Motorway Mindfulness?

Today was my last work day (at least for this summer!) at Å. and I ended my fairly slow day at big sis's where Stephen and kiddies already were waiting. Mum and lil' sis were, as per usual :) , also there. It is VERY rare that the H family be at Sanna and Boris's without anyone else in The Family being there...we sort of stick together and enjoy it too. :)
Mommo gets to see all her girls and the grand kids in one go, Erin got to see (currently favourite aunt) Anna and all kidlets (both S&B's and ours) play of steam...all while the grown ups fika and gossip! ;) It's a win, win, win, WIN situation for ALL of us! :)

S&B have been reorganizing their house for the arrival of MiniP. Their kiddies playroom was moved upstairs and the master bedroom is now downstairs but there's also been painting, and all that that entails, involved and buying new storage stuff for both upstairs and down...and... *phew!* I get tired just writing about it! :D
The Final moving of the bed+stuff and us bringing the baby cradle today finalized the move and they are now READY for MiniP to get here. We're all SO exited! Sept 21 is the date and we're getting desperate to meet her! :D Yep, they couldn't wait to find out so we know it's a her! ♥

And now...back to what I was actually going to write about...! ;) (this was going to be a short/quick post before bed! Yeah right!) My motorway mindfulness! :D

I love the drive we have home from S&B's... It's soothing to be heading back home and I never tire of the just short of an hour's drive we have from theirs to Home. Sure, Stephen's still doing most of the driving but I enjoy it just as much (if not more! ;)) when I'm behind the wheel. :)

Mindfulness is about being in the moment and funny enough I find myself being in the moment most often right there on that motorway...! :)
Here's a few pics I took on our way home today, just being right there...


Road and more road and the sun's setting behind us...
Kids asleep.

My absolute favourite spot!

Grandalen
The motorway goes down into this valley and straight ahead, driving down, you can see nothing but pine trees for miles... No signs of anything but trees (and the monster road that you're on! ;)). It never looks exactly the same as the last time - even if you journey the route twice in the same day.

It changes from frosty blues to snow white in the winter and from crisp to deep to mossy green in the spring and summer and rusty tones in the autumn mixed with majestic blue and grey shades in the rain. It is always breathtakingly beautiful!

My favourite of favourite times to drive into the valley is just after a rain shower when the mist is rising through the pine trees and just...blows my mind away...! :) Right there on the motorway... For those few moments that the view is "just right" - when you can see more trees than road... :)

I wish it'd be OK to just pull over and take a proper photo of it but nah...I just hope that if we ever break down on our way home and have to pull over that it'd be right there...and the day that I have a good camera with me! ;)

♥ E.