The world

Long day at work today and two colleagues celebrated their birthdays so more cake for the people. Lol. I treated them a princess cake and a chocolate mousse cake. I think I have to quit this cake-diet while my weight is still manageable. Lol.

Tucked in my corner now trying to catch up a bit. A nice cup of tea to relax and then I am going to bed early tonight. Need to catch up on some sleep.

We have spent a lovely afternoon enjoying my mothers “smörgåstårta” (and “plättar” for the youngsters) celebrating my fathers birthday. A few things can beat her “smörgåstårta” and I even got an extra piece with me home.. mmm..

After lunch we had coffee and this kiwi decorated cake. Yum. Life is not so bad.

We have watched sports all day – it was Vasaloppet this morning for the 92nd time. 90 km of cross country skiing. Then our alpine skier Frida Hansdotter won the slalom world cup.  Yeah! And as icing on the cake – Hammarby beat Djurgården in soccer (a derby between two Stockholm teams) and managed to go through to the next round in the Svenska cupen. Yeah!

The rest of the family is on their way back from a long weekend skiing. Time to get dinner ready to the hungry travelers. It will be good to have the family back together again.

Last day of the winter break – hardly no commuters out and almost not a single call all day at work. A few fires to put out but other than that – nothing.

I picked up some thai food on the way home – a cozy Friday eve at home with my oldest son and some take-away food. And now a nice glas of red. Lovely.

The skiers seem to be having a good time even though the weather isn’t great up there. I hope they have a great weekend and come back home with big smiles on their faces.

Last night our crown princess gave birth to a little prince. They are going to name him Oscar Carl Olof and he will be the duke of Skåne. Great news! He will be number three in the succession to the throne after his older sister and mother.

My family has been cut in half for a few days. Father and youngest have gone skiing for the weekend. Mother and oldest stayed home. I am saving my days for Easter break and M has his second English test on Saturday.

Have a great evening everyone!

Hurried home after work to get my oldest and accompany him back to the city for a test in English. Part one. Part two will be hysterically early on Saturday morning. Urk.

Afterwards he went home and I headed off to “Bajenland” for a quick bite to eat before the handball game. The game wasn’t all that great – I’ve seen better – but we managed to get two important points towards Drott and climbed a few steps in the chart. 30-26 was the final score but it was pretty even until the last couple of minutes.

My body was so sore today after 3,5 hrs on a chair last night in the training. I had a hard time sleeping too for some reason so I guess that didn’t help either.

A very sunny nice day today but still very cold. Yesterday it was -10C in the morning and today it was -7C. No spring in sight.

February has come to an end and March has begun. The sun is up now when I go to work in the morning. Lovely. Slowly getting there!

A day to remember – a Swedish woman was awarded an Oscar for best supporting actress! Alicia Vikander was awarded an Oscar for her part in “The Danish girl”. I can’t wait to see the movie – and now I will definitely go and see it. Way to go! She is a very talented actress and I have loved her other movies.

Tonight me and my youngest have been through a three hour training to apply for an instructor permit so he can start practicing driving a car. So many steps to complete – a health test, an eyesight test, this training, fees to pay for the authorization and the permit. Puh. Soon we are ready to actually start driving. Lol.

Some really sad news today too. It was very tragic and sad to hear that Josefine Nilsson passed away. She was one of the singers in Ainbusk and their music has played a big part in my life. She was only 46 years old so it was definitely not her time to go.

The other upsetting news was that one of the Hammarby athletes is under investigation for doping. I don’t even know what to say about that. I am speechless.

After quite a busy Saturday we could enjoy a lazy Sunday. Just one machine with laundry and some baking today. I made a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and fresh raspberries – it turned out really yummy! Served with a good vanilla ice-cream and some whipped cream. We had guests over for coffee – my youngest celebrated his birthday with his grandparents and great aunt who weren’t able to attend his celebrations on his birthday. So we had an excellent reason to have some more cake!

Next week my kids are off from school since it is winter break here in Sweden. I will work all week though but we have a couple of fun things planned.