As you all know I am not a christian in the traditional conservatory sense, but I have done my own interpretation of what it means to believe. Thoughts that for sure would send a witch-hunt after me during the 16th and 17th century. And by Golly if I haven’t, once again, found a passage in…
Category: Happiness
The perfect picture
Users of social media usually do their outmost to show a perfect picture of their lives. Most probably so do I. My life is perfect (or my life is much how I want it to be). I live it just like I want it. BUT I have a partner (who is not me) and children…
Queen of the slopes
After the first full day (six hours excl. lunch and one fika stop) of skiing there isn’t much to be said then: SKIING IS DA SHIT! When the entire family is rushing down a slope, we are on the top of the world and higher power loves us just a little more than the rest…
Compliments
Receiving compliments doesn’t happen to me too often. Either it’s because I do not do anything worth getting them, OR, it’s because people in my surroundings are poor at providing them. Today however, I got a compliment, a kick-ass compliment. I was told to be an inspiration to someone. An inspiration for the person to get…
Nothing to complain about
Watched the re-run of public service’s new TV-show “Straight through the heart” a documentary about different children who have a need to be cared for at the cardiovascular department at Lund’s hospital. I cry at saved kittens so for me to emphasize with this kind of show is no surprise, but when the Mr bursts out “We…
A tornado in a trailer park
I know I am not all good. For sure I am quite demanding. I do not see well on mistakes, at least not the second time they appear. But I would also give myself cred. I see myself as a quite fun wife. Who after 22 (June 2015) years can both surprise her Mr into silence…
Fabulous exersice
OK, I admit, parts of me would like to qualify as Victoria’s Secret model, or at least as a 150% sister of one. Even if my logic me understands that it will never happen (as I got my mother’s DNA and not my father’s) there is something else about exercise that I have forgotten during my one…
And three hours later…
…the Mr and I have a perfectly tidy bedroom. This was our boys way of calling truce after our breakfast battle. I was of course super happy and I didn’t use the word “but”. We sat down in the made bed (made bed in our bedroom never happens, unless a real-estate agent is about to visit)…
All I need is
A blooper show and my day is done. Laughing and crying at the same time – good start of 2015!
Thoughts
For many people it is action that is the missing factor. They know exactly what they should do, “if only”. One could describe them in a negative manner like people not having the balls to get their shit together and do something about their lives. I would probably describe them as “scared”. It is hard to…
Going to the theatre
Friday was the boys last day of school. Something worth celebrating. Sometimes in a simple way and other times with a big bang. This year it was closer to a big bang, at least with our measures. We went to the… theatre. We enjoyed Charles Dickens’ A Christmas carol. Personally, I believe that when a…
Season’s greetings
From us to you. Happy holidays and best wishes for that awesome 2015.
Christmas tree
So, it was time again to decorate the annual Christmas tree. The two boys and myself did it. Found us a tree (no, not chopping one in the woods, more buying one at the lot outside our supermarket), got it home and decorated it proudly! This year we went for the white and silver combination….
Monday
Mondays can be anything from heaven to hell. My Monday was a slice of heaven. A fairly long drive for two hours of morning coffee and chats. But that’s what you do when oppertunity strikes. You only live once.
Obsession
Darn it. Can’t stop! Help
All my boys
I am one of them who strongly misbelieve the ones who, in their social media status, constantly tell how fantastic their partners and/or children are. We all know they might be and most likely are asses (or something similar) more often than they are perfect. Never the less I realize i am one of them….
Today’s learning
Today I once again got it thrown in my face. The knowledge to never wait and that action is everything. Whatever you feel or know. Do it. Because tomorrow it can be too late.
Longing
Saw these and remember and miss the summer.
London baby
We, of a certain age, know the expression “London Baby”. The Dock family just returned from a longer week-end in this fab city. Love the Brittish. Their correctness and politness. Just love it. Love it. And the architecture! Could just walk around the city watching it. I will not suger-coat it. There was some moaning,…
Proud
If you generalize, Swede’s are very poor at being proud over them selves. We are usually not the ones who will climb up a mountain and scream out our joy for being ourselves, just because we are soooo good. Or, maybe that is exactly where we would do it, as nobody would hear us on the…
Morning walk
Grey, windy, rainy Sunday. What you need is a walk by the ocean with a dog and your family.
Just according to plan
Tomorrow, dear friends is my 40th birthday and today our youngest showed his first ever interest in the female gender. Just according to plan. “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”
Family
Really, no more words are needed (and if someone wonders, the elderly peeps are my parents).
Sons
Really, there are no words needed.
It all ended well
Many people misunderstand my strive for happiness as me needing to be happy all the time – H.E.L.L N.O. I am probably the best (meaning highest) combo of all feelings. Sad, angry, happy, etc. etc. Today we (OK I) took a turn to the angry zone. Me and Sam had the worst quarrel since… I…
If life ended now…
… It would have been a perfect life. Today we decided to celebrate our boys. Just because. Because they are the ones they are. Many mornings we leave the house (and them) just right after they wake up. And not once they have been late to school (knock on wood). They make breakfast, they leave and…
School pics
They are here! The annual school pics. Unnecessary for someone like me who claims to take better pics herself, but still fun to have. To see how they grow. My darlings.
