Monday:

Freja went to her grandmother in the afternoon. Fredrik came directly from work to get her. I went to a parenting meeting at Freja´s kindergarten I didn’t meet Freja before she went to bed.

Tuesday:

Freja gets picked up from kindergarten by her grandmother. I get picked up from work by Fredrik. Then we meet up to celebrate Fredrik’s grandfather’s birthday.

Wednesday:

We all have a day of. I have some things to do and then we will go to Fredrik’s parents to spend some more time with relatives before they go home. In the evening we will have some friends over to watch a movie.

Thursday:

Nothing planed yet.

Friday:

Movie night with friends.

Saturday:

Do some shopping for the apartment and then go to a birthday party.

Sunday:

Birthday party again.

In between I have to clean, wash clothes, paint furniture and work.

I will sleep very well at night all this week…and maybe sometimes on the sofa. ; )

Freja got tired of all our cleaning, painting and organization. She took out about half of her toys and then she lay down to rest for a while in her own private chaos. : )

The weather is getting colder. When I ride my bike to work in the mornings I need to put my gloves on.

It’s windy, yellow leafs are blowing of the trees and lying on the ground.

When the sun is shining I feel like going in to the forest to collect mushrooms.

When it’s raining I feel like staying inside to drink tea and watch a movie.

In other word it’s autumn.

Last week Freja was very tired one morning. To cheer her up I started talking about kindergarten.

- Who do think will meet you at kindergarten this morning?

- Eva!

- Is Eva your favourite teacher?

Freja looks at me like she doesn’t understand the question.

- Maybe you don’t have a favourite teacher?

- Mummy!!

Apparently I’m Frejas favourite. : D

This weekend I did everything that the average Swedish person does. Saturday I went to the recycling centre, shopped for food, watched a movie and ate to much candy. Today I cleaned the apartment, went to IKEA, bought paint at Bauhaus (a big market that sells wood, paint and other things you need to renovate). Then I let Freja watch another movie so I could use my newly bought stuff to make the apartment look nicer. : )

I felt like a real “svenne”. It’s a Swedish word that we use to say that someone is very ordinary. I usually don’t do “svenne” stuff so it felt very strange to do everything at once. It was also very crowded, almost felt like I was in Korea again. : )

But I really needed do all of those things and now we have more order in our apartment. Luckily for Freja and Fredrik I did most of the things by my self and they got to do more fun things. Next weekend I hope to do more fun things with my family instead of running around being a ”svenne”. : )

Freja has been in such a good mood today and that transferred over to me. At breakfast we started joking and laughing. And before we went out she said “love you”. Then I knew this would be a very good day. : )

On the way to kindergarten we saw a garbage truck and that made Freja even happier. I went to work with a smile on my face. : )

We ended this lovely Friday with coffee, ice cream and popcorn at my parents home. Now I have two days of to spend with my family. We have many things to do but I look forward to spending a lot of time together.