Var tog det har aret vagen???

Shit va tiden har gatt fort nu i host, borjade nytt jobb i Sept och sen dess har det bara rusat fram. Kands (om inte annars sa ser det ialla fall ut) som vi nyss flyttade och Ax borjade dagge. Men nu jobbar jag bara 3 dagar till, sen ar det J's jobb julfest, Ax dagge julfest, lite luncher imellan och sen bar det av till Sweden! Ska bli sa skoj att aka hem och fira jul. Forra julen hade vi ju vinterkraksjukan pa besok sa detta aret sak vi isolera oss dagarna innan ju har jag tankt mig, far angest av bara tanken att vi ar sjuka detta aret me!

Axel blir battre och battre pa att ga och borjar tycka det ar riktigt skojjigt, det tycker vi ocksa och klappar i handerna! en frokis pa dagge berattade fragandes att han alltid klappar handerna nar han gor nagot duktigt ha ha.

Fixar med statisik har pa jobbet, sa trakigt, och har redan atit 2 lussekatter idag som jag bakade (och verkligen lyckades med) igar. Hittade riktig jast och inte bara pulver, vilken skillnad!

Vi forsokte ta julkort pa Axel igar, men det ville inte han, sa det blir inget kort i ar, Axel har redan fatt sitt forsta julkort av en kille pa dagis som heter Reef, tyvarr har jag ingen aning om vem han ar, men har nu kopt nagra kort sa jag kan ge ett tillbaka, engelskmannen och deras Julkort!!!!!! aarrrrgggggg

Nej, nu maste jag sluta skolka och borja jobba!

Friday

Then it was friday again, its raining here and so dark. A perfect day to be inside and watch movies, but unfortunately I'm at work with no movies in sight, oh well. I'm off to IKEA tomorrow with my lovely friend Clair to buy a table and some chairs etc. We use our garden furnitures to eat on (inside, not in the garden ha ha), but it looks really quite funny and the chairs are not so comfortable. What are you guys doing this weekend?

oh and Axel can now stand up and take some steps

our beautiful boy is getting better and better every day, so nice to see him trying to walk instead of crawling super fast : ) and he knows how to kiss now with a smooch sound as well, lovely!

The move went well + Passport moan

The move went really well, we decided to do it the posh way and got a removal company to lift, drive and unload (we did pack out stuff tho ; ). It's so nice to be in but we have been so so busy, not sure where the time has gone. The first weekend we just moved and cleaned our old flat. Then I worked a lot last week and had my official interview for the job I'm doing already, I got it!! so now I have work until end of July, but hopefully later of course. Then my old London uni friends came over on the weekend and now it's Tuesday. I'm off tomorrow but my and Ax have to go up to London to get a new passport for myself. I managed to break my old one (well, there is a 3cm rip in one of the corners by the photo). The passport was wrongly constructed when I bought it 2002, after they took them back in Sweden, but as I haven't really been home more than a week in time since then, I never changed it, which i regret now!! Instead of paying £35 for a new passport, I will now have to pay £124 + train fair to London + go and pick it up (or alternatively pay £19 to get it sent to the consulate here in Brighton. I hate having to spend money on things like this, but I got no choice of course, don't want to be left at Gatwick when we go home for Christmas!

Moving day tomorrow!

Wish us luck, we are moving tomorrow and we can't wait!! Sitting in a living room with loads of boxes drinking a beer and eating crisps, not much else to eat here : )

Shit va lange sen sist!

