Yesterday.. Was Lucia Day...

Thanks to a wonderfully generous mother-in-law,I never have to make saffron bread.It's a sweet bread served after dinner.At least that's how we do it in our house.

Here's a picture of her contribution to last nights dinner.It is delish.(she made extra and as you can tell in the other photo I added kladdkaka and jeweled candy cookies to the dessert choices to make sure there were leftovers) Kidding...weeeell...may...be....not...

For dinner I made the coconut milk,Thai veggie and pork soup my family loves and served it w/warm baguettes. With the freezing temps we've had lately, soup seemed to be just what the doctor ordered.

ONE MORE WEEK,and both kids will officially begin their Christmas break.YAY!
Which means S will spend longer than 3 days with us since he started Uni.
We are all excited about Christmas but at the same time it's bittersweet.Because my Mom will NOT be joining us this year.She has planted her little rambling feet at home this holiday season and said everyone is welcome to visit her.She hasn't been home for Christmas in the last 4 years..We don't blame her for wanting to be in her own home for the holidays, we will miss her terribly..

Peace Peeps,
Mimi

Checking in....

I have finals this week and well my mind has been elsewhere.

I have two test today and I'm done.YAY! After that, I can relax..No wait..I seem to be forgetting something.

Ohhh yeah, CHRISTMAS is just around the corner....

Saturday Morning Blog.

It has been brought to my attention that I've missed a couple days posting.

Sorry Ms.B I will "try" and do better.

I had quite a few new pictures I wanted to add here and was diligently trying to do so yesterday, but for some reason they all disappeared.I use Picasa2 to handle my downloading and it somehow hid my file ;I can't find it anywhere!!!!!!!!

I could walk you through each picture. naaahh!

Things have been quite and normal this past week and for that I am thankful.

Chloe has become so clingy lately..I can't make a move without her right under my feet.
She has defiantly figured out her place in the family.She thinks she is little sis.
She knows I'm momma and P is daddy ;she knows just how far she can push us.
With E she has no boundaries.I can tell her NOT to go up the stairs and she listens.When E tells her, she runs at her, barks(as to say come on lets go) and runs directly up to E's room.
I'm happy to report all that mumbo jumbo about Hypoallergenic dogs seems to be TRUE..At least,in our case it is.E's had no noticeable allergy symptoms from being with Chloe.I'll give half credit to the hypo-allergy mumbo jumbo and half to her allergy meds.

Sorry for the short post but I have a busy day ahead of me.

Later Gaters,
Mimi

Scrambled Thoughts.

No classes for me today.So I'm home fighting a cold .

Guess what? It's SNOWING!!!Do not insert sarcasm.I don't hate the snow..Its just been so gloomy lately..My saving grace are those gorgeous Advent Lights.
The sun rises errr...lightens the skies around 9ish and begins to set around 2 ish. (By 3 it's pitch dark)But all the beautiful lights in everyones windows, coupled with the snow that has been falling makes the dark seem magical. I know, I sound all whimsical. I'm not!I want to find the "good" with it all.

I really dislike when people complain about everything.In the summer it's to hot, the midnight sun is too bright, we need a cool dark place.Can't wait for winter.Then winter arrives and it's to cold ,it's too dark we need sunshine..I just think people should put more of an effort in trying to find the "good" in things.Instead of wallowing in the bad.

Ok,enough of that!

I have recently taught myself(with a little help from a very smart guy) about rar. files and avi files.

Now there's the new(at least to me) xvid files, I now have to try and figure out..Blahhhh...

I was in the mood for hot chocolate and the only milk we had in the frig was E's lactose-free milk and P's A-fil..I decided to go with E's and just make regular hot chocolate.I didn't hate it..
Not as good as my favorite Hot White Chocolate, but not bad.

E has to go to the Health and Wellness center tomorrow for a swimming class.The reason she goes there instead of the regular community center swimming pool is due to her sensitivity to chlorine.They have VERY low concentration of it there and she has medicine she takes before she gets in.It's NOT something she wants to do.Its a requirement for all children in the Swedish school system.She just hates(as she sees it) being different.

Peace out my peeps!

Missing my Momma...

Sammy's home who has time to blog..haha

I miss my momma!

With all this snow we've been getting lately, I just had to warm myself up by adding this picture from our summer vacation.
The sign is located at the Russian-Finnish border..Momma insisted(hahaha) we take her there.From our cabin it was only suppose to take 2 hours BUUUUT 5 hours and 1 reindeer burger later we FINALLY made it to the border.