Winter portrait

A full day today. With both skiing and visiting our dear friends in Oslo. Now I am happy and ready to work hard until the next weekend.

Weekend

I am enjoying being back home, with my family. Greta grew up so much, she is so kind and funny.

Home sweet home

Good to be back home after three weeks away from the loved ones. They are such a friends now, love them both, and love our home. Happy to be back.

The portrair

The morning portrait of a girl eating her cereal.

The rest of the day were spent putting away the Christmas decorations. Very nive to get rid of it after several weeks. Lots of light and space again. Then we made these little birdie houses while Santiago were sleeping out his last bits of illness, he is fine now and ready for another work week. Then they destroyed the gingerbread house and ate some of its parts.

The little birdie in the house.


Also I would like to mention that I am very proud of how much fruit Greta ate today during the whole day: melon, strawberries, blueberries, plums, oranges, kiwis, and also she finished the dy with a vegetable salad. I am a happy mom!!!



I really enjoyed the family-at-home weekend, now I am ready for a work week and then the 3-weeks work trip to Korea. Yay!!!! Looking forward to it.

Yoghurt ice cream

I rarely use our ice-cream making machine. Because it requires so much space in the freezer. And you have to have it there for many hours before you can make ice-cream. But you know how spontaneous I am. I wake up one morning thinking: "I want ice cream".
This is what happened today. I woke up craving healthy yoghurt ice cream. Because I already have unhealthy gingerbread ice cream in the freezer. So I sat the ice cream making machine in the freezer, did the laundry, cleaned the kitchen, drove to the town to buy something for my trip to Korea, came home, ate lunch, cleaned the kitchen again, and then!!!! Then I mixed lots of youghurt with coconut milk, almond essence, and frozen cherries. Now I am enjoying a wonderful ice cream, and a bit proud of not being so spontaneous today, nut a bit patient and organized )

Have a great weekend.

Happy New Year!

Buy bye the 2012, you were great! Happy New Year everyone!

Christmas holidays and celebrating the New Year

The Christmas holidays went so fast. We had guests many guests during this time. We went to visit some friends, too. We enjoyed the holidays and the good food. We spent time giving, receiving and enjoying the Christmas presents. We baked, played, painted and had fun. We slept strange hours, we slept late and we overslept. We met somebody in the town every time we went out, we wished them Merry Christmas and The happy New Year. We enjoyed playing in the snow before the rain and the warm weather came and washed it all away. It was really really a great family and friends time this year. 

I am supposed to underline the results of this year, right? But I have a million things spinning around in my head. Tomorrow the new year starts. But I am so happy with this one, too. Great things happened, and even greater are planned. Everything turned out great. I am thankful for that. And I am patient. I feel that many things are unfinished this year, but I feel confident that they will turn out just well next year. Having said that, I am happily celebrating the end of this year and the start of the next one. I am ready for whatever is prepared in it. We will see. 

Today Greta helped me to clean the house after the holiday mess. More visiting friends, today too. We visited our friends where we were 4 families, with kids. Delicious food, great time, lots of fun and play, both inside and outside. I am so happy and thankful. 

Anyway, thank you for being with me this year. 

Have a great New Year celebration (if it is not too late!) See you next year.