Nu va det riktigt lange sen sist jag bloggade, borja nytt jobb och sant tar pa krafterna. Men nu kanner jag mig mer stabil och provar pa att smyg blogga fran jobbet : )

Vad har hant pa sistonde? Vi packar for fullt, flyttar pa Lordag vilket kanns riktigt bra, forutom att vi maste punga ut over £2300 i forsta hyra, deposit etc. Men men, det ska nog ga bra, lite har, lite dar, lite pa mr credit card sa ska det nog ga vagen. Jag har dromt lite mardrommer pa sistonde med nya huset, kommer liksom inte riktigt ihag hur det ser ut vilket ar lite orovackande. J undrade om dar finns kyl och frys? Jag har ingen aning.... men diskmaskin finns dar ialla fall, det vet jag! Sen tror jag att jag kommer ihag att vaggarna ar lite gula sa de maste vi mala over, pallar inte mer beige pa vaggarna (vi har den fargen i hela lagenheten just nu, fraga inte varfor vi inte har malat...)

Ax trivs utmarkt pa dagis, han alskar sin dagis froken och hon alskar Axel (lite orovackande ha ha). Men det ar ju bra pa ett satt, och han har inte ledsen nar vi lamnar, tvartom, superglad! Oftast lamnar J pa dagis, men han skar sig igar stackarn (lagom till flytten), riktigt djupt sa han ska till sjukskoterskan idag sa hon kan se om det behover sys. Vi fick nya knivar som brollopspresent, men jag ar nastan lite radd for dem, tacka vet jag de gamla trubbiga.

1 manad av sjukdomar!!

Jag blir galen!!! Nar Axel borjade dagis sa va vi redan lite sjuka (tror tom att vi gar min mamma Swineflu), sen har det bara escalerat. Det borjar bli pinsamt pa jobbet, som for ovrigt gar bra, hur mycke kan en familj vara sjuka pa en manad. Nar vi har tagit oss ur denna downward spiral sa ska jag borja skriva mer i bloggen!

Hus!

Efter mycke letande och stor frustration sa har vi antligen hittat ett hus att hyra, ett jattefint litet radhus ala Engelsk stil, sa himla glad och hoppas att allt gar vagen nu sa vi kan flytta i November. Antligen kommer vi kunna sitta och ata vid ett matbord, och Ax far ett eget rum : ) Jag kommer sjalvklart att ta en massa bilder nar vi har flyttat in!

Onsdag

Today is my first day off as a working woman, so nice to be off in the middle of the week I must say, feels almost a bit privilege ha ha, and I know I am, privilege that is. I watched the news yesterday about all these immigrants who tries desperately to enter UK ever day hiding in lorries in, they now got evicted from their campsite in France. These are people without any paperwork, id cards or passports. They have fled their country, maybe left their families behind for what... A dirty campsite and countries who wont let them in, life isn't fair.. I must remember this before I start complain about our living situation. At least we have a roof over our heads and live in a nice, warm (but small) flat.

Me and Ax are seeing Jo and Iz today, fun fun fun!

Svenska brollopsfesten i bilder

En helt underbart trevlig dag som inte slutade forren efter midnatt vilket ar ovanligt hos oss nu for tiden ha ha. Helt underbart vader pa Hven!


Vi at lunch pa Turist Garden pa Ven - nyfangad rodspatta - kan verkligen rekommenderas!


James och Jess (J's bror och hans tjej, och sa skar vi "brollopstartan")


Mina kusiner spelade - jadrans duktiga killar. Och tva sota kusiner!


Mingel och min och Js mormodrar, sa kul att de traffades fast de inte kunde prata med varandra ha ha (min mormor kan valdigt lite engelska, men sa ar hon ocksa 82!)

Min mamma med Ebbisen och lite mer mingel.

(clicka pa bilderna sa blir de storre)

Axels 1 ars kalas

Vi hade 1 ars kalas for Axel forra helgen, vadret va underbart och vi hade en harlig eftermiddag med vara vanner : )

(Click on the photos to make them bigger)

long time and all that..

It's been a while since I last updated my blog, I just haven't had the energy, the time or wanted to. I really liked it before so I hope to start writing a bit more in the future. So what's happened in my life recently? Quite a lot : )

Well - we got married which was absolutely lovely, had a great day and 2 wonderful week in the big house we rented on Ven with my family coming to visit and the family party, Ax starting to craw properly and not just eeling.

