Midsummer celebrations

This midsummer we had a huge get-together with the swedes on the island. all in all 42 people came to our house - i've never had so many guests all at once. It worked out great 'cause it was a pot-luck setup and everyone lent a helping hand. Still me and Bo were on our feet from dawn till 3 in the morning! have'nt been up that late for years and years. then all sunday we worked hard to get the house back into shape - but it was all worth it - we had a great really, really swedish midsummer in our garden.

Thoughts on ...

Saw this today, thought it was very TRUE.

Goto give this some thoughts and continue the process of creating myself. Have some ideas for the fall but now my thoughts are moving in the direction of going to Sweden for the summmer. Its only 2,5weeks to go and its going to be excellent to leave the island for a while. We are all really looking forward to seeing the family again and being in our home enviroment. Can't wait to go for a shopping spree in well stocked shops and supermarkets ... I miss that so - this is my 4th year of not good shopping! Aqaba was a desert and Barbados is not top of the charts either and above all so expensive.

Well thats not much said on creating oneself at all. Going to hop into the Jucuzzi and ponder awhile.

Cruel Exams

Unbelievable! My poor 8 year old has to write exams on the year's work. Everyday after a long day at school she has to come home and study for the next day's exam. Surely teachers should be capable of giving their young students their grades on the whole years efforts!!! I feel so bad for my daughter, she should be having free-time after a long day at school - enjoying what she enjoys most - playing, dancing , drawing, writing songs and playing with her sister and friends.
Homework sucks too - whatever is wrong with enjoying one's carefree childhood. At this rate she will be sick and tired of school by the age of 10!

Frogs

Photo for today is frogs. Tessa discovered a little pond at school full of frogs/toads - she was so fascinated/horrified by these creatures hiding under the lily leaves " Mamma jag är lite scared av dessa frogar". swenglish that was.

update from Barbados

Hello if there is anyone out there reading my blogg, you probably dumped my blogg as it has'nt been updated for awhile. but here comes a few lines and some photos too. Update from Barbados - All our dear visitors have left now and we miss everyone, it felt especially empty when Simon left as he spent 2 months with us and felt like part of the family. He was an excellent guest and it was also great that he liked spending time with the kids so they did some cousin bonding. Should add that the whole family were excellent guests, mosts helpful with the routines. Still finding ktichen things in odd places in the kitchen though ...

The weekend was good - did some relaxing, spent time with friends, went to a big childrens birthday bash with clowns, face painting, jumping castles and swimming! The girls no way wanted to go home - having a blast in the pool, had to bribe them with promises of loot bags. On sunday we went for breakfast at Bean and Bagel - see photo below. Enjoyed a short visit to the beach and then went to see Shrek III. We concluded the day with a nice BBQ - all in all a very good day.



Monday morning I was very unorganized, forgot my keys (for the house, car & gates) in Bo's car aswell as the booster seats, it took awhile to get to school and then in the afternoon I locked us out of the house so we spent some time at the mall waiting for Bo to get home with the keys. Goto get more orginized. Good thing though was that got my lazy butt back to the gym and now Im hurting abit here and there.