last day in Sweden

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This week passed by pretty quickly. It’s almost 9am now, I’ve been awake for a few hours already but didn’t get up until 7:30, took a shower and now I’m doing stuff on my laptop. I have barely touched my computer since we got here. Our flight isn’t until 6:30 pm tonight, but we have to take a train to Copenhagen (it takes about 2.5 hours) and you never know with the trains here, so we want to leave somewhat early. My parents are at work now but my mom will come home around noon and drive us to the station. 

We’ve had an amazing trip. It really did go fast thought, feels like we just got here. But I feel like we got some good quality time with my parents and my dad got a good birthday surprise and that’s why we came here. 

Jim is still asleep. I kinda want to start to pack our bags, but I have to wait a little bit until I go wake him up. At least one of us should have a good sleep (I feel like I haven’t slept at all). Thank you Sweden, we’ll see you again…some time in the future:) 

Good Morning from Sweden

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Good Morning! My husband and I are in Sweden. I couldn’t write about it before because the trip was a surprise for my dad and I didn’t want to risk him reading about it:) 
We landed in Copenhagen on Friday around noon. We spent the day there, stayed for a night, took the train over to Sweden and up to Falkenberg early Saturday morning. Our original surprise plans had to change for different reasons. So my mom picked us up at the train station and drove us to their house. She walked in and said hi, I said hi and then Jim said hi. My dad had been told that my mom was going to her sister to pick up some stuff so he thought it was my aunt and her husband who said hi. He came down the stairs and just stood there staring at the two of us for several seconds. Eventually he understood that it was us. He was in shock all day, haha, so fun!
The party we had planned to have on Saturday had to be pushed to Sunday. We got him out of the house and set up all the stuff. My sister, her guy and his kids came over and finished setting it up. My dad had no idea and was once again surprised. Very successful weekend. 

Yesterday we did some errands in the town. I got a haircut, I went to fix something at the bank, we had fika at EspressoHouse were I met an old classmate that I haven’t seen since high school, went shopping for some small things in different stores, went grocery shopping and then my mom drove home while we had fika again with my friend Jeanette.
Today we had planned to take the train to Gothenburg, but Jim didn’t seem too excited about it, it’s going to be cold up there plus it’s nicer there in the summer, so, we decided before going to bed last night that we are not going. So we’ll see what we end up doing today. 

We announced our pregnancy

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Written January 21, 2019, published in February

We are in Sweden and this weekend we announced to our families that we are expecting a baby ♥ 

I didn’t want to announce anything until we have entered second trimester, but since we had our trip booked for Sweden now and at first we thought I would have been in week 12 now not 11, we thought it could be ok. We heard baby Wigglys heartbeat on Wednesday and all my test results looks perfect so far, so telling people seems ok. But who knows. Everyone we’ve told I have been trying to be clear that we have not yet got the “ok” from the Dr, we are not passed the scary line yet and anything can happen, but people don’t hear that, they are just happy for us:) The response we’ve got has been amazing and I can’t be more grateful for the wonderful families we have. 

We have a few more people we want to tell before we come out publicly. But I don’t want to tell until after our big test that we are scheduled to have the first day back in America. And then I think we might announce everywhere else (like on this blog 🙂 ) the week of Valentines day or something. 

Three days in Charleston

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New York City from above, so pretty, wish I had my better camera to take this picture
French toast panini with banana and nutella, delicious!
Rainbow Row Folly beach Fried green tomato with cheese and bacon with strawberry jam, so good!One shop had a parrot hanging out talking to peopleWonderful weather in January, I could get used to that!
Sullivan Island I had to hug the palm trees goodbye for now:)Our flight was delayed. I sat there eating candy for awhile and
noone noticed me, they were all into their phones and computers

We heard Wiggly again

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Written January 16, 2019, published in February

They took a lot of blood from me today. Several tubes of blood. I started to get dizzy in the uber on the way home (part also because the driver was driving like a lunatic and had very smelly car freshener).
Everything seems fine. I have gained some weight it seems like so that’s good. Blood pressure is good and I still feel ok.

In the end of our visit, the doctor got the doppler out. Aww, baby Wiggly’s heartbeat is still strong. A lovely sound. Our little baby♥