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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Shopping day.
Today we went shopping and bought lots of candles, a couple of cheap bathroom hand towels for the downstair's bathroom, some durable, plastic, reusable food containers for Leia, and a few odd things like that. :) Then we did a little grocery shopping.
It is nice with Leia napping later in the day now, so we can get things done in the morning. :) We came home and she napped her 3 hours. During that time, I sent some stuff to my Swedish teacher, and then I looked up about 10 Swedish words that all mean "scream." :T It is difficult to figure out the different ways to use words that all mean the same thing, like: yell, shout, scream, etc..
You have to have examples of each word, to learn how to use them, because they all mean the same thing. The joys of learning a language !
We carried the last piece of outdoor furniture to the garage, looked around in the yard down the hill, and tried to figure out what to do with the overgrown grass on the hill. The neighbor (gray/blue) house can get us a birch tree, and we are thinking of a couple of apple trees too. To provide some shade and hopefully help things not grow so much. We want to start with that and then see how it looks and what we will have to do from there.
And we talked about trying to have the city repave the sidewalk that should be connected to our property. There used to be one, but it is gone now... The neighbor (gray/blue) house said that he talked to someone too, about getting it fixed, but "they" (the commune) said that there is no plans for a sidewalk there. Who stops paving a sidwalk halfway down a street..?!?! Seriously. So. Fredrik has been looking up our property plans at work.. his job can come in handy! :) Once he has the right papers, we hope to get something done about it.. to make them fix it so that it looks better. Fredrik can even offer to measure it for them for free, to cut down on cost or whatnot. But he's having trouble finding the right documents. :/ So that is on one of his to-do lists. :/ :)
Seems like all the fireplace fixing people are in Säffle. :/ :) Still trying to get that organized.
While she slept, we took in all the summer gardening stuff, repotted plants and put them inside. Put out a few Winter plants.. things like that.
We need to order pellets.. :/
Now the blog entry is starting to sound like my own personal to-do list.. :P :)
Hmmm...
Leia stands to poop now.. :/ Wondering if we should use this as a time to start potty training her. Not something I am looking forward to. :/ :) I've potty trained plenty of other people's children...... :/ :) Someone else should potty train Leia !! :))
The sun actually shone today. :) (First time in a month?) It was early evening. :) So after dinner, since it was nice and dried the grass up a little, Fredrik mowed. He hopes it will be the last time of the year, but I doubt it. :/
But now I want to go to bed.. :P Leia was up a little earlier than normal this morning (at 6), and I wanna get some sleep incase she does the same tomorrow. :P
It is nice with Leia napping later in the day now, so we can get things done in the morning. :) We came home and she napped her 3 hours. During that time, I sent some stuff to my Swedish teacher, and then I looked up about 10 Swedish words that all mean "scream." :T It is difficult to figure out the different ways to use words that all mean the same thing, like: yell, shout, scream, etc..
You have to have examples of each word, to learn how to use them, because they all mean the same thing. The joys of learning a language !
We carried the last piece of outdoor furniture to the garage, looked around in the yard down the hill, and tried to figure out what to do with the overgrown grass on the hill. The neighbor (gray/blue) house can get us a birch tree, and we are thinking of a couple of apple trees too. To provide some shade and hopefully help things not grow so much. We want to start with that and then see how it looks and what we will have to do from there.
And we talked about trying to have the city repave the sidewalk that should be connected to our property. There used to be one, but it is gone now... The neighbor (gray/blue) house said that he talked to someone too, about getting it fixed, but "they" (the commune) said that there is no plans for a sidewalk there. Who stops paving a sidwalk halfway down a street..?!?! Seriously. So. Fredrik has been looking up our property plans at work.. his job can come in handy! :) Once he has the right papers, we hope to get something done about it.. to make them fix it so that it looks better. Fredrik can even offer to measure it for them for free, to cut down on cost or whatnot. But he's having trouble finding the right documents. :/ So that is on one of his to-do lists. :/ :)
Seems like all the fireplace fixing people are in Säffle. :/ :) Still trying to get that organized.
While she slept, we took in all the summer gardening stuff, repotted plants and put them inside. Put out a few Winter plants.. things like that.
We need to order pellets.. :/
Now the blog entry is starting to sound like my own personal to-do list.. :P :)
Hmmm...
Leia stands to poop now.. :/ Wondering if we should use this as a time to start potty training her. Not something I am looking forward to. :/ :) I've potty trained plenty of other people's children...... :/ :) Someone else should potty train Leia !! :))
The sun actually shone today. :) (First time in a month?) It was early evening. :) So after dinner, since it was nice and dried the grass up a little, Fredrik mowed. He hopes it will be the last time of the year, but I doubt it. :/
But now I want to go to bed.. :P Leia was up a little earlier than normal this morning (at 6), and I wanna get some sleep incase she does the same tomorrow. :P
How much is too much??
I am extremely anxious for the day when Leia comes into our bedroom and I tell her "go fix your own breakfast" and I roll over and go back to sleep. :))) But we still have a little while to go before we get to that point.Leia slept for about 10 minutes in her stroller yesterday on the way home from our walk. Then she didn't sleep for her nap. :/ Which is what she does 100% of the time even if she sleeps for a few minutes. So she was cranky yesterday. :/ Since she didn't sleep anywhere close to her 3 hour nap during the day. Then I couldn't get anything done. It was the "perfect" ending for a long, drawn out week. I was so excited that Friday had finally shown up, and it ended up being such a horrible day. I had lots of cleaning that I *had* to do, and she stood/sat and screamed at me the whole time I did anything.
The week was so.. unfun that I even went to the purse/bag shop in town and eyed a few nice items. :/ :) How much is too much to spend on a bag? In the store they range from 300-2000 sek (50-300$). No matter how nice it is, I don't think I could spend 2000sek on a purse. :/ I didn't buy anything, even though I wanted to. Fredrik thinks that all mine look the same.. so I am making him have the final say from now on. :P
Fredrik came home an hour earlier than he normally does on Fridays. It is nice to have a little extra help. :/ He even made dinner yesterday. :) So I managed to finish vacuuming while he was doing that.
I hope to turn in my 2nd Swedish assignment today. I hear from my new Swedish teacher even less than the old one. :/
So Leia will soon start daycare. We still have to decide on how long she will be there. We get 25 hours a week. I'm thinking 3 days a week (tue-thurs), and then maybe 5-6 hours on those days. I think she will do well though. :) We got a welcome postcard from the daycare. And they said that she will start her "inskolning" (assimilation) on the first Monday of November, from 09.30-11.00. Fredrik will take the day off, or the morning, so that we can both be there. Not sure about the rest of the week though, if he will take off a little here or there, to see how she does. :) I'm excited for her though. :) I think she will love playing with other children. :)
When we went to the Thai place for dinner the other day.. A family with 7 children came in. :/ (And the mom was pregnant!) The Thai place didn't have room for them, because they were expecting a large group for a party. There was a little girl, around 4, that kept staring at Leia and wanted to play with her. And then there was another one around 2. Leia and the 2yo finally noticed each other.. and at the same time, their arms reached straight out, their hands almost touching, and they both had looks of amazement on their faces. :/ :) It was the weirdest thing. Leia in her highchair was reaching her arm out as much as she could, and the 2yo slowly creeped forward with her hand reaching for Leia's.. we all were laughing and the dad finally moved the 2yo away. It was as if they were long lost friends and hadn't seen each other in years. :/ :))
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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