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20 augusti 2008

Hopplala vad det var daligt med uppdateringar har...

Vi ar sjuka, hela familjen. Feber, snor och hosta sa det star harliga till for oss alla tre. Inte sa kul. Tova vill inte sova pa natterna, sa jag har suttit uppe med henne flera timmar varenda natt. Precis nar vi hade fatt hennes "sova sjalv rutin" att funka. Suck. Sa vi ar trotta och sura ocksa, allihop... :) Kelly har jobbat fastan han ocksa ar sjuk, han maste ju det i vart lage.

Vad galler huset har vi en kopare, vi har till och med ett kontrakt! MEN - det finstilta ar att de maste forstas salja sitt hus for att kunna kopa vart... Forsta helgen i september ar det auktion pa deras hus, sa hall tummarna for att de saljer!!! I sana fall flyttar vi den 29 september. Vart vet ingen...

:)

Graviditeten ar fortfarande ingen hojdare, men nu ar jag ju nastan halvvags...

Jag har sokt ett deltidsjobb inom rekryteringsbranschen. Det ar ett tremanadersvikariat, sa det skulle passa perfekt. Jag hoppas att jag i alla fall far komma pa en intervju!!!

Har kommer ett (inte sa snyggt, men i alla fall) foto pa mig och magen i vecka 17. Ocksa ett foto pa en sjuk och grinig Tova. Hall till godo...

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13 & 14 augusti 2008

Fotot fran i onsdags ar en speciell halsning till Tovas Gudmor!

Dagens bild visar vart harliga vader. Aska, blast, regn, regn, regn och HAGEL!!!! Sen blev det plotsligt stralande sol och typ 20 grader varmt pa eftermiddan. Eh...

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12 augusti 2008 - Tova 23 man

So we're home. Back in NZ, where the rain has been pooring down the last couple of days... :)

The trip home was not pleasant, and getting out of jet lag has been hard for both Tova and me, but we're getting there.

For you non Swedish speaking people, I'll soon be posting on my other blog. This week, I promise!!!

:)

I will go back to Swedish on this one. Thank you for tagging along during our trip!!!
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Japp, vi ar hemma. Det var en mycket jobbig hemresa... Tova var inte alls intresserad av att sova pa planet. Dessutom var jag installd pa 8 timmars vantetid i Bankok, men hade last fel pa min resplan. Det var 12 timmars vantetid!!! Som gradde pa moset anlande vi tidigt och akte sent. Forstas... Jag hade tur och kunde hyra ett rum pa flygplatsen, sa vi fick dusha, och Tova sov nagra timmar.

Jag ska inte ga in pa nagra detaljer, det ar huvudet for trott for, men flygresorna var rena mardrommen. Jag ar glad att de ar over.

Val hemma har det varit jattekrangligt att ordna till sovrutinerna, forstas. Med tanke pa att Tova inte somnat sjalv pa typ 9 veckor, visste jag att det skulle bli svart att fa till det. Men, vi ar pa god vag. Nu somnar hon i sin egna sang, sa lange jag sitter bredvid en stund. Hon har vaknat ungefar samma tid pa natten, och behovt trost. Men istallet for att skrika tills jag inte orkar lyssna langre, har hon de senaste tva natterna skrikit i ngn minut innan hon somnat om, och det ar ett jattestort framsteg! De forsta natterna kampade hon ju forstas med jet lag, precis som jag!

Hon har fragat frekvent efter all familjemedlemmar, och nya kompisar, men det var ju vantat. Tack och lov har det gatt supperenkelt for henne att vanja sig vid pappa. Han fick puss och kram direkt pa flygplatsen, och sen har det varit han som statt hogst i kurs nar det galler att leka!!! Skont for mamma, att fa lite andrum... :) De forsta dagarna fick hon lite panik sa fort jag lamnade rummet, men nu har hon lugnat sig med det ocksa. Idag borjade hon pa dagis igen, och hon blev inte ens ledsen nar jag lamnade henne! Hur coolt ar inte det?

Sjalv mar jag val sadar... Var hos barnmorskan igar, och det visade sig att de flesta av mina varden ar helt at skogen. Typiskt... Foglossningen ar dessutom jattejobbig. Barnmorskan beordrade vila, och det kanns deppigt... I 5 manader eller? Va?

Hur som haver, det borjar gora lite ont i hjarnan nu, ar fortfarande lite jetlagad tror jag...

Nedan ett foto fran idag, Tova ar 23 manader idag. Hurra!

:)

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12 weeks

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2 July 2008 - SUN!!!

