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Hi Guys!
It's been a very long time. I have been crazy with the practics, the studying (or pretending to study), the kids and so much more.
It feels like I am running out of energy but I am sure that it'll be fine at the end. I am longing for my vacations, not exactly for relaxing... I have a summer job!! Feels great to have found a job and all, I am so greatful that things are going so well! Obviously there is a downside to all and in this case is just the tiny little detail that I am not going to have one week off! I have my big final exam the 9th of June and I start my first day at work the 13th... If you know me you know that I have been waiting far too long for this kind of chaotic life... I'm just the type who needs to keep busy.
And guess what? I have found a great site online where to buy my nametag for this and all the practices to come! Emily helped me choose the color and of course it ended up being lilac (only because unfortunately they didn't have pink... although it looks black on the photo) LOVE IT!
If you are looking for a place where to get your nametag done, order here

http://skyltmax.se

They make all kind of signs, I was actually thinking about ordering some for the girls bedroom... 

I just couldn't help it, I HAD TO HAVE A REAL ONE, plus, they were pretty cheap and it took 3 days to have it delivered in my mail box.
I gotta go now... Promise i'll write more and better next time, and it won't take this long again...

As I Walked Along...

Nine years ago I left Holland with a promise in my heart; to come back... Ever since I left the chanels and the chaotic streets of Amsterdam I kept inside of me a deep love for that land. Although it was only three months back in 2001-2002, a lot has happened there. As it usually is with life's great lessons, not everything back there was laughter and fun. In Holland I got closer to and appart from my sisters, in Holland we shared laughter and many tears, we grew older and maybe wiser... I had the chance to see my self through a different light, I experienced exile and loneliness for the first time, I found my sisters and myself, I lost pieces of me, I mutated...
I came back and everything was the same, and yet all was different. I felt home but I wasn't, the smells and colours, the busy streets and all their noises and life brought me back nine years ago... but the one who came was not the same. It just felt like coming from the past, into the future and from the future into the past, all at once.
I am very thankful that I got the chance to meet my sisters there and walk those streets with them once again. I couldn't have imagine a better way to keep my promise than doing it with my sisters, my friends since ever and forever, two of the most important people in my life. I just wish words would be enough to express how much I love them and how much they mean for me. I just wish there would be a way to make them see how wonderful they really are, I just hope they know it...

Emily's B-day party!

Emily had her party on feb 12th. Since our house is not that big and it is impossible to have the kids playing in the backyard with a few degrees below 0 and the rooftops being literally blown away (there has been more than a few unfortutate families who lost part of their rooves, no kidding), we decided to have it in a place called Kulhuset. I was convinced it was the most brilliant of the ideas until I found out that I was suppoused to look after 12 almost unknown kids aged 3 to 5 in a place with more than 60 little angels... Don't worry! they all survived and came back home safe and sound... and to their own families, too! Although it was a little hard to count how many had already gone home...

What really counts is that Emily had a great time and they went to bed very early! Gosh I am mean!

Emilys B-day Cake!

 I Love small toys... they come out very handy when mum has no time to full around with marsipan... Aren't they cute? This was Emily's 4th birthday cake, and mine too since it was actually my birthday today... Honestly, it's so much more fun to bake and decorate my kid's cakes, and they are so much cuter. So I got my pretty "My Little Pony" b-day today! LOVED IT!!!

And I wonder why...

No wonder I am this in love with my girls...
I was making dinner today, peeling potatoes while Olivia was watching competely concentrated... Her elbows resting on the counter and her little hands holding her chin. I started cutting the first potatoe as she said, profoundly moved by what I was doing, "we are sorry potatoe, we didn't mean it"

Later in the day, Nicklas hited his finger with something... not sure what, to what he screamed "Ouch! S#@!¤!" The girls were playing and running all around the house, but Emily got to hear it and in the middle of the play, she just screamed back at him: "Daddy, it was enough with the Ouch!"

What's up?

Finally it's over... just the first term, and the second term? starting on Monday... Why is it that I bring up College every single time? How boring can one get? The truth is that we haven't had so much going on here except for a few vomits and quite too many visits to the bathroom from Emily and Olivia who got the stomachflu just on time before my finals... They are ok now, they have even eaten good today and fortunatelly no changing sheets and pijamas and giving baths in the middle of the night... the mom? exhausted...
I am so anxious planing Emily's B-day on february! She hasn't picked up a theme for the cake so I thought I could choose it by myself this year... we'll se what comes out of it.
And I turn 35... That's a whole lot of years... I cannot but asking myself what I have done with all those, almost 12,800 days of life I've had... went to kindergarden, primary school, High school... made half way to become a chemical technician, not my stuff; change to pedadogy and finished. Tried to get in Medical School, failed by Physics... not again... changed religion, made one year in Psychology, served as a missionary in Patagonia (been to Cutral Co, Trelew, Comodoro Rivadavia, Ushuaia and San Martin de los Andes) and spent some of the greatest 19 months of my life, came back, got married, started International Business, not my thing... worked as an English teacher in a high School (and a lot of other things as well), started English in the University, moved to Holland for 3 months, moved to Spain for a month, back to Argentina and my job as a teacher, got divorced, moved to Scotland, move to Sweden, studied Swedish, got two wonderful kids,started Nursing... I haven't done much!!! what on earth happened with all those 12,800 days???
I got depressed... but from all I have done there are two little people who summarize it all in just one sentence "I have done two of the greatest of wonders" and I am happy, and with that alone, I feel I have succeded... Lame? maybe... it works for me!

Stressed X-mas...

This x-mas was unusual. I wasn't feeling all x-masy as I usually do... A whole bunch of tests, a lot of memories that came all att the same time to leave me all gloomy, the bad weather...
As it usually happens I let all my stress out in baking, the whisking, the smells, and of course the eating, help me to recover the "home sweet home" feeling when I feel I've lost it. if you are thinking about coming home for tea, I recommend you do it whenever I am homesick. So here are some of the things I've made to cheer myself up. It worked... and of course, it seems to have cheered up the digits is the wiegh as well...