Category: Every-day-life

Throwing away food is something I try to avoid and just heating up leftovers is not always the best thing to do. So why not turn your leftovers into a new yummy dish instead?

This pie, for instance, is filled with leftover ham, roast beef, blue cheese, broccoli, bell peppers and sour cream. Oh and an egg to keep it together. Simple yet delicious.

My white peonies are in full bloom now. I am so glad they are a little
bit behind in blooming compared to my pink peonies – this way I can enjoy flowers a bit longer. These white ones have the most amazing fragrance too.

So who are you all cheering on tonight? My heart goes to Holland!

 

Nick Park. A British director behind the production company Aaardman Animations. He is a personal favorite of mine with brilliant movies and series like “Wallace and Gromit”, Chicken Run and “Shaun the Sheep”.

If you haven’t seen any of his movies I can truly recommend them. Six of his movies have been nominated for Academy Awards and four of them have actually won. They have also won several BAFTA awards and also been nominated an Emmy Award.

My personal favorites are “Chicken Run” and the short movies with Wallace and Gromit such as “The wrong trousers”, “A grand day out” and “A close shave”.

So – if you have nothing to do on a rainy day – please explore the adventures in these movies! You won’t be disappointed!

Today the scale was not being nice to me so I walked to the subway this morning. Second day in a row. I completely blame my friend last night for serving such excellent food. And home made bread fresh from the oven. Who can resist?

I had to walk some errands at work too so I got a couple of extra kilometers on my tracker. It’s going to be interesting to see how many steps I have taken today (a little over 15500 when the day came to an end .. ) .

The scale might be laughing at me tomorrow too.. bought us a treat for tonight.. since it is Friday.. and we deserve it..

My sister always writes about her being a taxi-mom and I think I might qualify under that label too.. and really – I don’t mind. They years go by so fast and I am determined to try to see the good part in the “now” rather than long for something that might come along later.

Picked up my youngest at the day camp – went to get his shots – dropped him back off at the day camp again. Grocery shopping, laundry, dinner .. you know.. the everyday stuff..

Today it has been sunny and rainy every other hour all day. We have spent the day at our second paradise celebrating my father-in-law who has his birthday this week. We managed to get here between the showers and also go for a short walk inbetween all the goodies that we have been treated. My jawbone bracelet has been buzzing several times today.. (it is programmed to do so if I sit still for 60min) .

The rain finally stopped and when driving home it was really sunny and nice.

Next week is a full week – no bonus days off – but we start our summer-time at work so a few hours less per week which is great!

Have a great Sunday eve!

A good day. Managed to sleep in a bit.  And no headache today. Felt pretty good actually. So I decided to clean the house..

The pollen is almost gone now so I washed our bed linen and let them dry outside. I just love how they smell afterwards. It is the best thing – to go to bed and feel that wonderful fresh scent in the duvet cover.

As you can see, the elder tree is in full bloom now, so I picked another batch of flowers and prepared some more lemonade. I might pick some more flowers and put in the freezer. Then I can make lemonade in the fall too.

And guess what.. it is only Saturday.. so one more day off!
Life is pretty good!

My husband is a unicyclist. Even competing in the Swedish championships. This week he bought a new toy and guess what he will do on our vacation.. I am very proud of him and as they say – if you can’t beat them – join them.. So maybe  I will give it a go.

This week has been filled with emotions and appointments so I am really looking forward to the three-day-weekend. Tomorrow it is midsummer which will be a lot of fun. We always have a great time with our group of friends. I have known most of them since we were teenagers so we know each other really well.

Now crashed in my corner .. have a great evening!

Family back together again – just picked up the teenagers returning from their camp. They sat quiet in the car all exhausted on the way back. I interpret that as they have had a great time! The person in charge of the trip was happy and pleased so that’s a good sign.

Soccer soccer soccer on tv. Tonight I will cheere on Holland and Spain. Holland is doing good so far – and I just loved it when they outplayed Spain last week. Amazing. I am not really into soccer but it is a matter of survival right now and not being completely left out from the topics to discuss among colleagues and friends.