able to tend to it as
well as I used to.
But at least I have more time to knit lol

Kind regards
Birgit

We live in a townhouse with a garden—me, my husband, our son (17), and our daughter (14). Plus our dog, our foster dog from animal rescue, our three cats, and our foster cat from animal rescue. Hmm, reading that, there are quite a few of us.... ;-)

Best regards
Michaela

Hey :-)

I’ve been living in a blended family since 2009

Hi,

my husband, our two daughters (ages 8 and 11), and I live in our little home.
We also have a small animal enclosure in our garden with our two mini pigs, Lilo
and Manni. Unfortunately, our third mini pig, Brunhilde, passed away in April.

Kind regards, Heike

I don’t have any kids, but I have the world’s best husband and three cats (all tomcats), so I’m the only woman living in a household full of men.

We have a house with a big garden right on the edge of the forest.
In the garden, we built a little barbecue hut so we can enjoy the summer even when it rains. The house is a bungalow, and my dream is to convert the attic—that would be my creative space where I can leave everything lying around. ☺

It’s veeeeeeeeeery rural here; without a car, you’re really stuck, but I love living here. The nearest larger city is Celle, and the town center there is very idyllic.

Best regards, Petra

I live with my partner and our two cats.
So far, it’s just the two of us—I’m only 26, so there’s still plenty of time for everything else :-)

Right now, we’re living with relatives, basically “in the attic” (it sounds worse than it is—we have two floors, our own bathroom, ...), but sometime in October we’ll be moving into our new little house (four rooms) in a small neighborhood with a beautiful, large garden!
I’m incredibly excited, especially because my yarn will finally have room again ;-) 

Oh man, only half of my post showed up,
so here it is again without the smileys!

I’ve been living in a blended family since 2009;
my partner’s daughter is 13, and my son is 16.
We live in our own home, together with Mickey and Minney,
our two cockatiels!

Love, Heike

I live with my partner, two rabbits, and five turtles in Swabia.

Since I’ve been working part-time, I have plenty of time for my garden and my crafts. I enjoy the quiet life, which is often livened up by two children and a grandchild.

Best regards 

I live in a house in idyllic Mecklenburg, surrounded by lakes and forests. Ever since the two older kids moved out, I’ve had the luxury of a large craft room. My youngest will soon turn 18 and still lives at home. Unfortunately, I’m not a grandma yet, so I still have to send my knitted items to others.
I still work full-time in three shifts, and since my husband does the same, I still have time for my crafts. 

We’re what you’d call a blended extended family—we have a total of 8 kids, but luckily only 4 still live at home with us....half of them are at that delightfully catty age^^

I have 5 children (32, 31, 29, 16, and 15), and my husband brought 2 children (21 and 19) with him—together we have a son (6).
We already have 2 grandchildren, too.
For the past 3 years, we’ve been living with my uncle in a 400m² house with a garden. 

Our garden is full of ducks, geese, and chickens, and there’s also our coop with budgies, zebra finches, and rabbits—but please don’t ask me how many birds there are. I lost track a long time ago :-)
Oh, and I almost forgot our cats—and of course, we can’t forget our gerbil. 

I’ve been living with my husband (48) and son (16) in our own home with a garden for 10 years. Almost 4 years ago, our Labrador Jack moved in too ♥
We’re total country bumpkins and feel very happy here. We just have a small space problem: our house doesn’t have a basement, my husband plays electric guitar (so lots of guitars and amplifiers need to be stored), and with my crocheting and, more recently, winding my own yarn, I also need soooo much space. We only have one spare room, and that’s the office, so it often looks very chaotic in there. We’re actually thinking about upsizing again, because our little terror (hopefully) won’t be moving out anytime soon... haha

I’m the “sole ruler” of a big house with a very large garden, right on the edge of the forest—so it’s very, very quiet!
My roommates: the 3 best Border Collies there are :-) 1 female and 2 males. I also have a total of 12 turtles living with me—the oldest is 23 years old, and the 5 youngest are just 2 weeks old today.

Everything here sounds very interesting.
I’ll join in too. My sweetheart and I live here in Norway, about a half-hour drive from Oslo, in an 80-square-meter apartment. It’s more like a house. We live downstairs, and our landlords live upstairs, and we get along well with them. We each have our own separate entrance.
We have our own outdoor terrace with seating. We don’t have to tend a garden or mow the lawn (the landlord prefers to do that himself). Looking after flower beds like in Germany isn’t very common here. There are more lawns and raspberry bushes (we were even allowed to pick some).
The children have already left home (my two sons are 28 and 30, and my husband’s son is turning 30 now).
We don’t have any pets, but we do have plenty of hobby and craft supplies (I crochet and do beadwork, and my husband does model building and cycling; he owns 10 road bikes, 3 in the house and the others in the garage).
The small “children’s room” is his hobby and training room for indoor rides on the “roller.”

Although the apartment is on a busy road with bus and train connections, you can hardly hear it when the windows are closed. Right behind it, the forest begins, perfect for long walks.
In big cities you have apartment blocks; here, a bit farther out, you often find these little houses.

