Our Thanksgiving 2018

Good Morning and Happy (day after) Thanksgiving! Hope you are doing awesome!
Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day here in America. We slept in a little, cause why not:) I woke up with a cold sore on my nose (fifth one since August, what is going on?) and I was quite upset about it at first, but when Jim came home from the grocery store with coffee from donut delight he bought on the way home, I decided to forget about it and be happy instead, even if I could feel the pain. 
We watched the Thanksgiving Parade on tv with our coffees. Marching band after marching band, they all sound the same and I don’t see the point, but that’s very American I guess. After that, we put our workout clothes on and went down to the gym.

We started cooking around noon. Jim bought a small turkey breast this time, it took about 2.5 hours in the oven. Lauren came over at some point to drop off a few things and then took Thor for a walk. Jim watched football. When it was getting closer for the bird to be done, I started cooking the other food. We had mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots and peas, gravy, stuffing, cranberry and biscuits. Very simple but it was perfect for us.
Jim didn’t get to play football last year on Thanksgiving and I think that was the first year ever he missed it, so I told him to play with Thor, so after dinner we went down to the lobby. A British family that we know here was down there. Their daughter just learned to walk kinda so she was walking after Thor barking back at him. Eventually lots of people showed up, so we had to bring Thor home. 
We had pumpkin pie that we bought at a bakery nearby, played some rounds of HIVE (a two player strategy game) and then watched football for the rest of the night.
Very relaxing day actually. And I love this kind of cooking, cause you can clean up while you’re waiting on something to be done and it’s easy cleanup after the meal, so our kitchen was basically clean the whole time which I like. I hate when there’s a mess:) 

Jim is working from home today. Nice to have him home even if we are only sitting by our computers. I made coffee, had some leftover food for breakfast, watched a youtube video and now I have things to do on my laptop. L might come over this morning again to borrow Thor for a walk. T makes everyone happy and people are always asking us if they can take care of him or take him for walks, maybe we should take advantage of that more, hahah. 
I hope you’ll have a wonderful weekend. Be thankful for what you have and let your loved ones know that you care about them. 
Hugs / F

God morgon och Happy (dag efter) Thanksgiving! Hoppas du har det awesome!
Igar var det Thanksgiving Day har i Amerika. Vi tog en liten sovmorgon, varfor inte lixom:) Jag vaknade med “munsar” pa nasan (femte sedan augusti, vad pagar egentligen?) och jag var ganska upprord over det forst, men nar Jim kom hem fran mataffaren med kaffe fran donut delight han kopt pa vag hem, bestamde jag mig for att glomma det och va glad istallet, aven om jag kunde kanna smartan.
Vi tittade pa Thanksgiving Parade pa tv med vara kaffen. Marching band efter marsching band, de later alla detsamma och jag ser inte poangen, men det ar valdigt Amerikanskt antar jag. Darefter satte vi pa oss traningsklader och gick ner till gymmet.
Vi borjade laga mat runt lunchtid. Jim kopte ett litet kalkonbrost den har gangen, det tog ca 2,5 timmar i ugnen. Lauren kom aver en stund och lamnade nagra saker och tog sedan Thor pa promenad. Jim tittade pa football. Nar det narmade sig for fageln att bli klar, borjade jag laga den andra maten. Vi hade potatismos, grona bonor, morotter och artor, sas, stuffing, tranbar och biscuits. Mycket simpelt men det var perfekt for oss.
Jim fick inte spela football forra aret pa Thanksgiving och jag tror att det var forsta aret nagonsin han missade det, sa jag sa till honom att spela med Thor, sa efter middagen gick vi ner till lobbyn. En brittisk familj som vi kanner har var dar nere. Deras dotter larde sig nyligen att ga, sa hon gick efter att Thor och skallde tillbaka pa honom. Sa smaningom dok mer folk upp, sa vi var tog med oss Thor hem.
Vi at pumpkin paj som vi kopt pa ett bageri i narheten, spelade nagra rundor av HIVE (ett strategispel for tva spelare) och tittade sedan pa football resten av kvallen.
Mycket avkopplande dag faktiskt. Och jag alskar den har typen av matlagning, for du kan stada upp medans du vantar pa att nagot tilllagas och det ar latt att stada upp efter maltiden, sa varat kok var i princip rent hela tiden vilket jag gillar. Jag hatar nar det ar rorigt:)

