I'm back....I think

It's been a while but now I'm back....and so is the sun!!!! J,D and I had a great day yesterday and today.
Yesterday, I took a walk to church and in the afternoon J and I had our first bike ride of the season. She loves it so it's great.
And today was another day that started with going to church and then heading out in the park, enjoying the beautiful weather. We meet up with my cousin and had "fika" and then looked at different kinds of animals. J loves running right now; she screams "springa, springa" and then off she goes!

We also think she has a new routine going on. She usually takes a nap in the middle of the day for about 1-2 hours. But yesterday, all of a sudden, she refused to take her nap. She was being hysterical and angry, screaming for 2 hours and ended up sleeping only for 20 minutes. So last night she fell asleep in 2 seconds at 7 pm and slept until 9 am this morning!!! Alas, today we tried the same thing; she didn't have a nap during the day and went to sleep at 7.20 this evening. We'll see how this new routine works out.

I'm also aiming to do some yoga, on my own, tomorrow afternoon. We'll have to see how that works out too......

the sun

I had a look at the weather yesterday and noticed that they had a little info-thingy that said that the sun came up at 8.37 in the morning and set at 3.28 in the afternoon. No wonder I'm tired....I work during all those ours of daylight!!!!!
But soon enough it will turn around again....sometimes I wonder why I live this far north!

Belgium and back

I just came back from a mini-vacation to Belgium over the weekend. My sister and I went to visit a friend of ours who lives there and just had her second child 4 months ago. It was great to see the whole family again! Little Annabel is adorable! Kasper, her older brother, is great with her and is very social and talking like crazy....we didn't understand a thing but he had a lot to tell us :-)

First I took the train down to my sister's place and spent the night. Then we got up at 4.15 am and drove to Copenhagen (takes about 2 hours). From there we took a plane to Brussels, where Kersti and Annabel greeted us and took us home to Bertem outside of Leuven.

We had a great time, but it was actually a bit colder there than it was in Sweden and that surprised us.
We went to one famers market in Heverlee and one big Christmas market i Brussels. We also had a day to browse the shops in Leuven. And of course we spent a lot of time talking and cooking and playing with the children. Just a really great time.

And coming home, it was wonderful to see J och D again...of course! It was a time-out I really needed.....And now it's back to work.

lately...

...I've been doing...nothing. Well working counts I guess. So that's my update.
Oh and last week I went to the gym and did some yoga at home for the first time.
This weekend I'm trying to rest as much as one can when parenting a 1,5-year-old. :)

This coming weekend I'm going to Belgium to see a friend who had her second child 3 months ago. I'm going with my sister that I don't get to see often enough, so that's great.

PARTY

We had a great house warming party yesterday (no kids!) :). About 20-30 people (we didn't count), both co-workers and friends and family. We started at 6 pm and the last ones left at about 1.30 am.
It was a great mix of people and we had all kinds of food and sweets and snacks. It was a lot of fun; I can't even remember the last time we had a party.
But now I'm exhausted and it seems that little Julia did catch our cold and cough after all :(

ER

I have to start out by saying that it's not as bad as the title implies....just so you know grandma :)

Julia and I spent 3 hours at the hospital waiting to see a doctor about her eye. She fell and, I think she got poked in her left eye by a twig on a bush. But I don't know for sure because I wasn't close enough to see. She lost her balance and fell forward and there was this bush...anyway.
When we finally saw the doctor the eye had no serious injury so all is well. Imagine trying to examine a 1,5 year old's eye.. . .AFTER she's spent 3 long hours in a boring waiting room and didn't get her nap!!!! But as usual she was in good spirits, charming everybody around her. Precious Julia.....

shopping for Julia

Wow, today I had the experience of a lifetime! Who knew that shopping could cause you to sweat like that. I was completely soaked when we were done. :)
First we bought some snow shoes/boots - now J never sits still so here she was in the store running around playing peekaboo. She got to try on (ie run around in) two pairs of shoes and it was hard trying to keep her from setting off the alarm system. :) Well one down, one to go.
Then we went to get her some warmer winter-wear. First taking off her coat, ,then trying on an overall that was to big. Get a smaller size while she was running all over the place and trying on the smaller size too. And then chase after her to get her in the stroller again so I could pay....

All this took less than an hour, but it felt like a marathon!! Actually I shouldn't complain, she behaved really well and was happy most of the time and didn't throw a tantrum. (She has started throwing tantrums now, occasionally.)
Also, just this last week, she has started sleeping only once during the day and sleeps for two hours in the middle of the day.

Tomorrow, I'm having a bit of time to myself while D and J are going to church in the morning. I will have time to sort out my life so to speak :) ...which means get all my stacks of paper in order!

Good night!