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November 23, 2020

Hello Monday! For whatever unknown reason, last night I was just so excited to go to bed so that I could wake up today and start a new week. Maybe it’s because we had an awesome weekend that put me in such a good mood, I don’t know. But sure, this morning I got up, showered, ate a big bowl of oatmeal and just felt so energized and excited that it is Monday. I have nothing fun planned today, only a vet appointment this afternoon, but we don’t really need a reason for waking up happy, right?

This weekend was, like I said, awesome! We drove to NYC on Saturday and we went for a quick hike on Sunday. I’ll tell you all about it in the next post, cause right now I’m gonna go through and maybe edit photos for ya:) 

Have a wonderful day! 

November 11, 2020

One year ago, 11/11, our dear nephew Becket More, barely 8 months old, passed away. Long story shorter, when he was still in the womb he had a stroke which he survived. Fast forward to November 6 last year, he went in for surgery, due to that he had started to develop fluid in his brain. Surgery seemed to have been successful…until two days later. They had to perform a second surgery and found that something had gone wrong during the first operation (or something, I don’t know details). There was nothing they could do to save him. Legally they could not pull the plug until 48 hours later, so he died sometime after midnight on November 11. 
This was very tough for us all to handle. Jim was in Minnesota at a college football game that was just about to start when his mom called with the news (on Nov 9). He of course called me. I have never heard him this sad before. I was outside with Thor and as I walked into the lobby I started to cry. I could hear the excited fans in the background when I spoke to J, neither of us really said that much, we were both just in shock I think. I can’t even begin to imagine how his parents feel, still. They are in Cleveland now to visit his grave.

Becket was the happiest baby/person I’ve ever met. Always smiling, happy to just observe what was going on around him. I think we all felt that there was something special about him. All kids are special, but there was something extra about him. When we took him out in the stroller, everyone we met smiled back at him, he made everyone happy. It felt like he had an old soul and maybe his purpose in this life was to make people smile and feel at peace. I believe he succeeded with his life goal and was ready to leave this given body, leave this earth, he was enlightened. He was not taken from us for no reason, or at least that’s what I want to believe.
We only met him once, a couple of weeks before he passed, but like I said, there was something special about him. He will forever be in our hearts ♥

  

November 5, 2020

People outside of America are all talking about Christmas already😳 Excuse me, but that’s insane. You’re welcome to talk about gingerbread, decorations and wrapping gifts in December, but hey, November just started, take a chill pill😎

The past week or so, everywhere I look people are talking about Christmas. If I watch some youtuber from  lets say the UK or Canada they are talking about Christmas decorations and gift shopping, and if I happen to open facebook for only a few minutes everyone I know in Sweden mention something about Christmas. This morning I spent maybe less than two minutes on FB and I saw like twelve posts with and without pictures of how friends of mine has started to decorate their homes, they are baking gingerbread houses, their kids are writing lists to Santa and someone was talking about how he likes glogg (Swedish mulled wine). IT. IS. ONLY. NOVEMBER! Here in America we just had Halloween and now we are slowly getting ready for Thanksgiving. Once that’s all over we can start thinking about Christmas. 
When I was a kid, my parents didn’t put up the tree or decorations until like the day before Christmas Eve. I think that is a bit late since you take down the tree like a week possibly two weeks later, I am fine having it up for most of December. But these day the stores starts to prepare you for Christmas already in September, and Halloween stuff is up already in July (and gone by the time xmas stuff is out which is weird). That is crazy. 

Nope, no Christmas talk until December 1 or later, ok people, you hear me. Lets enjoy the fall first!

We had over 20°c two weekends ago and then the temperature dropped drastically down to 0°c and we even had snow! (only for 10 minutes though but still). We’ve been icicles all week but now the temperatures up by the 20s again. I’m gonna enjoy the heck out of this weekend and ignore all the Christmas talk. 

November 4, 2020

Imperfection is beauty
madness is genius
and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring
– marilyn monroe –

October 20, 2020

Waking up to find out your husbands boss (which is also a friend) is coming to visit soon and your home looks so messy and is not in condition of having guests….puh, that stressed me out a bit. I knew J was going to see him this morning but they had been talking about going for a walk with Thor and grab a coffee on the go, but it is now raining so, as I was about to take my first spoon of oatmeal he told me that we will have a visitor in 20 minutes(!!) I usually don’t care if my home is a little dusty or some things lying around here and there, this is a well used home so that’s expected, I expect the same in other peoples homes, but now, it wasn’t exactly the cleanest plus all the other mess which just didn’t make our home presentable, it wouldn’t matter if it was my sister or the king coming to visit, our home needed a touch-up.
One of my superhero skills is fast cleaning and I can make the home look fake clean real fast haha. I scrubbed the toilet and the sink, did a super quick vacuuming, cleaned up bits here and there on both floors, made the kitchen look nice AND took a shower and got myself ready, went upstairs and ate my (cold) oatmeal. All in less than twenty minutes. Our home looked really neat and clean after that, like magic. During my superhero moments I bitch and moan about it the whole time but then once I’m done, I’m really proud of myself 😀

I’m hanging out mostly upstairs now letting the men having a work meeting with Thor on the couch. Also because you know, corona, it is stupid to sit and breathe next to him plus I have nothing to do with their job haha. Good for them to see each other in person I think, they have been working sitting next to each other for 11 years but now been working from home since March and who knows if they ever go back to an office again (more and more companies have realized that people can stay home and get the job done from there). 

And speaking of nothing… What should Thor be for Halloween this year? I have no good ideas this year. Our building has a competition for the dogs and T is too cute not to win:) Any suggestions?