Jim jobbar hemifran idag. Trevligt att fa ha honom hemma aven om vi bara sitter vid vara datorer. Jag gjorde kaffe, at lite rester till frukost, tittade pa en youtube video och nu har jag saker att gora pa min laptop. L kanske kommer over denna morgon igen for att lana Thor for en promenad. T gor alla glada och folk fragar oss alltid om de kan fa ta hand om honom eller ga pa promenader, kanske borde vi dra nytta av det mer, hahah.
Jag hoppas att du far en underbar helg. Var tacksam for vad du har och lat dina nara och kara veta att du bryr dig om dem.
Kramar / F

Halloween 2018

Happy Halloween!

This year, Thor and I dressed up as mommy and pommy unicorns.
I didn’t want to go all in this year, so I just went for hair and makeup along with a unicorn headband that we bought in the same store as we found Thor’s costume.
Feels kinda silly for us to dress up to just hang out with each other. Last year we went to a party at a brewery and we could have done the same or something similar this year. But to be honest, I didn’t really feel like going to a party thing where we know noone and don’t want to know anyone, hahaha. Na, this little thing I did with Thor is enough this year:)
What do you think?

Pumpkin fun – video

We don’t have time to carve pumpkins this year (“ain’t nobody got time for that” 😛 ) so here is last year’s video from when we carved pumpkins and roasted seeds. 
Pumpkin carving is a great fall activity. Just to go to a local farm and pick them out can be fun too. In the future when we have a house, I think I want to be more creative and carve something really cool and more advance than what we did in this video and I want to have lots of them:)
Anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy this.

Election in Sweden 2018

It’s been a pretty soft weekend. Yesterday we went on a little 4 mile hike with Thor in the Mianus River Park. We walked a different way than we usually do which was pretty nice. It has been a bit colder temperatures this weekend which is good for Thor when it comes to long walks. 
Today, I have been helping out to feed the neighbors cat, we went for brunch at the diner next door and then I went to the gym before the Election in Sweden started. 

I sent my vote, with two witness signatures from hubby and his father, by mail last Monday. I was worried it wouldn’t get there on time, but then I found out that the votes from us in other countries are not counted until the 12th. Votes by mail from abroad can come in as late as tomorrow, even though the election was today. Weird and I don’t really understand why, but that probably guarantees that my vote will get there on time. We started streaming the election on Jim’s computer connected to the TV by 2pm (Swedish time 8pm, when the voting stopped). Five hours later, I’m still confused and there’s no real results. Now they are actually waiting for my vote (and all the votes from other countries) to come in and then it could be two weeks or maybe more before we know what’s going to happen the next four years. 

I don’t like to write about politics here, so…I’m done..
I just hope that everyone who could vote, did! 

And now we went from the Swedish election to beers and the Chicago Bears first game. And tomorrow, my sister and her guy is here!! 

Soccer and Birthday Party

Yesterday we walked to downtown Stamford to find a place to have brunch and watch the game. We had been to the gym before and ended up leaving home a little late, so every place was packed. But we actually found two seats and was able to kinda see the game. Too bad it was a crappy game though (but hey, Sweden made it this far, they should be proud). We had fun at least. We saw someone with a Swedish jersey at the place, but the whole area was mostly British people or people who were cheering for England (three bars next to each other streaming the game so everyone was at the same place which made it an exciting area). 

In the afternoon, we dropped Thor off with our neighbor and then walked to the train station. Train to Larchmont, NY, and then a 20 minute walk over to Mike’s house. Jim’s boss (Mike) and his twin brother are turning 50 today so they had a 100th Birthday Party yesterday. Very cute setup in their backyard with tables under a big tent. The food was really awesome too, just simple fried bbq stuff. There were plenty of kids there as well and they all ran around having fun and later some of them went kayaking out to the ocean (the water comes in by M’s house). A very relaxed birthday party outside in the sun. Some people J used to work with showed up and we had a really nice evening.