Job situation - I got a job!!! yayyye It's a 3 months temporary contract but I hope I can turn it into permanent before Christmas. It's a job working for a Sexual Health, Alcohol and drug advice service at the universities here in Brighton. I used to volunteer there when I was at Uni so to be able to work there and get a salary is like a dream come true : ) I start on Tuesday and I'm so so excited!

Nursery - Axel got a space at a nursery in the area where we hope to move soon (as soon as we find a place!!) which is about 10min walk from where we live now so pretty close in the mean time. He is having his 3rd settling in session today and they haven't called me yet so I think it's going well. He really seems to like it so that's promising. He will have to be there for the 4 days when I'm at work so it's important that he likes it there, I would have liked to have worked for only 3 days but you can't be too picky in this climate and I already got it down from 5 to 4 days a week. It's crazy how expensive nurseries are here in England - we pay £40 PER DAY, and that is not even considered that much, I know some couples who pay over £50 per day!!

House situation - We love to move as soon as we can as this flat is driving us crazy, it's too small and no storage place what so ever! we really need an attic to store all Ax old toys etc. Unfortunately there isn't much out there at the moment - it's a busy time for students in Brighton so the good houses goes quickly and one estate agent told me that there isn't many properties out there in general cos the buy to let market is really low at the moment and many landlords have sold their properties. We would have loved to buy a place but they cost over £200,000 (for a very small 2 bed house) and as you will need at least 30% deposit to be able to get a reasonable good mortgage.. well we don't have 60k at the moment (or ever ha ha). That's about 800 000 sek. So stupid!! Oh well, we will just continue saving until the market changes and then buy, soon hopefully...

I'm thinking about starting to write in Swedish instead, I think most of my (few but still) readers are Swedish so it would be more natural that way, shout if you don't agree!

Holiday photos

We went to Ven for 2 weeks for our honeymoon/Sweden summer holiday. I'm not from Ven but we always go for a day every summer but to be able to rent a beautiful big house for 2 weeks was just magic. We had a great family party with lunch on the veranda of the local restaurant and then we walked to our rented house and had alternative wedding cakes, music and presentations, bbq (in the evening) and drinks. The weather was great so we could all sit outside in our garden (which was lucky as you can't always count on nice weather in Sweden). All in all, just fantastic!

Feels a bit weird being back, I have started to look for work and we have to move from our little flat before we go crazy, but I need to get a job first... aarrrrgggg oh well, just get to crack on!

Wedding photos..

Here are some wedding photos, we had a fantastic day and our holiday was just amazing, so hard to be back in the real world again ha ha.

I'm now married!!!

(the photo is taken in the register office just after we signed the book)

I should be getting the proper photos on Thursday, then I will put up many more of them!

We had a fantastic day - the first of two and we look forward like crazy to the Swedish family "do". I'm so tired today but will write much more about the wedding another day!

Saturday night...

The wedding is getting closer and closer, not even 2 weeks to go!!! We have written a long list of things that needs to be done before the English ceremony and party and the Swedish holiday and family party. The wedding dress is beautiful and ready, my lovely future mother in law have made it and I'm really happy with the result. I got the pink shoes and they are comfy, we got the rings, the hairdresser is booked etc etc, and still the list seems to never end.. But a lot on the list is things for us to do in the flat and not so much the wedding. I can see why a lot of couples wait to have babies until they are married, so much to plan but when you have a baby there is so much else to plan and do as well.
Ax is growing and developing so quickly is crazy, he can now go from sitting to lying on his tummy eeling backwards really fast pulling and tasting everything in his tracks. He is trying to lift his bum up so he might be figuring out how to proper crawl soon. We lowered the cot today as he can now pull himself up holding on to the bars, and suddenly he looks so so little again, bless him. So much has happened in the last couple of weeks, he can clap his hands and wave, he laugh loud and launches forwards like he wants to hug you. He gets really angry when you take something away from him and he loves to eat the same fruit that I eat, apples, melon and bananas, not in small pieces but in good finger food pieces, or even better, eating an apple as it is with my help holding it for him. The front teeth is coming now I think, but he is in good spirit so far, hope it wont hurt too much.

