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Hello! It’s been quiet here, I know. The thing is, I don’t know how I want this blog to continue. I want to keep it for sure, it’s my little baby in a way, but I’m taking some time to decide how I want to proceed with it. I want all my channels (blog, instagram, youtube, twitter) to connect and present more of who I am and what I do. Makes sense right?
I love this blog to be a positive space, a happy place to share this and that; Dance, teaching, my daily life, my travels, art, my thoughts and also other things that can help you, tips for you regarding training and dance and ya, you name it. I actually do know a thing or two:) 

But also…

Over the years, I have written a bunch of posts that never went live, they just stay as drafts. The reason is that I write about something that I care about or have opinions and feelings that I know could possibly create a buzz. I don’t like conflicts and through internet there’s a good chance that people interpret it wrong or starts argue when there’s no need for it (this is why I don’t like facebook and I rarely log in, cause everything there is fake). I don’t say that what I’ve written in the past and not posted would create people being either happy or upset or feeling this or thinking that, not at all, sometimes I just write little stories or deeper thoughts that noone else would care about – aka not worth sharing. But I also avoid posting some of what I’ve written for reasons like I don’t want to be in an argument or having to defend what I believe.
For example, I don’t write about politics cause I don’t know enough and I honestly don’t know where I stand (I can change my mind even in my own sentence) and I don’t write about religion because that is one of the biggest reasons we have war in the world (although, religion has been a huge curiosity of mine since I was a little girl, I even wanted to become a religion teacher if I couldn’t be a dance teacher (in Sweden we have religion classes), so I would actually love to write about it). I love to express myself with dance and writing, so I sometimes create dances in my own living room acting out what I feel or I write a blog post that noone will ever read, just to get it out of my head.

Lately I’ve been kinda tired of being in the quiet. Of course mostly about the dance, art, yoga and fitness world. Certain things makes me so angry, and anger is not a good place to write from. And then other things makes me happy or makes me realize why I’ve loved or been passionate about something, but maybe it needs to improve. So if I do want to write it out and post it or make a video talking about something then I need to be clear with myself what I really mean.

Even this post, I’m not sure I want to make it public. First, I don’t know if you want to read it and if you even care. Second, if I don’t follow up, then what’s the point of my post. See, there’s conflicts inside my own head. And I’m sure this post was a bit blurry and maybe nothing makes sense, but whatever.

The thing is, I’m not perfect, I don’t know it all (fyi, noone does) so I have been playing it safe for that reason. But, you don’t get anywhere in life if you play it safe. 

So, I’ve been taking some time, having serious talks with myself and getting clear on who I am, what I stand for and what I want to share.

Keep checking in here, there will be updates coming:)

Pic from our first morning in Stamford a year ago

Last time we had a storm day (March 13th) it turned out to be nothing. We had rain mixed with snow coming down for maybe an hour in the morning but no wind and in the afternoon we had blue sky and sunny weather. Things basically got cancelled for nothing. Now they have been warning for heavy snowfall that should have started last night and be really terrible storm first half of the day today. It’s been very windy all night (I know that because Thor kept waking us up barking at the stuff on our terrace moving around) but no snow. It’s still very windy. Tiny snowflakes has started to come down now and seems to become more and more. We’ll see I guess. Jim’s office is closed today so he’s working from home. And yoga classes are cancelled.
Every year there’s hope for spring in January/February and then comes March and slaps you in the face. I’m very tired of this cold now. But yesterday my hubby booked us a trip down to Florida for a weekend in the end of April so I’m really looking forward to that!

I have a cute video coming up later today, so check in here this afternoon:)

I would much rather be there now than here:) 

Spring days in February and snowstorm after snowstorm in March. Not that bad today, it’s just raining right now, but they still encourage people to stay off the roads, yoga is cancelled, the office in our building is closed and all schools are closed as well. Many lost power for days after the storm that happened the day before we flew to Chicago and people seems scared it will happen again. Jim drove to work this morning which seemed fine, but it’s apparently gonna get worse, so I just hope he’ll be safe going home. 
Just for fun with no specific idea behind it, I filmed our weekend and edit almost all of it yesterday, so you guys will have a new video to watch tomorrow:) Today I’m gonna make the finish touches of the video, do a workout at the gym, stretch and roll out my leg muscles (they really need it!) and work on a few more things on my computer. What else can you do when the world outside is closed due to snowstorm warning? 

We had a storm here on Friday. Very windy and our apartment was going nuts. All day we had our furniture on the terrace making lots of noise and I heard lots of sounds from the rooftop (located behind our upstairs office). In the afternoon we had the pipes making noises, fridge made noises, windows were shaking, lights were blinking and internet died. I kept telling Jim to leave work early and come home before the storm was too crazy. He left when the market had closed and by then all the smaller roads had been closed off so he had to drive back to the office and take the highway. But there he saw a car that had got crushed by a tree (on the other side of highway so he could still make it home). Thank G this storm was over by the time we had to fly to Chicago.
Today there is supposed to be a huge storm again. A mix of rain and snow. We got some wet snow but so far it’s pretty calm here. But all yoga classes are cancelled today, roads has been cleared from cars parking there and last night when we went grocery shopping there were plenty of people buying the whole store to prep for today.
Jim is working from home today. He had a doctors appointment this morning anyway so it worked out. I will finish my video that will come up for you guys today and then after noon I’m teaching at the gym. We cancelled Monday’s class so I thought it would be perfect to work out today instead since we are all gonna be home due to the storm. 

We’re in Chicago. It was Jimmys mom’s 60th birthday this week so we flew here early yesterday morning so that we could join her party in the afternoon. But more about that tomorrow. Now we’re ready to go have some lunch before we head off to the airport. Have a great day!