Going home from my friend I stopped at another friend’s house. She have just become a mum and I really wanted to see the wonder. And gee Louise, was she a doll. It is AMAZING how small they are. Which is good, thinking about from where most of them make their entrance into our world….
Category: Not really sure what this is about
Small kids…
… is something that I do not have anymore. I just have to realize it. It is freeing and so so sad.
How did it go?
Yes, I heard from my friend! So cool, so fun!
I am so digital
This is my first mobile posting on my blog. Ok, not an innovator or so. But I am doing it.
Anxiety
Anxiety is what you get when you can’t find the show tickets that you KNOW you have bought for you, your partner and 3 other couples. A night you have looked forward to for some time and booked hotel, restaurant and babysitter for. Divine joy, is what you feel when you find them.
Halloween preparations
OK, Halloween is NOT a big thing in Sweden. But with two boys one age almost 7, ghosts draculas, demons and skeletons are fun. Therefore I took on the american tradition of making pumpkin lanterns – s.c. Jack o’ Lanterns. Can’t remember doing it when I was in the US, but I know I did…
Promise
If you are a good friend of mine that got some pictures taken of your kids the other week (or so) I promise you will get to see them all before the weekend is over. It is a promise.
Louise is bad
And before you take that thought any further. The comment is just a remark that I am really bad at blogging at the time. It is not gonna be now either since “The good wife” is on. Talk to you another day.
Done
If so 2 minutes late. But the kitchen is at least clean.
Weekend!
Yeah! The weekend is here. Tonight I will do some business planning with my friend, lets see how we can get our businesses to grow? Next week will be fun, lots of things on the work agenda, even got to take a two-day course in rhetorics – finally. Hopefully I will become better at get…
Choices, choices
Had a slow Sunday, at least mentally after last nights bike party. A bike party is a party where you and your partner go by bike to a number of homes in the neighbourhood. Starters at one, main course at the other and desserts at a third. One of the dishes you have at your…
What is wrong with people?!
Watching the quality show “Half a ton teen”. It is amazing how stupid some people are. Or maybe it is unfair to call them stupid. But they live in such a denial, they live in such denial they don’t even see themselves. I have a hard time blaming the kids, they are a product of…
So much new
Not to mention that I need to cope with fact that Vox was closing. I now need to learn a new blog platform/tool. I sneak peek on my old Vox neighbours pages and understand I can do a lot. The question is how.
Maybe just one more
A while back the man and myself decided that two was enough. We got two healthy, wonderful BOYS (they are really in every sense, whatever it means, BOYS). But whenever watching these delivery shows; uhhh, gets me thinking. Me, not the Mr, if we shouldn't get ourselves another one anyway. I mean, we are a…
A good day
I am constantly reminding myself to cherish the good times. Today was one. Although the memory of the last pat of Tummen can bring a tear to my eye, I had new moments to put in my goodie-bag. Today I went both to the hair dresser’s and to beauty parlor. Since it is my day…
Bye bye
Today we did the thing we have been dreading since spring. We put down Tummen. Our beloved Ridgeback who's been part of this family for over 10 years. Tummen was a handsome male with authority and a coolness I never seen at another dog. But 12 years of age took a natural turn. His hips…
Being creative
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Back
Haven't been on here for a while. Haven't emptied my camera either for a while. There might be the connection between these two facts. Here are some pics from Sam's first day as a first grader. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
What a feeling
Yesterday I did the last editing for some pictures I had taken for a friend/customer. It is great when the pics turn up even better than you expect them to. The feeling is indescribable At the moment I have been quite passive when it comes to taken pictures for my self. Sam's first day at…
Common patterns
Two weeks after the boys are back at daycare/school, it hits (as usual). Hard and decisive – the cold. I got it and feel so so. Poor little me. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
1st grader
Tomorrow is Sam's first day as a real student. No more pre-school nonsense. Now it is time for homework! Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Reflection
Shit happens, that is all I have to say. Life goes on and I am on the road again. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Superficial
I know it is superficial and low to be wanting things. Especial when the things you want is not good health, world peace, stopping poverty and happy lives for all. But I really want a new LED TV 40-42 inch one. Our old TV is a slim model but most definitely one of the absolute…