My family home is in a small Swiss town. My husband and I live there with our tabby cat Minka (who’s a senior too now). The large garden with several fruit trees keeps us quite busy, especially when the weeds grow into half a jungle. Mowing the lawn (on the slope) is my husband’s job. Our three children have long since moved out. I regularly look after our eldest daughter’s two boys (8 and 6). Our second daughter also lives in the Zurich area, and our youngest has settled in America with his wife.
The house, a sort of chalet, was built at the beginning of the last century, and when we moved in 12 years ago, we added a wooden “box” because our furniture wouldn’t have fit in the small rooms. My office and ironing room always look very chaotic because there isn’t enough storage space…

Hmm, I’ve been generously blaming the chaos on a lack of storage space, but the truth is, I probably just have too many things (just ask my husband!)

We’re also a blended family with a total of 3 kids. They’re all grown up and have left home. My husband is still here. We live in a large apartment on the outskirts of town. Actually, the area is quite rural—there are a few farms all around, lots of meadows and forests, and right behind the house, the path leads up the mountain. On the way there, I always run into an adventurous hen who greets me with a loud cluck. I greet her back :-)
We’ve been here for a long time, and I’m very glad we’re spared the noise of the city.

My husband and I have been living in our own house in the countryside for over 30 years.
Our two children (a daughter and a son) moved out several years ago. I have two granddaughters who are already 16 years old. We have a few fish swimming in our garden pond and aquarium. Ico, our son’s Labrador, sometimes stays with us when he’s away on business and can’t take him along.

We live on the edge of the village, about 100 meters from the forest. It’s pretty quiet there.

I’m 38 and still live with my husband, my daughter (9), my son (11), our cat Kurt, the budgies Hubert (Hubi) and Wolfgang (Wolle), the crab Mr. Hide, the catfish Dr. Jekyll, and various unnamed guppies and two nameless angelfish.

It’s rarely boring here. But at night, it’s wonderfully quiet. Since we’re originally from the heart of the Ruhr region, we really appreciate the nighttime silence in the Swabian countryside.

Our house is… “big” doesn’t really do it justice anymore. The lot size is around 2,000 square meters, and the living space is probably about 250 square meters (next year, the space will be divided into two apartments; my parents are moving in).
Then there’s a former carpentry shop with about 350 square meters on the ground floor, a basement, 4 outdoor garages (nobody needs those^^), and an outdoor space that was probably once a wood storage area, estimated at 40 square meters (I’ve locked that one up! I’d love to turn that into a salesroom with storage for yarn cones).
Well, it’s a big house, a big property, and plenty of work that never ends—but it’s our little kingdom where we can do whatever we want.

It can be a real pain sometimes—like when I’m cleaning, for example. But when my daughter and her friend “park” their horses in the yard and they stick their heads through the kitchen door like Little Old Man, it’s just great.

Oh, and besides our house, there are five more houses on our street and a few on the parallel street, and so much “neighborhood.”

We have lovely neighbors, too. Chickens, geese, horses...
But my favorite neighbor is the fox who sometimes runs through the garden here at 9 a.m. I love foxes!

@ Birgit

We could really use the 4 garages. My husband would already fill one with his racing bikes; he just doesn’t get that he’s too old for the Tour de France^^
I’d gladly take the former carpentry workshop.... pleeeeease, adopt me.
At least think about it...lol

I live with my 18-year-old daughter in an apartment that’s almost 70 m² in the Hochtaunus region.
The proximity to the train station is perfect for us.
I always say, “The three Bs I’ve always wanted—train access (even if it’s just the Heckenexpress), a bathtub, and a balcony.” We don’t have any pets right now.

However, we’re toying with the idea of getting an aquarium at some point.
Instead, we have great tits, blue tits, and sparrows that visit us on the balcony every day.

In addition to wool projects, I have a soft spot for furniture made from fruit crates.
Our “shelf construction” is featured on the Obstkisten-online website.

Ever since my daughter moved out eight years ago, I’ve been living alone in my two-room apartment on the 6th floor. The southern part of the Hardtwald begins right behind the high-rise where I live. All my windows face the back, so all I see from every window is the forest. Sometimes days go by without me talking to anyone or even seeing a soul, which is why my family used to worry that I was going to go wild. But since that hasn’t happened in eight years, everyone has calmed down again.

For me, this is exactly how things should be: I’m very introverted, so I enjoy this seclusion—and I need it, too.
But when I have to go into town to shop or run other errands—there’s a train stop just 7 minutes away, and from there it’s only a 12-minute train ride to downtown. So it’s all quite convenient. The only thing I miss a little is a balcony, but you can’t have everything :-).

I’ll chime in:

The four of us (plus two cats) live in a small village on the Lower Rhine. We moved here from the Ruhr region a good 16 years ago because my husband works here.
We live in a small house with a large garden. The garden and the big kitchen were the main criteria for us. The living room and the bedroom are tiny; our daughter (almost 12) has the “actual bedroom” as her bedroom, and our son (18) lives in the converted attic.
As a “city kid,” I never would have thought I’d feel so at home in the countryside. Now I can’t imagine living anywhere else.

I live in Baden-Württemberg in a rental apartment. I originally came from Saxony years ago.
We’ve been married for 3 years. I have a daughter of my own and a stepdaughter from a previous marriage; I have no contact with her (that’s another story).
My husband has an adult son.
My daughter has three children (ages 4, 2, and 6 months)—all girls.
We also have two dwarf rabbits living with us, who are unfortunately very shy.

Gabi