Lovisa 3 years old!

Three years ago at Danderyds hospital a very special girl saw the daylight. I was a mother for the first time in my life and H and me really became a real family. Unreal! And it's even more unreal that it already past three years and our little baby climbs, speaks, draws, sleeps without diapers and swears (I believe that's partially my fault...).

 Hours old in papas arms

 One year old already!

Two years old!

 Today, three years old!

Papas girl!

We had a wonderful day filled with lots of good food and sweets, laughter and love!

Lovisa with her morning gift, an umbrella with "spöket laban"

 Morfar helped to open all the nice gifts...

 Andréa got a hat from mormor as a little comfort gift... She was very happy about that!

 I baked all evening yesterday and half Saturday, these mini cupcakes were absolutely delicious...

The cake!

Lovisa is still playing with all the gifts and I have a feeling it's going to be a bit hard to make her sleep tonight. But it's not every day a girl turns three years old... 

My day.

Godmorning!

Work, work, work! Get the kids! Go to the park just for a fast visit! Rushing home! Making supper! Andréa poops on the floor! Bath time! Snuggle time!

Goodnight!

Exhausted.

Ok I admit, I'm really tired tonight. To try to get back in "work-mood" with early mornings, trying to show enthusiasm and engagement at work, picking up the girls, fixing supper, giving them a bath, cut their hair and try to prepare for Saturday's birthday party is a bit exhausting... I promise - no baking tonight!

Think twice.

I've been thinking about this and I can't just let it go. When I got my bib for Saturday's race I also got a "goodie bag". A bag full of information, papers and samples from different sponsors. This bag was given to everyone regardless of age and/or disease. For example this pack of pills was there, "take one pill per day to increase your brain capacity" it says on the box.



I just hope everyone think twice before eating a product like this. To eat B vitamins thousands times more than the daily recommended dose (RDI) is not anything I would recommend if your doctor didn't prescribe it for a specific reason. Some of these vitamins and minerals are stored in the liver and you don't have to be a genius to understand that it's a lot of work to take care of to high amounts. And the amounts in this box are gigantic.

No, skip these pills and take a nice evening walk or a yoga pass instead and increase your brain capacity without shocking your liver!

Efficient or just insane?

I don't know if it was good or just plain stupid to bake 24 pizza buns after my first work day in three years but now it's done. The whole apartment smells like a little pizza place. We have a soon to be three year old that's all excited over her coming party on Saturday and I have to start preparing because my feeling is I'm not going to see this week go by...

And oh, work was fine, I even got a massage. Now - sleep!

And so it begins...

Kissed the girls and my man goodbye (well, Lovisa was still sleeping so she got an extra tender look). Now on the bus through Stockholm together with a bunch of tired strangers. My new life begins...

54:49!

It was wet, it was hard and it was absolutely wonderful! Here I am with two other brave women after the race, we were 25 761 women that finished the race. 

After the race and my relatively new white shoes are no longer white...

My summergoal was to complete this race in less than 60 minutes so I'm very happy about my time. Now I've got a taste for running and I want to find a goal for this autumn - any ideas?

To celebrate our achievement we went out to do Stockholm last night. We ate good food, drank good drinks, talked, danced and laughed. It was a wonderful evening and it was the first time for years (the first time since Lovisa was born actually) that I had a real night out. A good energy boost before my first workweek...