Summer break

I have decided to take a break from the blog over the summer. The wedding is getting closer and closer and then we are of course going to Sweden for a couple of weeks : ) I might write a bit and put some pictures in (of the wedding for example) but otherwise I will be back in September!
Here are some pictures from my Sweden trip.

Long time no see

I have been a bit bad updating my blog but it has been a busy week. The week started with my tooth out on Monday, went really well and haven't had any pain afterwards so it was probably already half way out, such a relieve to be able to chew on both sides again!! One of my dearest friends Emelie of 15 years came and visit us with her lovely baby daughter and her boyfriend on Tuesday. They were over from Sweden visiting Ian's family all over England, a proper road trip. Was really really nice seeing them all and we had a lovely afternoon and evening and then lunch the next day in Lewes, I love Lewes and every time we go there I get inspired to move there, but it's quite expensive to buy (of course it's England for God sake!!), and renting is also expensive, but a girl can dream : )

Lewes 2006

I bought some more wedding stuff on Thursday and met J for lunch and before I knew it was Friday. I took the bus to Sing and Sign on Friday with the Ergo baby carrier we borrowed for my Sweden trip, it worked really well and Ax was sleeping like a little baby on the way home, so sweet and lovely to have him so close snoozing away, almost tempting to use it a bit more just to be close : ) I rounded off the "working week" but catching up with Kirsty over a burger at GBK and some nice rose wino, was really quite tipsy when I walked home just before 11, but a great night!

We went to an alternative christening on the beach yesterday, it was a bit cloudy to start with but then sun came out. We covered Ax with 50+ sunscreen, shade and a sun hat, but I manage to forget myself, so I'm a bit red today. I have been so good up to now using sun factor 15 whenever it's been sunny and not burnt myself at all. But it's so deceiving when it's sunny and cloudy (at one point it was even raining a little bit). Oh well, it's not that bad and I will definitely wear loads on protection today to compensate for yesterday : )

The blackout blinds are working, Axmax woke up 6.30 two days this week which must be a record of some kind, but he woke up at 6 today of course as it was my day to go up early : )

or maybe yellow??

Also, how about hair jewellery of some sorts?

* I found the shoes at random bloggs but they are not for sale anymore unfortunately.

Pink shoes - need your advice!

I'm thinking of having pink shoes to my white (short) wedding dress to spice it all up a bit. I found two that I like, what do you guys think? Feel free to come with suggestions ; )

Boring or nice?

Crazy or funky?

Proof of damage.

Axel is feeling much better, think he has forgotten about the whole incident now, well he probably moved on pretty swiftly, talking more myself I guess. So scary when your baby hurt himself, and even more scary of J when I called him at work crying saying that Axel fell, there is blood ha ha.

Here you can see the damage on the left side of his nose, but nothing broken!

You can really see that Ax is my child - I'm "famous" for having my camera smile that I put on automatically as soon as a camera is in the room and Axel is the same, always a smile in front of the camera!!

oh, and Axel has been saying da da da da da the whole day amongst other things, sometimes it sounds like he is mumbling complaints to himself. Note to myself - have to say ma ma ma ma a bit more every day!

First minor accident and I'm already a wreck...

