What’s your Hopes & Dreams of 2021?

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January 7, 2021

My biggest hope is of course to have a healthy baby and I hope that if I do my very best I will be a good mother to our “Lilliput”💗
I also hope that Thor has a better year than the last. He had a ruff 2020 with way too many issues and vet visits. We want a happy healthy puppy this year.
My biggest dream of the year I guess is that the pup and the baby will become friends.
Still dreaming of getting a forever home somewhere warmer.
Overall for 2021, I’d like to stay calm with a positive mind, make sure I have time for my daily practices and get as much snuggle time as possible with the three loves of my life🥰

a look back at 2020

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January 6, 2020

2020 was a challenging year for us all. For my husband and myself it mostly just meant that we can’t go out to eat or travel like before, but staying at home hasn’t been too hard for us, we love being home and being just the two of us.

But it was a ruff year for Thor. Poor thing, he went through so much. In February we took him to a new groomer who misunderstood us and he ended up more or less shaved. Pomeranians are not supposed to have short haircuts like that, it ruins their undercoat and Thor lost his black hair color (slowly coming back now). In the beginning of April, he got bladder stones. Luckily he didn’t need surgery, just needed to put him on special food. That first kind of food didn’t have enough nutrients so after a few months we had to change to different brand that does the same thing but has more vitamins. He absolutely loved the first kind of food, but he absolutely hates the new one. We have been struggling for a few months now to get him to eat. Nowadays we sit on the floor and hand feed him in order to get him excited to eat every day (ya, it’s crazy). Right after he got the bladder stones, he got really bad ear infections. I’m the only one who can see that there is a thick piece of hair stuck in his left ear which I know caused him to scratch which then caused him to get infections. The hair is still there but doesn’t bother him now and the infection was cleared after we used eardrops for a couple of weeks. At one point T didn’t want to eat and had no energy all day. Eventually he puked and pooped blood. The vet told us they found a tiny piece of metal in his tummy on the xrays but nothing to be concerned about. He needed medication orally through a syringe for a week (which was a real struggle for us all).
In the end of November we took him in to get new xrays and to schedule his surgery that we had decided to go along with. His bladder looked better and he doesn’t need surgery after all, yay! We have to take him for new xrays soon again and hopefully the stones are gone by then. 

2020 started with my husband and myself making a decision to lock in the whole baby thing in a closet and close the door indefinitely, maybe never even open it again. I planned on going back to dance, but ya, there isn’t any this year. In March, I told my husband that regardless of when I get cleared from the partial molar pregnancy, I absolutely do not want to be pregnant during a pandemic, in my opinion it’s stupid. But then I got cleared from my PMP in the end of June (thought it would be in November), we found a house that we flew to look at in July and was told that we could possibly buy it in the end of summer (and we then planned on moving in next summer but maybe spend the winter there). So, we decided to try for a baby in August after all for the reasons that we have awesome insurance at the moment, I like my doctors in New York and we love the hospital plus if something shitty would happen again then NY/CT probably has the best specialists in the country. We got pregnant on the first try. But the whole house process turned into a shitshow and seemed complicated so we kinda gave up. We also thought I miscarried twice during the first trimester (more about that in a different post). And then the corona situation got worse again. So I can’t say I was thrilled to be pregnant in the beginning. 
The guy who built the house has been updating us over the months and we’ve been keeping an eye on it as well, and we’ll know for real very soon if we have a chance to get this house or not. Baby Sura is doing great as far as we know♥

To sum up 2020, yes, it has been challenging. Thor struggled the most probably. He has no real routines anymore, he hates his food, I think he’s sad about that he can’t say hi to all the strangers outside and he doesn’t understand why we keep our distance to others. So I really hope 2021 will be a way better year for him (but we’ll see how he likes being a big brother haha). And Jim and I still love each other, we still love and like to hang out every day, hahah. Now we are ready for 2021 and the challenges we will have this year. 

Thor was super cute in his short haircut though I’m so happy that I got to meet my niece Mila in January before the pandemic
We traveled to Jacksonville right before we began our lives at homeI colored my hair pink in 2020
We’ve been hiking
My last blood test for my PMP!
We drove to Manhattan and had a wonderful day!When I was 19w4d

Our ending of the old & beginning of the New Year

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January 4, 2021

Hello 2021! It feels so nice to welcome you and leave 2020 behind. 

Hope you all had a wonderful start of this new year! Did you do anything special to celebrate the ending of last year? 

