A challenge!

This winter never really hit it off so it does feel a bit unnecessary that it has to come now, a heavy snowfall hit Stockholm today and the whole city seems to be a white, foggy snowchaos... I chose to look at it differently though, I saw my usual "15 km run home from work" getting more challenging... And it was bloody tough but I made it home!

And I didn't even get a "bravo" when I stumbled inside all sweaty, wet, warm and cold at the same time, no, instead H looked at me and said "why didn't you take the bus?"... But that wouldn't have been challenging at all...

Tekniska museet and the weekend when winter returned.

And just like that another week past by in the speed of light... Or at least that's how it feels like... After sunny and for the season very warm days winter returned on Saturday and we decided to escape the cold winds into a museum. H wanted to go to "Tekniska muséet" where they right now have an exhibition about the history of computer games. It turned out to be much fun even for our youngest one...

"Tekniska" also had other things to offer, here Lovisa is trying to cycle enough to make energy to light up a bulb:

And luckily the museum also had a room for their smallest visitors...


It was fun and totally worth going, it just amazes me how exhausting a visit to a museum with two very active girls can be, Saturday evening I fell asleep before 10 pm... And the same goes for this evening - goodnight!

I'm getting old...

Oh, lovely weekend! The first real spring weather arrived the same time as me and my sister went to Västerås, a city located in between Stockholm and Värmland, to hang-out, eat good, sleep a whole night, take a Sauna and shop! We started off with the sauna, made ourselves as beautiful as possible while we sipped on a glass of whine, ate a 2-course meal and shared a bottle of Amarone, ended the evening in the bar with a cold Staropramen. We talked continuously and that's not that strange since this is actually the first time we were alone since we had our children. So we had quite a lot to talk about. It all felt very good until we woke up Saturday morning with a major hangover and had no one else to blame but ourselves... We could just conclude that time change and we can no longer drink as we used to do, go figure... After a nice breakkie we did feel a lot better and was ready to hit the town of Västerås, a nice little city with plenty of shops to spend some money... 

We looked at old pictures in our mobile phones and concluded once more that time change and goes way to fast... Just look at this, H and Andréa almost 2 years ago:

And cutest Lovisa, over 3 years ago:


I can just conclude that I think I'm getting old...

February check-up!

It's sooooo annoying with all these infections going around and around. I started February with a cold and finished it with one to, just as I did in January. Could we decide that it's enough with the infections now? Otherwise it's going to be hard to achieve any of my goals of 2014.

Enough with the whining, I did run quite a lot considering infections and crappy weather and bloody tiredness...

January 104,0 km
February 139,2 km

Total 143,2 km

Less than a month left to my first 10K race of 2014 and I'm getting a bit nervous thinking about it...

Fettisdagen!

The only positive thing with Andrea being sick is that I got the chance to bake and eat a homemaid Semla. And that's the best kind.


Andrea ate about a tablespoon of whipped cream and left the rest, me on the other hand almost licked the plate clean...

The Sunday snack...

When the kids are sick I'll admit that our snacks are not that nutritious. Or how about a doughnut with pink sprinkles and a ball of icecream in the middle...

First movie ever!

The expectations were enormous when Lovisa was going to the movies for the first time ever yesterday. Andréa was home sick with H and to cheer Lovisa up we went to see "The Pirate Fairy". We took the car to Vällingby city and Lovisa could hardly sit still...


We bought the popcorn, found our seats and all of a sudden she was very serious and when the movie finally started she sat totally still and was very focused during the 1 hour and 18 minutes that the movie lasted. Pretty amazing according to her mother.


Today we're trying to make the best of this grey day after a more of less sleepless night with a very feverish Andréa. Lovisa had the perfect idea during breakfast: "let's go to the movies today again mum!"