Sunny morning?

I've been a bit slack lately with the blog, don't have much to write really, everyday is the same here, play, food and walks, maybe see a friend or two. The weather has not been the best, but I hope today will bring sunshine, it looks promising! It's a long weekend here in UK with Monday off which is nice. We just chilled out yesterday, I had some time for myself while Ax and J was out and about but managed to sleep most of it, damn. Haven't been sleeping so well lately, not sure why, just toss and turn a lot before finally sleeping and then waking up if Ax stirres. I went to the Job centre last week to see if I could get some job seeker allowance while I'm looking for work, what a depressing place, and flipping weirdos! They didn't wanted to help me with the pram up the stairs (health and safety apparently), and the lift they got was only for staff!?!?! Then I had to sit and wait for a long time even tho the specifically told me on the phone that it was crucial that I was there on time. After all this waiting I don't seem to be eligible as I strangely enough haven't paid enough National Insurance for 06-07 aaarrrrrggggg (typ A kassa). Oh well, I was a bit upset afterwards and think I might not go there again, it's such a negative place and don't think it's for me really, just gets you down, I have been positive that everything will be fine, I have never had a problem finding work before, so why now, would be a shame if they change my frame of mind with their negativity, and as we don't have a nursery place for Ax until Sept it would be hard for me to find alternative nursery care over the summer anyway, but we'll see. Enough depressing things, and here's for hoping that the recession will soon end!!!!

Axel clapping part two!

The mobile video function isn't the best, he usually don't move in slowmotion (although I must admit I wish he did sometimes : )

Axel clapping!

Sorry about the bad quality, we got a little clapper in our family!

Sweden here I come...

I managed to book my short weekend trip to Sweden last night, been meaning to do it for a long time, think I got mixed emotions! Me and Ax flew a week before J at Christmas and it was a bit too long for my taste, both being away from J and have Ax alone, I salute all the single parents out there, I get tired after just a couple of days! But hopefully I will feel different this time, Axel will be older and not so demanding (well at least he will sleep a bit better) than last time. I will only be in Sweden for 6 days (with almost 2 of them travel days) so not too long really. The only negative thing with that is that we wont have time to see any friends unfortunately, and then of course when we all go in Aug we will spend all our time on the island chilling out. Oh well, that's the way it is some years. I'm flying out the day before Midsummer and I'm super excited to celebrate a proper Swedish Midsummer for a change, it was about 10 years since last time I celebrated in Sweden. I have of course been to a couple of different constellations here in UK, but it just isn't the same.

Eventful Friday.

We placed the ad for the car on Thursday night in Auto Trader (the ripoff company of the century, they charge £40 to have an ad in for a couple of weeks, bonkers) however, on Friday morning this garage from Southampton called and said they wanted to buy the car, so J biked home from work, cleaned the car a bit before they arrived and then manage to sell the car to them, we got quite a good price and it was super easy, almost too easy maybe but as their was a couple of minor faults (crack in the back bumper, no instruction manual etc) we had a feeling it would be hard to sell to a private person. And of course the price we advertised the car for is a really tricky price, a bit too much for a private person to just pay without any guarantees so all in all, we are very happy with the sale, although I have walked around the whole day thinking that I would have liked to have driven somewhere today, typical.. the grass is greener and all that! On top of selling the car we also noticed that our timer on the hot water tank was broken in the morning, our landlord was on his way to holiday so we had to call another electrician who could come out, and while trying to arrange that I also went to Sing and sign with Axmax, and had lunch with R. I was sooo tired in the evening ha ha, can't imagine how it will feel when I go back to (a) work. So unfortunately I didn't write about the Friday theme, and to be honest, I haven't had any inspiration lately. Maybe next week, in the mean time I will just read the other Friday bloggers blogs : )

Super duper bra blogg!

Just saw that this blog is back online again (prob have been for a while but I have missed it!)

http://www.fyranyanseravrosa.blogspot.com/

It's in Swedish, which is a shame as it is super duper good!

Play and Auto Trader

And then it's Friday tomorrow again, this week has gone super quick, Axel is still snotty poor thing but sleeps well in the night so can't complain really. We went to our new friend F today for a play date, was really nice to see where they lived and for Axel to play with other toys, he is really getting fed up with the toys we have which I admit is mostly for smaller babies, so we might have to invest in some new toys for older babies on the weekend : )
J is putting in an ad on Auto trader to sell our car and being really irritated, don't think either of us want to sell the car, but it's too expensive and as we are only using it for leisure we simply can not justify keeping it, it's a bit upsetting but I think we will feel relieved when it's sold and we have paid it off (which will take a while as it's hard to sell cars at the mo so we will have to sell it for a bit less than it's worth arrrggg).. enought ranting from me, now I'm gonna forget about that and move on and just be happy that we had the car for as long as we did and it was great when J took his driving licence to practice and then to practice some more when he passed his test and we live so central we don't really need it!


- Axel checking our the baby walker we found outside a charity shop, we felt that we deserved some charity ourselves so we took it home (and washed it of course). He don't really want to hold it yet, but like prodding it with his little finger bless him, and I will return it to the charity shop when he can walk unaided : )
- Axel with Joda ears (with a little help from his dad!) and with lemons which was fun, and even more fun when J juggle them