On Tuesday the 29th I practiced some asana and then did a meditation during the sunset. The full moon was lighting up our apartment and I decided to pull a few tarot cards like I always do on full moon nights or when about to enter a new month. For the first one I asked about 2021 and I got “Blossoming” which sounds pretty nice to me considering I’m carrying a child that is due this spring:) 

On New Years Eve I was so tired I could barely sit up cause I had been sleeping poorly that night. So I got basically nothing done and then took a nap in the afternoon (oh pregnant life haha). J was working til 4. For dinner that night we decided to order food from Luckys. I popped a bottle of sparkling apple cider. I’m not a big fan of that and not much for regular sodas either, they are too sweet (says the person who can eat a whole bowl of candy in one go), but that was the most exciting non alcoholic drink I could come up with for the night. 
We watched “Dinner for One” like always through youtube. It’s on Swedish national TV every New Years and I just love it, it’s too funny! 
We pretty much sat on the couch all night watching the Time Square celebration thing. Then 10, 9, 8….2, 1 – Happy New Year! We stayed up for a couple of hours after that and slept in for a bit the next day.

I started the first day with a shower imagining washing off the past year to welcome the new one. We had breakfast and I facetimed with my mom. Normally, to me, January 1st means to do absolute nothing all day, just watch movies and eat crap. But I was so motivated to start this new year that I didn’t rest much. We went to a store to return something and then went to the grocery store to buy several bags of chips cause I guess we couldn’t really decide what we wanted haha. And when we came home I took down Christmas. Ya, that’s right, I took it down, it was up for a month and that’s enough. I left the garland and the lights on the stairs though since I kinda just put that up and it’s nice light these dark days. Thought J would help me take down the tree but once he was done with playing games on his pc I had taken everything down by myself (ain’t nobody got time to waste).
In the evening we did watch a movie and eat chips. We watched the Disney Pixar “Soul“, it was really good. I’m a big fan of the “Inside Out” movie cause I think that’s an awesome movie for kids and this Soul movie was of the same quality. 

Saturday and Sunday had a good mix of me being really productive at home, building a house on sims and watching movies. It’s called balance, hahah. 

Did not sleep that well last night cause J snored louder than a monster truck, the neighbors were screaming bad words to each other while slamming doors and the mystery ghost train outside was honking non stop. Every time it finally got quiet for a few minutes the baby started practicing gymnastic routines on my bladder and I also got really hungry. But oh well. Dragged myself up at 7am, took a shower and had a pretty productive day. I love this motivated feeling, I hope it sticks:)

I went for a cold but lovely walk around the “cute street” on the 29th Once I came back home I had calm morning with a kicking baby
(she/he kicked non-stop for 24 hours during full moon) Thor got a haircut on the 30th. Just a trim. He was soft like silk.
He seems to have got some of his black color back which is great!
Cheers! At least I tried to make it look nice:)
If you haven’t seen this, then youtube itJanuary 2nd, bumpie is getting really big now♥

not allowed to go to the beach

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December 28, 2020

Yesterday around 8:30am, we drove to Tod’s Point, a beach area we’ve been to many times. When we got there the parking guard asked us for ID with a Greenwich address on it. Since we don’t live in Greenwich we were not allowed to enter, we had to turn around. Now with covid being really bad again they have new rules. How shitty! We are all already limited in what we can enjoy these days, and one thing I really love is to go to the beaches, and now they take that away from us too. I understand that they want minimize the possible spread even outdoors, but hey, to close off an entire big park to only be used for people in certain area, that is pretty awful. Can they not just keep track on how many that enters the parking? This made me sad. 
Anyway. We saw a cute small park on our way there (we drove a different way than we usually do), so we decided to check it out just so that we and Thor could get a good walk of the day at least. 
It was -4°c outside and frosty, brrr! But the sun was warm and we had plenty of clothes on so it was actually pretty nice and refreshing. I got a new coat that I wore for the first time (all other jackets are getting too small, bumpie is getting big). Thor was cute in his outfit as well. He probably didn’t really need the sweater, he’s extremely fluffy these days, I only put it on since we were going to the beach and he doesn’t like to get too dirty.
We had a lovely morning even if it didn’t turn out the way we wanted. On our way home we ordered pick-up breakfast. J felt like eating something other than Christmas leftover hahah.
I made us a rice dish with leftover ham from Christmas for dinner. My mom used to make us this when I was a kid. Since “Mr American picky eater” doesn’t like onions I didn’t add that but I did put mushroom on half for myself to enjoy (he doesn’t eat that either). It turned out pretty amazing if I can say so myself:) At night we watched the movie ‘Hotel Mumbai’. Based on true events. I don’t recall hearing about this back in 2008.
Now it’s time for me to take Mr Fluff out for a walk. Have a nice Monday!