Nanny H? :)

Hmm...lots of things on my mind at the moment...

Found out this week that our school will offer at "course package" of educational (pedagogical?) courses adapted toward children for two terms (i.e. a year), starting in January. Basically if and when I get accepted and have finished with the courses I can work as a nursery nurse, a nanny. :) SO difficult to explain the Swedish school system in English! *sigh* :)

My goal is still to get my "slutbetyg" and apply to university and to study to become a teacher, most likely preschool teacher. This "class" I'm now hoping to get in to in January will just help me get the necessary points together and can be of good help in my university studies but also if for some reason I don't get in to uni or we find ourselves in a position, possibly financial with the world markets crashing all over the place, I still have a chance to work with what I want (kids!) rather than what I've sort of just got stuck in (sales).
Lots of rambling...did I make any sense?! Probably not! :)

I know what I'm talking about at least...I think... ;)

Tonsillitis...again...

Not written anything for a while... Busybusybusy with school, exams and assignments and all of us being more or less unwell for the last month. Both Anton and Stephen were on antibiotics beginning of October then Anton got the croup and fever the last week in Oct. The week after A's birthday I got tonsillitis and a heavy penicillin course, Erin had a off-and-on fever spell - I think due to her new teeth... I finished off my penicillin on Thursday last week and felt fine for two days and then miserable again on Sunday! *sigh*
So, back to the GP's yesterday and another, different, set of antibiotics - again for 10 days... missing another week of school, a history exam and stuff. Will get to do the exam again in two weeks time, probably good actually since I've had my hands full of everything else but the industrial revolution and WWI!
AND...Stephen's been feeling fairly rough too with sniffles and coughs etc but has, of course, not taken any time off work to get better... *double sigh*

Apparently 1 out of 7 get the tonsillitis back, if one has young children in daycare as well the chances are even higher. Yay for me!

Dagis (daycare) keeps *bleeep*:ing me off. Sorry, but I just don't understand how they can be soooo difficult to get along with!?!
I've tried the honest and straight-to-the-point approach, I've done the I don't give a damn approach and the follow the rules approach but they still don't seem "happy" and still manage to upset and annoy me!

WHY is it SO hard to and such a bother for them to do their job!?! Which is to mind my children when we're at work, school or sick...yes! I do have a RIGHT to childcare when I'm not well. It's a privilege that all countries don't have but we do and I am grateful!
It's my RIGHT and I shouldn't have to have a discussion about my rights when it's my *bleep*ing RIGHT!!! *argh!*

One teacher in particular seems to not know when to stop talking... I understand that she can't decide things for the whole dagis but then just say that and say that she'll get back to me with an answer. NO! She has to give me possible negative possibilities to my query and seem as uncooperative as she possibly can so that I leave there both upset, angry and confused...still...Anton's "group" don't seem to manage anything in her absence! Why!? WHY?!?!
In Erin's group there's rarely any problems... *sigh* I don't know...

I think I've said it before...for a person who hates conflicts and arguments I've had more issues of that kind since Anton started dagis about a year ago then I have had in my whole life previously... It can't keep going on the way it has been...I just don't know what to do about it right now...

Any hoot, ;) , time to get ready and pick little ones up! At least they LOVE the place so I should maybe just grit my teeth and stick it out....?

Just one of those days...

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all dad's out there, or at least in Sweden! :)

Best, biggest, warmest wish of course goes out to Stephen the man in my life, the father of our children. You're the best! ♥

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ We love you! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Now in blonde! :)

So, thought it was time for a change and Stephen, who never expresses any thoughts he has about my hair colour or clothes or whatever, suggested that I might go lighter this time!? :D Well, to me its like him saying pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top! ;)

Here's the result!

Before (with Erin in April)

After (yesterday with Anton)

Birthday party

Anton's been waiting for his birthday for months now and has been super exited the last days coming up to it. Yesterday morning he wouldn't go down for his nap even though he'd fallen asleep late and woken up early, he must have been knackered but no, no sleeping! His excitement must have rubbed off on Erin because she only slept for 20 min tops!
Finally I manage to settle him just short of an hour before guests are due to start arriving, and that was just as well. For once everyone was here just about the same time and A must have gotten just the perfect amount of sleep since he had no probs waking up when Mommo and Anna where the firsts ones to arrive and he normally is very difficult to wake. :)

He got LOADS of toys! :D A police car, helicopter and motorbike, a fire engine, more duplo, a jigsaw and a book. Vaari (my dad) had made his "traditional" chair-with-chest for our prince to sit on, this year all grand kids have gotten one from him. :)
From us he got a blue watch which, beside the cake with strawberries on top, was the only thing he'd asked for for his birthday.

Coffee, cake (VERY tasty!) and singing for both him and my mum who's birthday it was yesterday. :) Our kiddes get along SO well with their cousins so they played "nice" while us adults got to have a good chat. :) A REALLY good day, topped of with a LARGE order of pizzas (12!) for dinner. :D
He had a brilliant birthday, of that I am sure! :)

Happy birthday Anton!

Where has the time gone? Three years and two and a half hour ago our little man was born and changed our lives forever, to the better! :) What a blessing and a joy he is and the best big brother Erin could ever have. They laugh, play and of course fight but the love between them is unmistakable!

Happy Happy Birthday to our Big Man! :)

Today we celebrate with a little party here at home with his very sought after cake with strawberries on top. Been asking for it for months now and thankfully we could still get nice strawberries at this time of year.

*phew* :)