Christmas decorating

Frida next to the christmas tree . Notice how we've put a chair
in front of the tree so that Norah can't reach to destroy anything : )


As always the weekend just fly by. We've decorated and made the house christmas like and also bought almost all the christmas presents this weekend. So that feels good. You always have the little things to buy right before christmas anyway but the big stuff are ready now. Woo hoo I've never been this organized ! Since we have a fake tree we've already put that up as well. Might as well enjoy it for as long as possible. Lights up the house nice too. I can't believe how early it gets dark now. Very depressing. I light candles every chance I get.
Just came back from watching Daniel play hockey. Frida was running around with her cousin so I didn't see much of her.
Norah had already gone to bed so I didn't get a chance to say good night but I'm sure she'll wake up at least 2 or 3 times tonight so I'll get my chance then.
She must be going through some period of not sleeping good right now. I hope it will stop soon 'casue I need a good night sleep.

Disco and baby stuff

Somebody is trying to eat by her self : )

Frida and Em on their way to their first disco.

This was as far as I was allowed to follow them.

I just put Norah down for a nap. Normally she tosses around and cry a little when I walk out of the room and I have to go in there 3 or 4 times before she decides that she might as well sleep for a bit. But today I put her down and she closed her eyes and fell asleep the minute her head touched the pillow. Very strange and unusual but nice. So now I have a few minutes to write before I have to start making lunch.
Frida went to her first disco on Friday night. She was very excited and had a great time. I asked her if she danced much but buying candy had been more fun : ) I asked if she saw any cute boys but she said she hadn't noticed. Funny, I remember running after boys very early : ) She says she's not ready for that yet . She's so funny.
J is in Norway today and tomorrow so I'm all by my self again. Good thing we have a big dog for protection, makes me feel safe.

Spinning

Went to the gym for a spinning class last night. Haven't done that for some time now.
There was a new instructor and my god was she a screamer ! I wanted to scream back at her shut up !!!! I wonder if she screams like that
anywhere else?
But come to think of it when you're sitting there on the bike and you are so tired that you wanna puke and just get off the bike
you hear her scream - come on ! Milk the last bit of energy out ! Hang in there ! It actually works and you don't wanna be a quitter no matter how much you want that screaming bitch in front of you to shut up right at that moment. You keep going ....and you wake up the next day and think man
my arse hurt like hell today! Every time I sit down I just wanna scream. Good thing the kids keep me up on my feet pretty much all day : )

My weekend

Linda came home for a visit this weekend so we gathered the girls and men( for a change )
and had lunch together on saturday. It's always fun to chit chat about everything new.
There are kids running around everywhere and more on the way so pretty soon I guess we'll have to rent
a place to meet : ) Linda's belly is growing and she's half way through her pregnancy now. I think it's a girl but
I'm normally wrong so it's probably a boy. We'll see in about 20 weeks : )

Yesterday we went to J's brothers house and he helped J change to winter tires. Then we played guitar hero Rock band. Oh man, I'm like a kid when those games come out. It's so much fun !!!! Frida tried the drums but realized singing is more for her : ) It's a lot harder then it looks to play the drums. I've played real drums when I was younger and that's almost easier. I think we need to have a guitar hero party soon !!! Who's on ?

Horse pictures as promised

Promised pictures from Fridas horseback riding. Unfortunately I took some really crappie ones but at least you can see Frida on a horse : )
It's her cousin Lisa who is walking next to her. She's been riding since she was really small so she helps Frida on her lessons and afterwards taking care of the horse. I'm very thankful for that !!!

I hurt so bad .....

Went to the gym for the first time in a very long time yesterday.
My god do I hurt today ! It keeps getting worse by the hour too !
I really don't want to know how I'll feel tomorrow when I'm suppose to work out again.
Oh well it's the same every time but after a while you're back in the game and fit for fight.
Tuesday and "horse day " for Frida. I'm slowly getting more and more relaxed around the horses.
Frida is in heaven every tuesday, she just loves it! I'll try to take some pictures today that I can put on the blog.

All by myself

Just finished watching Idol as usual on Fridays. It was a rock theme this week and as always
Kevin rocked it !!! I can't see anyone else be the final winner !
Haven't had much time to blog this week. J is in Scotland till Sunday so I'm busy from early morning till late night.
It's tough being alone with the kids and the dog. When the kids go to bed I've been dead tired.
Norah is doing a lot better now. The arm is healing very well. She's starting to loose the damaged skin now and you can see
healthy skin underneath. I'm so glad she's ok again.
Frida is going to a birthday party tomorrow with a "Tingeling" theme, not sure if she's called tinkerbelle or something in english.
Everyone is going to dress up as either Tingeling or a princess. She's very excited as you can imagine a 7 year old girl would be.
Well I'm off to bed now to watch a bit of Tv before drifting off to sleep....sleep tight everyone

Norah's been in hospital

Saturday morning I was making breakfast and put my newly made teacup on the kitchen counter while making sandwiches. Somehow God knows how Norah reached up there and pored the whole cup of hot tea all over her arm. She was screaming like crazy and I pretty much freaked out. Luckily J was very calm and put her in the shower with cold water before we took her to the ER. They looked at the arm and sent us to the hospital in Örebro instead. They thought it looked like second degree burn so we had to stay over the weekend to keep and eye on her. She also needed some extra fluid in her body so she got that through a sond( don't know the english word ) in her nose. I stayed the 2 nights with her and she was so brave the whole time even though it must have hurt like hell. Yesterday a plastic surgeon looked at the arm and luckily it was much better then they thought from the start. It was only second degree burn on her elbow and the rest of the arm and hand was first degree so that will heal by itself in a few weeks time. I was so happy to hear that 'cause I've been feeling so guilty over this the whole weekend. Why did I put the tea cup there and why didn't I see that she reached up there and so on...although I know these things happen so fast , you always wanna protect your kids from everything bad. She was very happy to come home again and she's playing with her toys and seems to be doing fine. We have to give her painkillers of course every 6 hours so she wont be in pain and we need to get the elbow checked out every other day to make sure she's not getting an infection but if everything goes well she should be healed ok in a few weeks time.