Video: Decorating for Christmas
a sudden day off
Yoga with Thor
yummy sweet potato with cinnamon cooked in the oven in coconut oil. Try it!
I know I promised you a video yesterday, sorry, it’s coming up tonight instead. Yesterday turned into a National Day due to the death of the old American President, so Jim was off work. He logged in to work anyway in the morning to just check on things, I edited the video for awhile, we went to separate gyms, I got interrupted by a phone call that I had to take, we cooked dinner and then watched the movie Outlaw King. Simple day, but it was pretty cold and we both had stuff to do. It was very nice to have Jim home an extra day in the middle of the week.
our xmas tree this year
We decorated the apartment for Christmas this weekend. Everything looks nice. The stairs are really nice, very happy with that. The plan at first was to only have the garlands but then our neighbor gave us some string lights and it made it so much better, love it! I’m not as pleased with this years tree like I was last year though. I did the same thing. Don’t know if it’s the placement of the tree? If it’s the same this year but I was more excited about how awesome it looked last year so I’m not feeling the same first kind of love for it now? Or if I just didn’t get it to look as awesome as last year..? It does bother me that we have the frames in the back of the tree, it kinda takes the impression of the tree away. Plus this living room space is quiet narrow, that’s why we had a hard time placing the couch to make it look ok. It also bothers me that I can’t see Thor in his main bed when I’m in the kitchen. We placed one of his other beds by the stairs but he usually goes to his big one and the tree is hiding him. I kinda want to change everything so that the tree is where we had it last year, but the couch is heavy and it’s not easy to move things around here. So to not annoy J, I probably have to just live with this.
Now everything is up and we are ready for Christmas. I wish the maintenance guy could come sometime though and fix the damn curtain in the bedroom. He’s been doing stuff in all the apartments next to us, but he keeps walking past our door (I’ve seen him twice for two days when me and Thor come back in from a walk). I want to be home when he comes so I can be with Thor, but I’m just wasting days. Both yesterday and today I took Thor for reeeaaally long walks hoping they would come then, but nope.
Anyway. My plan is to have a Christmas decor video for you tomorrow but I haven’t started creating it yet (oops), so better get to it 😛
Second test = still pregnant!
Written December 1, 2018, published February 2019
In the package we bought in August there were two tests. One that will show one or two lines and the other one is digital and will say Not Pregnant or Pregnant (or actually Yes or No). We wanted to wait a few days until we took the digital one. I am well over a week late now so this test should definitely show the right result.
It’s showed YES+
WE ARE PREGNANT!
We are going to start taking weekly pictures from today. I’m not going to show in several weeks but it’s fun anyway. My boobs has definitely started to show though, hahaha. I don’t feel anything, no soreness, but I can’t fit the ladies into my regular bra anymore. And my belly is so bloated.
Today I’m filming a Christmas decoration vlog. We just got back from the gym where we went for a morning swim to start the day. Going to costco soon and then we are dragging out all the Christmas boxes and the tree to decorate and make our home ready for the holidays. All I want to do now is scream right into the camera and tell everyone that I am pregnant, but we are waiting. I would love to tell family after week 12 but we are going to Sweden before that and with the due date the calculation says I am going to be the end of week 11 when we announce. I guess that’s ok. And I think I want to wait til week 14 to announce to everyone else. In a way I want to tell everyone right now but it’s also kinda nice to have a secret that just Jim and I know about ♥
End of November
Wow, it’s already the last day of November. Where did this month go? I guess we have been away for two of the weekends plus another weekend of Thanksgiving and it just seemed like the time flew right by us.
Haven’t done much this week. My finger still hurts a bit and my other fingers on the same hand has like sympathy pain, hahha. So I haven’t been to the gym really. I was on the bike for a bit on Tuesday but that’s about it. It’s so cold here now so I don’t feel very motivated plus I haven’t slept very good the past few nights.
This weekend is going to be all about Christmas decoration. We are putting up our tree (not sure where yet since we have moved our couch, maybe we have to move it back), all the decor is going up and some new decor we got for this year and we are lighting the first candle for Advent. Maybe I feel ambitious and bake something too, don’t know yet.
Tonight I’m hoping to go out for dinner, maybe to our regular Friday Happy Hour bar, we’ll see. But I will for sure go and work out before that, just need to be careful with my hand. Also waiting to see if the maintenance guy will show up to fix the curtain in the bedroom.
Meditation video from our camping trip this summer:
A little reminder that meditation is not only for when we feel sad or depressed or stressed. Meditation can help clear the mind from all the unnecessary clutter clutter we don’t need, regardless how we feel. Happy, sad, stressed, in love. A break from the regular life is good for us all. And a few breaths with closed eyes can sometimes be enough.