A new era...

Wednesday evening we opened the door to a new era in our lives: the evening activities. First out is our five-year-old, she started swimming school and she was so excited she could hardly eat before we finally left the house to go to the swimming pool. Two guys are the swimming school teachers and they were very professional and good with the kids. Lovisa had a big smile on her lips through the whole lesson and declared after that her new favorite day of the week is Wednesday! Here she is after the first lesson in the car, so proud and happy:

Lördagsgodis for the first time ever...

Despite the ongoing discussion about sugar being the sorce of the most evil and unhealthy things in our western world there has to be a first time for "lördagsgodis". Of course the girls had candy before but not in this organized, decided way. 10 sek each, with a promise that the maximal amount of candies was 10 (10 is a good number, it's easy to remember and they can both count to 10) they thoroghly choose their sweets and placed them carefully in their goodie bags. We weighed the bags and they payed for them themselves, I don't think I ever saw the girls so proud as when they held out that golden coin to the lady behind the counter. Andrea got 2 SEK back and Lovisa got 1 SEK back, I told them it's your money to keep but they decided to give it to the begging girl outside the store... Saturdays will never be the same again...

August and September check-up!

I haven't been running for over 1 month... The 31th of August I went for my "last" run and the week after my physiotherapist forbid me from running... And the reason is that my right leg started to feel numb and I lost a bit of sensation in my thigh. The diagnosis is fairly clear now, I most lightly have a vertebral compression that gives me all these problems. The good news in this misery is that it's probably not the running itself that gave me this because the triggering incident was my pregnancies when I had exactly the same symptoms. When I increased my running more and further I've also triggered my vertebral compression again.

I've been cycling to and from work like usual and doing the exercise that my physiotherapist gave me but I have to say that I find it BORING. So boring that I didn't feel any joy to exercise and that's dangerous... I know the routine, when something is boring you eventually stop doing it. So to prevent this I joined a gym. It's close to home, they have babysitters and it's not the most expensive one in Stockholm (but I do admit I find it expensive anyway). 

And it is more fun to exercise at the gym, the classes are really good and even if I thought I would break my back during a Bikram yoga class last week it's fun to exercise again!

Now I'm allowed to run 1 minute and walk 1 minute times 5. Even if it sounds terribly insignificant in comparison to a marathon it's better than nothing... And my physiotherapist says I'm slowly making progress!

New colleagues at work

I was a bit surprised when I, yesterday morning at work, searched around for my agenda in my backpack and instead found two dinosaurs... Well we do need more colleagues at work, that's a fact...