It's about -10 degrees outside. And indoors, it's not much warmer... There has been some problem with the system so the house is freezing!!! Michelle is wearing pantyhose AND pants over them! She's never needed to before! But some guy came over a few hours ago and the system is now running as it should. But I big three floor house takes a while before the heat goes up. So... Untill then my toes are like 10 ice cubes! But there is a cozy upside with this... The fireplace is so nice! Sitting next to it, hearing the fire crackle... So nice!

Today Kbebat is on the menu! My mom is preparing them at this moment. Yummy!

I miss Aphram... I don't know if Michelle cares at all... That must be a strange feeling... Will she miss me when I go back to work? Will she notice that I'm not htere and Aphram is there instead? Or will it just be "Oh... Are you then one I'm gonna play with today?!" Who knows what's going on inside a babys head... She's sleeping now anyway... Sweet dreams I hope...

Love,

Pascale

So I finally made it fo Falköping. We left home about 6:30 am, made it to the meeting with 30 minutes to spare. Rebecka was a great babysitter while we had our meeting. The meeting went really well, now we'll see what will happen. We left Stochkolm and headed for Falköping. I made a quick stop by my grandma in Skövde (and of course grandma was sad that I don't come over more often, so I a great amount of guilt was also in the menu...). Finally I entered our home and it was after 5 pm. So I've been out all day!

Now, I'm waiting for my favorite meal. Mlokhie! My mom makes the best mlokhie in the world! Hungryyyyyyyyyy!!!!

My thoughts are with the family who lost a mom, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, a friend this morning. I can't imagine the feeling of loosing a family member. Murder is wrong. I thought ex husbands knew that...

Love,

Pascale 

Sunday is here! And the week is now over... My dad, brother and sister came an hour ago. They'll sleep here tonight and then we'll go to Falköping together after tomorrows meeting. So for the moment, my brother is feeding Michelle (ha also just changed her diaper), my sister is surfing around the web, Aphram is surfing the TV box and my dad is looking through the contract for tomorrows meeting.

Yesterdays girls night out was great! Thank you girls! I had brushetta for starter and then I had pasta with crayfish in lobster sauce. It was GREAT!!! I loved the food, but I thought that the concept they had at Vapiano was a bit non customer friendly... I mean it's okay to stand in line to get your food and see the cook do it infront of you. What I thought was wrong is that if you go six friends for dinner there, you'll get your food at different stages... So person nr 1will get his food several minutes before person nr 6. So It's not recommended for big parties, but totally okay for 2-3 persons!

So, now I have to prepare our bag for this week!

Love,

Pascale

   I'm the way out now... I thought I'd upload a picture of tonights outfit!

In the background you can see my curtains I put up earlier today. Red background with white stripes infront.

Love,

Pascale

Saturday and it's 11:46 am. I just finished up in the kitchen and I thought I'll write something here before I start with the dough. Aphram took Michelle with him to run some arrends for me. And after about 10 minutes he calls me asking where he can find the pacifier I keep in the car. I tell him I took it out the other day to boil it. Give her the extra I keep in her bag. "Eeeeeee...?" You forgot the bag too? "Yeah... Should I return back home?" Yes you should... =)

It's not always easy to remember all her stuff she needs... I've several time returned from the parkinglot to pick up something I've forgotten. Her bag weighs more than she does. And she's not tiny.... Also, when we go to grandma (I hate that the English language doesn't differentiate between "moms mother" and "dads mother", I mean TG this time) I have to bring some toys with me too... So there I am, walking with one baby and two bags. This must look quite interesting, specially the days I don't take the stroller with me, since I'm just going up for a few minutes... Maybe parenthood would include a piccolo, that would be just perfect! =)

We decided on home made pizza today! (btw, yesterday I finally made enchiladas...). I'm making my favorite, pepperoni and cheese with some onion! Yummy! (Aphram wants it without the onion... Boring!)

For Swedish speaking people since pepperoni means something else in Swedish: pepperoni = salami och inte den inlagda pepperonin.

What's your favorite home made pizza?

Love,

Pascale

This weekend we celebrate "advent". I don't know if there is such celebration in any other country. Four Sundays before Christmas, we light one candle in a candlebra with four candles. So text Sunday we'll light up two of the four, and so on... So we start decorating for christmas. My self, don't put out my Santas yet, I wait til second week in advent before I decorate completely. So now, I'm ironing my curatins, but I realized I don't have the holder to put the stick on so I have to buy a pair tomorrow.

So this Friday is not a party Friday, so laundry, ironing, decorating and just ordinary home duties are on the to do list!

And Michelle wants to go to sleep... So perhaps I should put her to bed first so I can work with the rest later on. Aphram is taking a nap all ready! Haha... But I'm about to wake him up... Perhaps he can put Michelle to bed...

If I take a glas of wine or a drink while fixing everything, maybe I can do the duties to a mingle party with the decorations... =P

Crazy me...

Love,

Pascale

I'm now back from the cold outside! It's -5 C and it's still snowing! But thank God there is no wind blowing today. The snow is falling straight down.

I took Michelle out for a ride on the sledge, but I didn't even get to the end of the street when I realized she's almost sleeping. So I turned back and but in her stroller instead and went for a walk. I can tell you she didn't like the change of plans! She really likes sitting the sledge! I won of course and now she's sleeping outside in her stroller. She can sleep up till two hours outside!!! It's soooo good!!! Otherwise she's not the kind of baby that enjoys sleeping in the day. She sleeps all night, but not during the day that much, maximum half an hour... So this means I can pick up all her toys now before she can throw them all again on the floor =) What else do I have to do?

And I also need to look for something too cook...

Love,

Pascale

Friday is here! Yippie!!! Eating my breakfast and Michelle is sitting under the glas table looking up at the things above her, trying to get to them...

I don't know what to make for dinner today. I really love cooking and so, but I just can't come up with WHAT to cook... Any ideas? Tomorrow we're going to have a "baking day". Perhaps home made pizza or "lahem b3ajin" or an other dough dish. But what about today?  Don't know... =(

Tomorrow I'm also meeting up with my friends! Vapiano is supposed to have great pasta and everyone have said it's a great restaurant! Pasta white wine, what else could I ask for in a girls night out? But... A problem though, what should I wear? =S Haha that's always my issue =) But I'll fix it...

Now I'm thinking of taking Michelle out on her little sledge =) She's so cute on it! See you later!

Love,

Pascale