The sun is back! It has been two beautiful sunny and hot days, and tomorrow will be as well it seems. Very nice! We've been playing outside with Tova's cousins and trying out the local cafés.

The sleeping is still an issue, and I'm sooooo tired all the time. Luckily i'm on holiday, so I don't have to organise world peace or anything. I would just love a whole night's sleep...

Not much else really, to report. Some photos of Tova below!!!

:)

Playing in cousin "J's" sandpit

Just chillin'

Big girl eating an apple on her own!!!

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27 June 2008 - some photos

Not much to report, sleeping patterns are pretty much the same. :)

Yesterday we took a trip with my friend and her kids to an indoor playground, as it was RAINING. Tova was too little really, but she had fun anyway. Her mother with a HUGE belly came along for a slide ride and some trekking around the maze. The photos are not that great, but you'll get an idea of what we did... Tova had a blast anyway, and slept quite well that night!!

Tomorrow we're going to my aunties 50th birthday party, so there will be a lot of catching up with relatives I haven't seen for a long, long, long time. Then next week, we're hoping for sun...

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24 June 2008

A new report from me, the most tired mum in the world. Possibly. At least I'm up there on the top 50 list. Promise.

Tova just won't sleep in her own bed, I'm trying hard, but I 'm not getting more than 3 hours of sleep per night. I'm trying hard to get her all tired out during the day, running around outside, visiting my friends with kids, but she's just not settling down. Sure. She's asleep most of the night, but wakes up as soon as I try to put her back in her cot. I guess she's just not feeling at home, and that's fair enough. It just gets harder all day with a grumpy mum and a clingy child...

Anyway, we're having fun most of the time... :) We've been hanging out with my sister and her kids a lot, and also with my other sister who have no kids. It's awesome to be around family of course, it's like... you know... Being home!

Today I visited one of my best friends since way back. She is the mother of my Godson, and also heavily pregnant. I will be around for the birth, which is so awesome!

Tomorrow we will visit my nana and granddad - 84 this year.

I'm also hoping the sun will come back. They had about 30 degrees above a few weeks ago, but I haven'seen anything like that since I got here!!!! I wanna hang out on the beach!!! ('cause I never do THAT in NZ...)

Anyway, before I show you some photos, I'd like to make an announcement...

I'm pregnant!!! If everything goes to plan, there will be a new Maddock baby in mid - January 2009!! We're very surprised, but of course enormously happy about this!

So, feeling like absolute crap, it makes it even harder with the whole sleeping thing, and the whole clingy Tova thing. But hey. People do it all the time... Luckily I have the blog, where I can offload...

:)

Some Tova photos coming up:

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20 June 2008 - midsummer

So today is midsummer's eve here in Sweden. It's a very BIG thing, a very old tradtition among us Swedes. It has been twisted and changed a little bit during the last decades, but we all celebrate it in some way. Read more here or here if you are interested!!!

Tova and I celebrated with my best friend L, her husband and their gorgeous new baby (4 weeks!!!) in her mothers house. We ate the traditional food and all. I'm telling you. Swedish food is GOOD!!

I've been catching up a lot on the Swedish food that I've been missing in NZ. The other day my youngest sister treated me with Swedish pizza for example!! YUM!!

:)

What else have we been doing since my last post? Well, the weather has been up and down, but we have tried to spend as much time outside as possible. We've been checking out the cows and horses that are walking outside my parents house. We have been hanging out with my sister who have 2 kids, a 3 year old girl and a 1 year old boy. Tova loves her cousins, it's fun to see them jump around together. It's not always easy sharing toys though, but we'll get there.

I've been driving around in an old horrible blue VOLVO (of course). It was a challenge to drive a stick on the right hand side of the road the first day, but I think I'm OK now... I might need a big sign saying "tourist" at the back of the car...

:)

Tova is catching up on the Swedish real fast, I'm very impressed. She's like a little parrot, imitating everyone! So cute... She is still quite unsettled, she won't let me out of her sight, but there has been slight progress. Tonight she even sat on my dad's lap for the first time since they visited NZ in March! Very cool. As long as I was sitting next to them, she was OK...

She keeps asking for her dad, and I think she's a little bit homesick, poor thing...

My little girl seems to be OK at night, as long as she goes to sleep in my bed. It's tricky to get her over to the travel cot without waking her, but if she's REALLY deep asleep, it works. I tell ya, she's a snorer like her dad. I do NOT want her next to my ear if I can help it!!!

:)

Me - I am still struggling. My nasty cough is NOT getting better, and I still wake up in the wee morning hours. Fingers crossed I'll have a wonderful sleep tonight!!

Anyhoo, here are some photos! Love from us!!

Talking to cousin "K"