Month: August 2016

Today it is the anniversary for us becoming God-parents for K. We try to keep up a tradition in remembering the day with a little something and we gave her a present last night at the movies. This pic was taken the day before her birthday in May.

A long lazy day – been grocery shopping and a quick run to the collecting point of waste to get rid of paper, glass and metal garbage – but nothing other than that. Now I have enjoyed a great game of handball where Denmark managed to defeat France in the final of the Olympics. Wow. Denmark have played a great tournament.

Weekend. First week back to work after summer vacation done. Time to sort out the house – do some vacuuming, laundry, cleaning. Picked some of the apples and made a pie. Cut the rose-hip bush and now I look like I had a fight with a cat. Lol.

Our youngest was supposed to go and see a movie tonight but one of his friends got sick so we decided to go and see another movie instead with the family. We called my nieces and their dad and they went along too. So we all went to see “Tarzan the legend” with Alexander Skarsgård and Samuel L Jackson. We all enjoyed it.

What a boring day. Rain rain rain and quite chilly. Feels like fall. What happened to the summer? Gone in a flash. It’s hard to cheer up when you have to start wearing fall clothes immediately after returning from summer holiday.

Tucked in my corner relaxing after a long day at work. Tomorrow we have a great soccer game to look forward to. Our ladies managed to go all the way to the finals in the Olympics. Defeating both the US in the quarter finals and then Brazil in the semi. With 60.000 people cheering on Brazil and 100 cheering on Sweden in the Macarana stadium. Lol. But we did it! After penalty kicks in both games.

Midweek and time for our youngest to start school again after his summer holiday. Same school and program as his brother graduated from in June – with just a small change in direction – web programming instead of focus on the college prep one. Tonight we have been to the first parent meeting and now we’re off. Three more years then another graduate is ready for the world.

Fall has begun for almost all of us now – time to get busy again. But we have a fun weekend away planned in a couple of weeks to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary. Yeah!

Important day for the Swedish ladies. First the soccer team plays the semi final towards Brazil and then the handball team plays quarter final towards Norway. And in between it is the last episode of “Allsång på Skansen”. My corner is my best friend this evening – I’m not going anywhere besides to get some more coffee or a snack. Maybe.

Now let’s cheer on Sweden! Go girls!

Back in business. First day at work for a whole month. And my oldest sons first day at college. We all went up fairly early to get ready. Stockholm was a bit grey today and after my day at work I met up with F, K & S at Gröna Lund for an afternoon of fun. My husband was supposed to be there too but he couldn’t find any parking so he just dropped them off and went back home again. So, I ended up watching bags and watching happy kids all afternoon while the youngsters amused themselves. Unfortunately there was a lot of people there so the lines were quite long for each attraction which forced them to chose what to do since there wasn’t time enough to do everything a lot of times. The park had put up signs showing the estimated waiting time for each attraction and it varied between 20-40 min. The lines to get something to eat or drink was equally long.

M had a good first day at college and came home quite late after a dinner get-together. I hope he will enjoy college and I wish him all the best to succeed in his studies.

No morning swim today for the first time in like a month. Miss our paradise already.

Sleep in is not my thing so I got up fairly early and have been busy most of the day. Done laundry, picked berries, cooked lunch & dinner, ironed. Downloaded the photos from the summer from my cellphone – I will try to put them together in a new album. It is quite chilly today – feels almost like fall has arrived. Our neighbor said it was 3,5C in the morning the other day. Brrrr.

I am quite upset too – TV3 had announced that they would send the ladies handball game today but instead they have been showing golf all day long and sent the handball in one of the expensive pay channels instead (which we don’t have). I will be even more upset if they move the semi final in the ladies soccer on Tuesday too to another channel.

I hate crossing this bridge in this direction. It might mean that vacation is over and it’s time to go back home. Not always, but sometimes. Busy morning packing our things and hit the road. We were afraid we might hit traffic but the journey home was fine. No chaos in Södertälje and no lines towards Stockholm either. Yeah!

Really bad news when we got back.. no channel 10 available on our TV.. 🙁 that means just one channel to watch the olympics on. Fingers crossed they will broadcast the things I am interested in on channel 3 so I can watch it.

Tonight it is time for Midnattsloppet but we are not running this year. My parents are in there working as volunteers as usual. They are the best. I hope Hammarby appreciates all they do for them.