A photo of my little love and me from exactly a year ago

We have a little boy who loves to eat twigs outside. Thor knows that he’s not supposed to but just like a little 3 year old, he ignores us or makes it a game to try to eat before we take it from him. This has of course now caused a problem. We were up all night between Sunday and Monday with a puppy who threw up. He got some stuff out around 8 pm and usually it stops after that, but he seemed to have something stuck and he kept throwing up. After a while, he was so uncomfortable that he started to cry:( Early in the morning after his last attempt to get it out, he was in bed with us trying to find a way to sleep, he started shaking and screaming in pain. So when the vet opened we called and could come in directly. He was so tired that he fell asleep standing up several times. The doctor didn’t get much noise out of him since he was so exhausted but there was clearly discomfort. After two hours with x-rays and meds, he could come home. He was all drugged up and slept all day long. He is better today but still sleepy. But he will be himself soon I think. We are gonna do some more test in a few weeks and then we’ll know more if this has caused bigger problems.
Pets can’t tell you what’s wrong and it’s heartbreaking to see them in pain. Lucky for us, we have a vet around the corner so we could take him there directly and get help. He’s our little baby and we are now praying that he’ll be ok soon ♥

We were kinda busy last weekend and this week went by fast.
Last Friday was Midsummer’s Eve. Jeanette came over around 4 and we met some other Swedish girls in the R. Wagner Park. The festival didn’t start until 5 but there was lots of groups of people there already. Jim joined us after he finished work and then we just walked between places all night. One picnic area with Jeanette and co, another area with Emma, Levy, Carolina and Johanna, the area with the dancing around the maypole, the meatballs and fika lines and back and forth to our apartment to get more stuff to drink and to take Thor out for a walk. Four hours of crazy Swedish people that all looked the same. But it was fun. This was the first time I really stayed there to celebrate and it was nice that I knew people to feel Swedish with.
On Saturday we had errands to do during the day and at night we took uber up to Columbus Circle for Adrian’s birthday party. All the other (younger) party people continued to East Village closer to midnight but J and I went home (we’re an old married couple I guess 🙂 ), which was a perfect decision, cause I was still so so tired on Sunday. Jim and I walked to Tribeca to have lunch and then we somehow managed to get to Christopher St to see the Pride Parade which was just as crazy as previous years.
Right now, Jim and I are ready for vacation. Going to the airport early tomorrow morning. Jeanette is staying in our apartment to take care of Thor, so I think little T will have lots of fun when we are gone. 

I have not seen my husband jump out of bed, get ready and leave so quickly many times before. Britain voting to leave the EU seems like a pretty big deal. That was even one of the topics in the dog park this morning. I was hoping he would have a slow day and come home really early to join me for Midsummer Festival, but who knows.

I have no Midsummer feelings today. Not yet anyway. Every year I say that I have to celebrate midsummer in Sweden the next year. This will be my sixth year in America on the biggest day in Sweden. We have been down at the celebration by Wagner Park every year. Last year I just quickly walked around it before my husband and I went to a Third Eye Blind concert. I haven’t posted pics from that concert before so that’s why I thought I would do it today.
The celebration in Battery Park is bigger and bigger every year and it’s hard to even walk around. Swedish people mixed with tons of tourists and the lines for food is ridiculous, it’s overpriced and not that great (but hey, overpriced food is normal in Sweden, so..). The sun goes down around 9 and people goes to clubs after the festival is over. Not very “Midsummer” to me. But, this year I have two groups of Swedish people to hang out with and everybody seems excited, so I’m gonna do everything I can today to get the Swedish spirit up:)
Like previous years, I’m gonna say that I want to celebrate midsummer in Sweden next year 🙂 As of right now, I don’t even know when my next trip there will be. We have a vacation coming up next week, my parents are coming here in the end of August and we are going to Orlando in the end of September, so I really don’t know when I would even go.

Third Eye Blind at Pier 97, June 19, 2015 :