Stockholm and Peter Jöback
For some time now, my sister and I never give each other any birthday presents or Christmas gifts. Instead we do something together once a year. Usually a concert. Or a musical. Or a play. Personally I prefer anything with Peter Jöback. This year our budget let us go to Stockholm where we went madly shopping…
Changing my mind
Some blog posts back I said that yoga was da shit. Now, I have now changed my mind. Dance is DA shit. I love to dance. I never got the chance as a child as my mum really is a combination of the Wicked witch of the West, Snowwhite’s AND Cinderella’s step mothers (no she…
Celebrate good times
The best thing about being self-employed is the fact you (or I) celebrate new assignments. I can’t remember anytime I celebrared the fact I had a job to go to. Maybe I should’ve. Never mind. I do it now.
Finding the words
I thank my blogger friend Kenneth for putting words to a growing frustration in my world. It has become so clear to me, especially in the world of social media, that people are not able to read ANYTHING that doesn’t correspond to their own belives or order, without getting defensive. I feel like more and…
Happiness on a Friday morning
What is the better moment than now, to feel happiness and gratitude? When I woke up my boys this morning I felt nothing but gratitude for the fact that they are in my life. Great feeling to acknowledge
To spell happiness
Happiness can be spelled in so many ways. Like : “Finding your product-id for your Office software after you needed to reinstall your computer”. (And here was supposed to be a video from the 90’s of a song with the words “Hapappapy …ppy.. Feel when wee’re together..” But now I spent 30 minutes looking for it…
Been blogging for a while
I started this blog in end of 2007, so for the fairness of it, let’s say 2008. That my friends, is six years. Six years of sharing more or less important widsoms and parts of my glamourous (irony) life. With a try of comic twist and half-bad English I have lens myself to friends, enemies…
A good person
I know it might sound presumptuous. I am well aware that I have a recoccuring (not totally sound) hybris. But do you know, I really, truly do not give a s**t. During the last days I received some really nice feedback. Of who I am. Not what I do (because there I am not quite…
One of those days
I admit, I am not used to working 5 days a week. I am not. Good? Bad? I don’t really care, I just settle for the fact that I am not. Looking at an old photo that I took of Fabian and the Mr when Fabian was only a couple of months old, I felt,…
Curveballs
Life. It is an ongoing process. It happens now and now and now… You make plans, you set goal and usually it (life) just continues. Same, same and maybe slightly different. To be honest, many of us, we like it that way. But sometimes life throws you a curveball. The curveballs you truly, really don’t need….
Accepting what they are not
If you ask me I have together with my husband created the world’s two most wonderful children. Wonderful in every sense of the word (at least when I forget when they are both human and children…) We probably all know that all our children are not perfect, they should not be. They are children and foremost…
Post vacation / pre-work analysis
Hmm… four weeks. After four weeks of absolute nothing and everything, it is time to get up and get dressed before 10 o’clock in the morning. It is clear that I love to be around my children and husband doing “nothing”. That nothing meaning to do whatever we feel like (and this summer we also…
Another day another doll…
Vacation continues and before the first rain hit we captured some more rays and crabfish, today we went to Laxvik.
Satisfaction
The sense of satisfaction when you realize you have mastered something. The moment when you become aware that you achieve what you wanted to achieve. Backlight. No biggie. Not anymore. I just do. What will be my next step on my development ladder?
A paradise on earth
I think there are as many paradises on God’s green earth as there are people. We visited one of our’s today – Hallands väderö. Visit Sweden in the summer (a good summer) and visit Hallands väderö. Crab fishing beats any computer game any day.
Vacation
Life hasn’t stopped, we are just on vacation and looking forward to two and half more weeks of it. Beach, soccer world-cup, swimming, head injuries, friends, wine, more friends, ice-cream, biking, sun, movies, books, playing cards, late mornings, parties, dancing, more wine, tennis, jellyfish (the stinging kind), wasps (also the stinging kind), bbq etc etc….
Half year report
In four days, I have for six months depended on my own skills, expertise, experience and persona in a slightly different way than the other 32 half years I have had a full time job. I have worked with three new companies that I had no prior experience with and signed a contract for a fourth. I…
2.35 pm
2.35 pm eight years ago I realized I was going into labour. I was at Tobias’ cousins doorstep and an hour before I had looked at the watch once before, just because. I was 16 days overdue and had met the doctor previously that morning and gotten an ok to be induced the day after. As…
Gone fishing
The Mr decided today’s activity. Fishing. I did what I love almost the most, take pictures without the need to deliver. But please do not be fooled by the idyllic scenes, we had a lovely time together on our excursion, but before and after we were haunted by the offsprings of satan. Really, think twice about…
Happy midsummer
Happy midsummer from us! Enjoying some tranquile time under our beech tree before the serious party with friends starts. Why No hubby under the tree? Guess who is working the night-shift…?
Music is good for the soul
For me, music is liberating, it goes diectly into my soul and I cry and laugh to it. It doesn’t matter what kind it is, as long as it makes you feel good, it is good. This song makes me feel good, makes me happy: Com’ on peeps, sing out loud and dance!
Louise Dock 