Ax had his first little blood accident today, he sat on his play mat and reached for a toy when he tipped over and must have landed with his nose on one of the plastic cubes he got. I was on the phone trying to book a room on Ven for some of J's family when it happened. First I didn't see the blood so picked him up and comforted him while I asked the girl on the phone to wait, but the I saw that there was some in his nose and got super nervous and told her that I was going to call her back, called J and was a bit (read: quite a lot) upset on the phone. But Axel got his dummy and stopped crying and the blood stopped as well. It wasn't as much as a nose bleed but still, really flipping scary! I was ready to call the ambulance, but I don't think they would want to come and check out a nose. He is sleeping in his pram now next to me, need to hear him breath now to calm myself down a bit. My lord it's scary when things like this happens, I would be ok if it was a scratch on his arm or something, we could have put a plaster on it and kissed it better, but when it's from the nose aaarrrrrggggggg. I know children hurt themselves, and that there is always a first for everything, I need to get used to this.

Otherwise I think this week has gone super quick with friends visits, chill out on the patio working on my tan with Ax under the umbrella in the shade, had my eyebrows waxed, gone shopping and tomorrow it's Friday with sing and sign and then an afternoon with Ruth, very nice!
Next week is going to be even more busy with me taking out my stupid tooth finally on Monday, then one of my best friends from Sweden is coming with her family on Tuesday to Wednesday, then I'm seeing Jo on Thursday, going to sing and sign on Friday just in time for the weekend again. And the it's almost time to pack for mine and Ax's Sweden trip, can' wait!!!! So we have a well deserved break today which is much needed, the weather isn't too bad either so as soon as Ax wakes up and have some lunch we will move outside in the fresh air, but I think he will have to sit in his inflatable ring so he doesn't fall over again, one fall is enough for one day!

Rise and shine?

Axel woke up at 5 yesterday, I was hoping it wouldn't happen again but of course it happened today as well, I really hope this is not a new pattern or something aarrrrgggg, it is awful to have to go up this early, you have that sort of feeling that you get when you are going to go travel and have to wake up on all strange hours to go to the airport. I'm was (still am ) so tired and tried to get him to sleep a bit longer (of course), first in his own bed (which seldom works at that time of the morning) and then in our bed - which he NEVER does so I don't understand why oh why I feel the desperation to try it every time this happens anyway?! I think we need a couple of blackout blinds so we can pretend it's night for a bit longer, our wooden blinds aren't just not up to scratch. But as we sold the car an IKEA visit is not the easiest now, darn, we should have thought about this before we started to rely on J's mum to go, oh well... I need to drink some tea now, my head is hurting.

Ohh I forgot...

Any idea how to get a little boy to start crawling forward and not just backwards?

Wedding colour scheme, any ideas??

We are having our first (of two) wedding party here in Brighton after the ceremony in the evening for all our friends. No food or speeches, just bubbly, mingling and (hopefully) some dancing. It's not long to go now so we need to start planning the decoration of the place, J happened to look at a play in the same room last week and came home telling me that the walls where blue which I must have totally blocked out as I thought they were a bit plainer. However, when we got there this weekend to have a second little peek and to take some photos we realised that the walls where in fact lilac (but on the photos we took they look blue so they must be magic walls ha ha. I was thinking of having a pink summery theme but I'm not so sure now, all I know is that I don't want a drastic look (you know a bit like James Bond-ish), instead I would like a very soft, romantic, summer cottage beach look with wild flowers and soft light. But that's not gonna happen here in Brighton with lilac walls : ), but thankfully we are actually having our second (family) party in Sweden in a summer house so I get a bit of that in the end. Anyway, back to the subject, anyone got ideas about any colours that goes nicely together with lilac? I was looking for some inspirational pictures online and found this photo, classic!

I wonder on which planet the designer lives cos this is just plain horrendous ha ha, then again maybe it is for older people getting married as I just noticed that the chairs are actually rocking chairs?!?!

I also found a site that teach you how to make a cupcake stand, perfect! Now I just have to find Polysthyrene cake dummies!

Long weekend

Had a nice long weekend with some sunshine : )


Axel on the swings for the first time, not sure if it was a hit or miss, gonna try and find a proper baby swing for him so he can actually swing and not just sit in it while J "moves" it a bit : )


Nice to eat grass and to try the slide (with a little help from dad).

Axel a bit sceptical of his mum ha ha.