My 1,000 post

On Monday January 20, 2014, I decide to start a blog (my first blog entry can be seen here). I didn't even care if anyone ever read it. It was started to chronicle our lives for us and our families/friends far and near. It was a way of remembering what we did during the day to day. Now, it allows me to go back and have a visit with who we were and what we did over these years. When I started, the boys were all super excited to see themselves online... now, not so much 😉 They were so small and we did so much together. Now, as they grow older, the family outings are being replaced with their own activities, interests and friends  (which usually don't include Andreas and me). I totally understand that... it is life. When I started writing here, Alexander was 9, Nicklas 7 and Oliver 3. Now Alexander is 15 (going on 16), Nicklas is 13 and Oliver will soon be 10. These pages contain their growing up and I love that.

I also love that I have actually met online friends through these pages. Some have come and gone but some have stuck around and become a part of my life. I feel blessed!

At the start, I tried to write every day. It went well for the first year-ish but turned out to be too much of a challenge. There were other times that I really had nothing to say so I didn't write at all. Considering that I was always really crappy at keeping journals and diaries, I am impressed that the blog is still going 😉 Happy 1,000 post birthday, blog! Let's hear it for the next 1,000 posts. I hope that you will continue to join me for a little bit of my day to day xox

Helping out

In respect of all the work that our front line workers are doing during these times, I put our names in to volunteer to do our bit in the community. We got called in today to deliver groceries to people who could not leave their houses. The plan was that Alexander and Nicklas will take turns on each shift. Today was Nicklas' turn and he had such a good time that he even offered to go next time as well. The people were so friendly and happy to get their food... it made us both feel good about helping out... the least we can do.

If anyone reading this needs a hand with groceries (local... as much as I would like to do international deliveries it is not possible right now 😉), let me know in real life and I am happy to take some groceries to you as well xox

Questions

These strange days result in a lot of questions... deep, meaningful questions: when will this be over? When can we resume our normal life again? When will the curve be "flattened"? How will we know when it has been "flattened"? Are my loved ones safe? Some people ask themselves about the meaning of their lives and what higher being do they believe in.... I find myself asking myself very important questions such as: how the heck can my dishwasher always need emptying? Why is the pantry empty already? Where are all my dishes? Who forgot to change the toilet paper roll (couldn't resist putting that one in 😉)? How on earth can they use up so much milk? Oh yes, and the famous one: do they need to fight ALL the time? 😉

Sending socially responsible hugs to you all xox

Yes, dog, it appears that we need to unload the dishwasher... again... ;)

Happy Easter!

I know this post is a day late but we spent all day yesterday in the garden, getting everything ready for our summer in our backyard ;) We are accepting that our summer plans to Spain are probably out the window ;) so we will make the best of what we have here. Trampoline (aka cage fighting ring) will be put up next weekend after the remaining snow melts and the mud pit dries up a bit more.

This was the first year that we didn't colour eggs with the boys. Oliver was the only one who was kind of into it but, after asking if he really wanted to do it, he confessed to be more interested in eating chocolates so the Easter bunny delivered on that point ;)

Hope you all had a good Easter weekend, filled with chocolate... and a bunny who got an exemption from the quarantine rules ;)

Hope

Not sure where the rainbow in the window started or how far this extends in the world (maybe it is local?) but people here put rainbows in their windows to provide comfort and remind others that we will be OK. Andreas heard about this and put our resident artist on the task. Anyway, we now have our lovely window rainbow up, made with love and good wishes. Andreas told me that I should also put up a bottle of wine in the window too... some of my fellow mothers might appreciate that one as well ;)

Sending love and rainbows (and wine) to you all xox