Merry Christmas! God Jul! Joyeux Noël!

Christmasgifts wrapped, candies done, Christmas tree decorated, bags are packed - Värmland here we come!

And I'm almost symmetrical again! Merry Christmas to all of You!

We want to emigrate!

It's no wonder Sweden was populated kind of late if you compare to other parts of the world were you don't spend 6 months in darkness. Sweden is wonderful, have great nature, a marvelous system for parental leave and wonderful daycare system. But Sweden is bloody awful between October and March. I have no other way of saying this but this time of the year we are always on the edge of emigrating. November month had 5 sun hours. 5 sun hours. It's nowhere near enough. So after a dark depressing November came December that could have started better. No snow to light up the darkness. Just an appointment to operate out my wisdom tooth that's been bugging me for over a year (why do you get wisdom teeth anyway, what's the freakin' point?). Well, to do a long story short here is just after the operation when I was full with sedative and local anesthesia and thought what this wasn't to bad:

And here's 2 days later, filled with pain, cheek swollen like a tennis ball and on sick-leave:

What a terrible make-over!

After being home from work one week I finally managed to work one day and then it was time for the children to get sick. Well, at least to sick to go to daycare but healthy enough to turn our house up side down, here's our living room after the girls redecorating:

What keeps me going is the thought of that we will, in less than one month, be tanning on a beach in Dubai. Let nothing get in our way...

Happy 1st of Advent!

Finally we got some light in our depressing November darkness. Despite a chaotic house, sick girls (they're well now but they both had a fever and cold earlier this week) and tired parents first of Advent arrived and was celebrated with homemade gingerbread and saffronbread.

Happy first of Advent to you all!

Highlights on a dark November Sunday.

It's been a dark and unusually hard November in many ways. Now it's more important than ever to notice the small but so important highlights from every day life. Like today's thoughts from Lovisa: "what!? Princesses really do exist? But then dinosaurs also have to exist since both princesses and dinosaurs are from ancient times...". And later when Andréa was standing to close to the TV "don't stand so close to the TV Andréa, your eyes can turn into triangles"... You light up my life darling girls...

Here we go again...

The first snow arrived and it was a bit of a chock considering it was 17 degrees just a couple of weeks back...

At least we don't need to worry about mosquitos... 

The picture I take with me.

This past weekend was Halloween and Facebook and Instagram overflowed with pictures of children going trick or treating. My girls also dressed out but these are the pictures I take with me from Halloween 2014:

Two of my favorite girls chatting away, my dear 86-year-old grandmother and my sweet 3-year-old daughter. Love is ageless.

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: