Saturday, June 07, 2008

Pathfinder Investiture





Today Miriam and Mattias had their pathfinder investiture. They were both very proud of all the badges they got. Mattias was partiqulary proud of wearing his pathfinder uniform for the first time.
A lovely sunny day, very hot - over 30 degrees celcius... They all went for a very long walk afterwards, up the mountain to some waterfall. On the way down Miriam and her cousin Ylva, manged to get lost in the mountain for a couple of hours...
They are now all safely back home, tired and tucked up in bed! When asked if she was scared at all when they realised they were lost Miriam replied "Yes, we prayed four times!".
Despite the misfortune, the day was wonderful and the kids had a great time!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

First football match!
Mattias played his first proper football match ever on Monday evening! The entire family came along to cheer and be supportive. It was quite a facinating site....a bunch of six year olds trying to stay focused and play the ball to one another while at the same time trying to move it along to the opponents goal....think us parents on the sideline laughed as much as we cheered :-)
The result: First match - win: 1-0 Second match - loss: 2-4
I am a proud mummy though and daddy a proud coach :-D

Saturday, May 17, 2008

17th May!

A very cold day, but the kids still had a great time!
Miriam even led out in the singing with her singing group from the town hall balcony! She was very pleased about the fact that she got to shake hands with the mayor and received VIP treatment after the procession was finished!
It's always fun to see the children in their national costumes. They were so excited that they were up and dressed already by 7 o'clock this morning.... :-)

Hipp, hipp, hurra for Norge!!








Wednesday, April 30, 2008

It has been absolutely forever since I last wrote a blog entry and I have seriously considered just deleting the whole thing, but then I do love the concept and in my thoughts and mind I contribute to it more than any of my occasional readers ever will realise! The last few months have just been too mad, with pressure in both work and private life. Things have not eased off much yet, but right at this very moment Victor is glued to the screen watching a "captivating" football match between Chelsea and Liverpool, so, the moment for communicating with "the world beyond" is mine :-)

So, what's new?
  • Mattias has started football practise. The highlight of his week these days are Wednesday nights when the leg protectors and football shoes comes on and off he and Daddy goes!
  • Because the second new thing that has happened is that Victor is now a football coach! He is coaching the great team of six year old's, desperately trying to get them to pay more attention to passing and playing the ball to each other rather than getting sidetracked by interesting gravel that can be thrown at each other or other fascinating distractions!
  • Miranda has now turned five years old and is truly a proud five year old, whose one of her main hobbies include learning to write and do pretend homework! She is also happily spending hours digging and helping Daddy in the garden which has resurfaced after the winter!
  • Miriam is her normal, dutiful, good girl. She is an amazing story writer and recently produced a 13 page long computer written story!! It was actually fascinating reading (obviously inherited some of her mothers lively imagination....:-s)
  • Miriam is also learning to play the violin, which she is enjoying! She sent me to sleep on the sofa the other day when she was practising and I was resting, it was so relaxing!
  • Lulu is gradually growing up and is starting to be able to control herself a bit - a bit less puppy and a bit more adult :-)
  • I'm attempting to brace myself for one of the busiest times of my life work wise....not totally sure whether I'm ready for it, but I work on taking one day at the time!
If anybody are still popping by my blog for a read - then I'm sorry I've been so bad, I'll do my very best to make amends :-)