the end of the day

The reason E woke up after an hour was a dirty diaper. So that's understandable. She did not go back to sleep after I changed her, but she did stay in her crib for another hour. So that was pretty good.

She's in bed now, and I pray that she will go to sleep soon and have a great night and hopefully wake up around 8am tomorrow, rested and ready for a new day and some grocery shopping.

Countdown... 4 days (until my mom gets here).

Not a good day

We went to Lowes and Home Depot today. E really hates hardware stores. I try snacks, drink, toys, pacifier, mirrors... nothing works. She screams almost the entire time were there. She's not just cranky, she screaming at the top of her lungs. Not easy to make decisions then.

She's been napping for an hour now and I can hear her talking in her room. She usually sleeps for 2½-3 hours. This is not a good day. Oh, Lord, give me strength...

positive

I read something this morning that got me thinking. What kind of impact do I have on other people? Am I primarily positive or negative?

The mouth of the righteous is a well of life.
Proverbs 10:11

So if things are right with God deep inside then my words should be encouraging, they should nourish and refresh.
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If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours! =)

am/pm

AM
This whole paint picking thing has not been going that well, so I went over to S since she knows alot about these things and I got some really good tips and ideas. I still have a few decisions to make, but I feel like I can do this now.

PM
We were out of milk so we went to Stewarts to pick some up. When we got out of there it was pouring down. I had a raincover for the stroller so E was fine but I got soaked! Oh, well. It's just water... "vatten, vatten, bara vanligt vatten".

R U sure?

Så ofta när jag genomgår prövningar så vill jag att de skall gå över snabbt. Men tänk på Josef i Egypten. Det började redan före Egypten med hans bröder och det varade i flera år. Jämfört med vad han gick igenom så är mina prövningar små.

I read a survey on someones MS today and one question was: How long do you think you will live?
The answer given was: Hopefully forever.
That is so sad. I can't imagine not being 100% sure about going to Heaven. I pray that I will get an opportunity to talk to her and let her know that there is a way to be sure. It's not about living a good life and doing good things and hope that the good in your life will outweigh the bad stuff. And if it does you will go to Heaven. It's about accepting that you do things wrong from time to time, that you can't make it to Heaven on your own. That you need Jesus, because He is the son of God and He can forgive you. All you have to do is believe this. Yes, it is that simple.

Well, someone is waking up. It time to vacuum and do laundry. And figure out something for dinner. I just wish I knew who's going to eat here tonight.

midsommar

jag vill också fira midsommar, med dans kring midsommarstången, blommor i håret och svenska jordgubbar.

decisions, decisions

It's not good to be Swedish when there are so many decisions to be made... I was looking for a ceiling fan in either an antique nickel finish or an aged bronze. I found both. For about $50. So which one do I want? And don't even get me started on paint colors for the walls. I got a giant color swatch (sp?) to look at and that's just to many options. I thought I had it all figured out until I realized that I had picked the same color for all the rooms and I had to start over.

E just woke up. Another 3 hour nap. She's such a good napper. I love it!

Well, it's time to pick up a pizza for the guys.

Ceiling Fan, Backyard & Steps

I can't find a ceiling fan I like. Well, there are the specialty stores where you can mix and match until you get what you want, but I'm not paying "$300 and up". No way!

I took E to our new backyard today. She loved it. She kept climbing the steps to the pool. Steps are her new favorite. (I let her walk on the sidewalk on our way home from the park the other day, but she kept going up to all the houses to climb their steps so I had to put her back in the stroller.) Anyways... It was almost naptime so I put her in the car to go home and she cried b/c she wanted to stay. I can't wait to move so we can go out there everyday. I try to take her to the park or playground everyday now, but it's not like we spend half the day there, so when we get back home she walks up to the window and just stands there and looks out. She loves being outside.

kids-talk

As I was packing today I found a piece of paper from my first year at the daycare. I used to write down some of the funny things the kids said so I could share it with their parents. And now I can share it here on my blog. (The names are fictional, of course.)

ADAM: "Miss Swamerica, you're getting better at coloring by every minute."

Adam and Bo are playing a boardgame. Bo wins.
ADAM: "Bo beat me up."

CARL: (to me) "You should be in my family because it's a nice family."

ADAM: "Girls never toot. Only girls can burp."
BO: "Miss Swamerica never toots."

DANIEL: "This is the biggest, this is the smallest and this is the mediumest."

ERIC: (tries to comfort me in the wintertime) "Once you get use to the snow it'll be fine."
(the other teachers found this very funny considering I grew up in Sweden.)

ERIC: "I'm actually getting kind of confused."

ADAM: "Excuse me, I can't get this open."
MISS FIONA: (tries to teach him how to ask for help) "Can you help me, please?"
ADAM: "Sure!"

ERIC: (playing cards) "Do you wonder what I've got up my sleeves?"

BO: "Did Daniel leave?"
ME: "Yes, his grandma picked him up."
GEORGE: "His beautiful grandma!"

Hannah and Ivy are repeating a line from a movie, over and over again.
ADAM: "Can you stop saying that?! It's getting on my nerves."

I'm looking for a sharpie that I alway keep in my purse. I can't find it.
ME: "It must be in my other purse."
ERIC: "How many purses do you have? My mom has two."