Tired
Gee, I am tired. I spent 3,5 hours at the public adventure pool with da boyz today.We went there with some friends. Great time. Good when you are active. But my sons are.. adventurous, not that much of the reflecting kind. Just do it and get done with it. This is a bad combination when…
Fullstop Summer
Now it feels very definitive. The summer is over. A few says left of pure laziness and late mornings before the alarm goes off at 05.45 am and the mental persuasion of the morning jog starts. We "ended" it with another trip to an amusement park. This time in Sweden and this time with the…
Training
I am training to become better at taking pics against the light. I am doing progress. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
A little bit of this n that
Am back after a day trip to Copenhagen and Tivoli amusement park. Great fun but totally exhausted, but will post some pics from the last weeks. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Back from Ven
Wheat We went to Ven with some good friends. Stayed over night, camping. Not our usual accommodation and even if the comfort was not exceptional (especially since we forgot our pillows) we had an fantastic trip. The boys loved the tenting part and I loved the food, conversations and company. Biking, swimming and relaxing. Best kind of…
Hurray
Today I got my first real order of pics. Hurray for me! It is very important to celebrate these things. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
An evening by the beach
So happy to see mum again, or at least her camera… Me and a friend took our kids for a walk down to the beach in Båstad tonight. Perfect evening for that. It is the Swedish open in tennis now and loads of people. Got some good pic of my darling, back from several days…
Dos and don’ts
Do be happy when your child (or pet or partner or extended family member or whatever) is healthy again. Health is usually too undervalued in our world today. Don't ask any woman if she is expecting. Ever. Doesn't matter how obvious it is. One just do not do it. It doesn't matter how happy the…
Chicken pox da capo
I can't say that we didn't expect it, but it is here now. Fabian is FILLED with chicken pox, and seem to be at least a little worse off than his bigger brother. A warm weekend is coming up… we will not be found on the beach. Read and post comments | Send to a…
Beach (again)
Building Fabian and I went to the beach when Tobias was off to work (by bike (!) 25 k's). Sam got a play date so we got some good one on one time. Building a sand castle, playing tennis and having a fika. Life is good, even if it is the last day of the…
Beach
Ok, we'll go for the beach today as well. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
4 years old
No chicken pox Today it was his 4th birthday. We celebrated with morning cake, birthday presents (Lego, Nintendo DS, kick-bike, clothes and more Lego) and NO chicken pox (yet). Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Miniature golf
Today was the season, and for some members of the family, life-time premiere for miniature golfing. Fabian was retuning the club and ball after three holes but Sam, with some helping hands, made it through them all. I am quite impressed that he managed to keep his spirit up. He has a really hard time…
Entré chickenpox
On the holiest of all days, chickenpox entered the family. We grown-ups have had it but none of the boys. But in Sam's class I think every kid who haven't had it before got it this spring and summer. An epidemic in other words. Midsummer Eve's morning Tobias called me and there they were lots…
Our Emil
Here he is, our own blond Emil where at least his character spent many hours of his childhood. Samuel in Snickebo’a Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Life is good
Pippi Longstocking I just had two great days with the greatest people in my life. The family went to the World of Astrid Lindgren. In a very humble way and most probably very far off the extravaganza that might come with other amusements-parks (therefore in a very Swedish way), my kids (and me and the…
Royal wedding
Yesterday the Swedish crow princess finally got her man of the common. After 8 years of courting. I watch the whole thing on TV yesterday and I have read all about it in the newspapers over and over again. I am pro royalties but furthermore I am pro love. This couple is so deeply and…
Milestones
A life is full of milestones. This becomes very apparent if you are a parent. When you stop breastfeeding, when the child takes his/her first steps, when he/she stops wearing diapers and when they start biking WITHOUT training wheels. Yesterday, June 18 Fabian stopped with his. We, his dad to be more correct, dismounted the…
Vacation
First day of vacation is over and done. The sun came, like I said it would. I on the other hand stayed inside and painted Sam's room. We had decided to give the boys separate rooms this summer, but the carpenter couldn't make it until after the summer he said when we talked to him…
This is how we do it
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