Easter...

We have been busy preparing for Easter!

Sommar!

Today, very blue...

We had a lovely summery day today, with a couple of showers, but hey this is England… ;)
We just had a calm Saturday with a long walk and a play in the park…
Jerry is still in Germany and comes home on Monday, we really miss him now…

Kids with scooters and flowers!

Funny

funny "mini" we saw outside the school, just had to take a picture...

Love it..

Spring is here!

These passed days have been just like heaven! The weather is nice and we are having around 15C+ at least!!!
So we have been doing some balcony “gardening” as you can see. We planted strawberries, wild strawberries, tomatoes, herbs, and bell peppers. It has been really fun, and the kids are so exited!

Now Jerry is in Germany, so I’m the only one in charge of the house for now! It’s a bit lonely but much more stress free.

Kids miss him to bits already...

Vaccination

My sweetheart is sleeping on the sofa. He got his Swine flu vaccine yesterday and at first he was fine, but in the night he got fever and still has.

I gave him medicine but he is just so tired now…
Hate to see them sick…

Ikea visit

Yesterday we went to Ikea, bought a square grill pan, Billy bookshelf for the kid’s room and some other bits and pieces…
And of course we had a nice plate of Swedish meatballs, potato, cream souse and lovely lingonberry jam! Patricia had dill-cured salmon and new potatoes, and maxi had meatballs and fries...
As we left we passed the Swedish shop, but because they were renovating the shop we couldent buy many things, we just got marabou daim, kanelsnackor and a beer.

Then we went home to assemble the bookshelf, to our horror the back panel was broken! We discovered it after we almost finished, so we just left it like that. I’m going to call and see if we can get a new one later…

Finally it feels like we are getting some order in the children’s room. So I’m very pleased with that, now its just some wall shelf and minor things left to buy…
(Wish I could throw away the Barbie castle, it’s just in the way…)

The Table

It was a warm afternoon so the kids could finally enjoy playing with the new table in the balcony. Would love a big green garden but have to make the most with what we have…
Anyhow it was great fun, and it didn’t take long until there was a mix of wet sand literally everywhere, and I have to restrain my self from not going crazy (I don’t like when its messy) because its no use anyway. I have learnt that its better if they mess it up anyhow they want until they are finished and then clean up the mess…
But I realised how hard it is for me to smile and relax (without getting a heart attack) as they start dirtying everywhere…
Hmm, maybe I am a control freak.

Today’s efforts...

I have been such a good girl today! After dropping Patricia in school I came home, did some cleaning and made lunch. Then off to drop Maxi in school as usual but then walked all the way to Mitcham to buy a sand and water table for the balcony, I made it home to drop it off before I had to pick up the kids. Then we walked to Wimbledon Centre Court to buy the sand for the table, and dropped of a bag of children’s clothes to the charity shop for cancer research.
My legs are aching and my back is killing me, well I’m NOT used to walking that much. But I’m pleased with my efforts today. And kids are delighted with the table!

We had a yummy Chilli con Carne today and some veggies and hummus to wrap up the evening…

A hot break

After being stressed out and on edge about my relatives in Chile we have heard that almost everyone are ok, except material damage of course.

Today we had a really nice and warm day, which is exactly what I needed!
Went to buy a couple of things and then we enjoyed some ice cream in the balcony, then we decided to go and buy seeds, mini green house and start planting! And the kids had great fun! Of course I forgot to take pics of that, but will definitely keep our plants progress posted! We bought mini tomato and wild strawberry seeds!
Hope they survive (I don’t have green fingers!) kids would be so disappointed if it didn’t.