Jenny and Daniel are talking.
JENNY: "That's funny!"
DANIEL: "I know. I crack people up all the time."
JENNY: "Crack me up!"
DANIEL: "I don't feel like it right now."

Eric and George are playing.
ERIC: "That's not fair."
GEORGE: "Life isn't always fair."
ERIC: "Well, it should be!"

KEN: "Bo and Ivy sitting in a tree, H-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
MISS LAURA: What does that spell?"
KEN: "Hugging!"

On her way out Miss Laura takes out the garbage.
GEORGE: "She took out the trash!"
KEN: "Yeah! That's what teachers do."
GEORGE: "Eww!"
(Yeah, that's why I spent 5 years in college. To take out garbage.)

Miss Maggie is reading a book about monsters. The book says "Never enter a subway with teeth."
IVY: "I want subway for lunch."

ERIC: "I'm a little sick today. I have the sneeze, the cough and the boogers."

MISS MAGGIE: "Where did you get a haircut? At the mall?
ADAM: "No, at a short store."

Miss Fiona and Eric began playing Tic Tac Toe.
ERIC: "Are you going to go easy on me or something?"

I'm looking through a cookbook for children. (This was before I had my daughter.)
ME: "I love this book. I want it and I want children."
GEORGE: "You do have kids. You have us."

Just STOP!!!!!!

Stop being so negative. Your "worst case scenario"-attitude is making us all depressed.

breakfast

Mmmm... äter knäckebröd med ost och gurka och dricker nyponsoppa. That's what I call breakfast!

Happy Father's Day!

YUCK!!!

My daughter was chewing on something.
ME: Did you give her something to eat?
HUBBY: No.
So I stick my finger in her little mouth and pull out something neither one of us can identify. Then we watch our little girl walk over to the garbage can, lift the lid up and stick her little arm down into it. YUCK!!!!!!!! Is that where she got her little "snack" from? Time to tape that lid shut.

Family hug

Oh, I've got to write this down. It's the cutest thing and it happened during one of our family hugs. So my husband and I are both holding our daughter and we're all hugging and then we take turns kissing her and I give my husband a kiss. Then we both give her another kiss. Then the cute stuff happened. She put one hand behind my head and one behind my husbands, pushing our heads together so we could kiss again. It was so sweet!

I went to the most amazing baby shower today. All the details, from the invitation to the decorations, the cake and the people in costumes, oh, and the shirts made especially for the new mommy and daddy we're just awesome. We weren't allowed to wrap our gifts but had to present them in a nice way. If I can figure out how to do it, I will post a picture of my gift.

I did it! Can you guess the theme of the shower?

Tomorrow is Father's day and I know what I want to get for my husband, but I just can't make up my mind about the final choice. Hmm...

Can I get more days in June, please...

There is just so much to do this month. We are trying to get the house all fixed up so we can move in, but it's June... weddings, showers, rehearsals ... they are great things, but they take up precious time too.

My daughter's fever finally broke, but now she has a really nasty cough and needs bubbles every 4 hours. (Bubbles the fish = the nebulizer mask)

"So you think you can dance" are down to their final 20. Yes, I do watch that show and I really like it. Well, on Wednesdays anyways. They drag it out on Thursdays though so I'm blogging now while I wait to see who gets kicked off.

Fathers day is coming up. The American one. My dad has to wait until November. But my husband and my father-in-law will be celebrated in a couple of days. The question is... what will we do this year?

the written word...

I had an idea. I emailed it to someone. And I just read what they wrote back to me. Somehow they misunderstood things and got offended. I think. The written word can really mess things up sometimes. So frustrating! You can't hear someones tone of voice when you read what they write.

We had no power this morning. It was HOT! and sticky. But we went over to a friends house so my daughter could get her medicine. We should get a nebulizer that takes batteries. But it was nice to hang out in a cool house. Thanks to my friend for letting us stop by!

We're home now and our A/Cs are on high. This place should be cooler in a little bit.

I should probably grab a bite to eat. I only had a pop tart for breakfast. I didn't want to mess around in the fridge too much when the power was out. Pop tarts aren't very good for breakfast. It's like eating a cookie. But then again I'm sure some people eat cookies for breakfast in this country.

Filmjölk, musli, mackor med ost, prickig korv, leverpastej, ett glas juice. Mmm. That's what I want!!!

my hero

He went to work with a slight fever, even though I thought he should have staid home and rested. He said he was already taking 3 day off this week to work on the house so he had to go in. So he went to work and worked all day long.
Since we're moving soon we only installed one AC in our apartment, hoping that it would be enough. But it's been running on high all day long and it was still 80 degrees in here at the end of the day. And with our daughter being sick too (103.5!) I figured we had to do something about that. So he went out and got a better AC, moved the one we have to one of the bedrooms, and put the new one in the livingroom. It's now almost 10 o'clock at night and he just sat down to eat his dinner. He has been working all day long with a fever and still did not complain at all about tonight. In fact, when I thanked him he just smiled and said "of course".
My husband is truly my hero!

what am I doing?

Like I'm not already spending too much time in front of the computer... now I've decided to start blogging. Maybe not my wisest decision, hmm.

I don't even know what to write about. I had so much to say before I signed up and now I don't know. There is just so much craziness going on right now that God is definitely showing me that I'm not in control - He is. And that is so good to know. It makes me feel safe and taken care of.