So we left Sweden...

Bye Bye for this time... so a while ago we left the amazing Swedish summer... Although I must say we have had a really good late spring/early summer back home! I feel that we have done a lot of fun things for the whole family and also met our dear friends. Unfortunately its never enough time to see everyone as much as you wish, especially when most people work and it's not time for vacation, but I'm happy for the moments we got together with friends and family <3 We will miss you all!!!  It has also been so nice to see Natalie play and create memories with her friends!

Now we are heading for Missouri and visit Jared's family! First we are going to stay at Rhonda's house for a few weeks and then the plans are to rent a place for us and start to make ourselves "at home"...

I'm sorry I haven't updated for a while...but better late than never....

Uncle Hugo & Natalie at Stugan in Hällevik.

A week in Gothenburg...

From 14th of december...

We had a really nice time in Gothenburg together with my Dad, his wife and their son Hugo! My big brother also joined us for half the week. It felt good to live alittle "city life" for a while. I lived in Gbg a year and it is definately my favourite city in Sweden. Very pretty now before Christmas!  Since this friendly city is located right by the ocean it can be windy and also quite rainy. We had a little bit of both..
The plan was to do alot of kid friendly activities during the week. And since I had "babysitters" I also planned to actually spend some time without the kids in the evenings..just be me again.. not only a mama!

We went on a two-day trip to a  waterpark resort "TheReef", in Denmark. I can highly recommend it to families! We started with a
3.5 h trip with the ferry to Fredrikshavn. Already on the boat Hugo and Natalie had a lot of things to do and Curious George also came and played for a while. The resort is a theme "Pirate hotel" with an inbuild waterpark. So you take the elevators from your room to the pools! Very good for kids of all ages!

We also visited Universeum (universeum.se) , and had a fun half day there with oncle Mikael...
And I got to go out and had a few drinks with my loved friend Carolina!  So nice to catch up on our lives!♡♡♡

Except from a few planned things that a storm and sickness unfortunately put an end to, our week was memorable and fun.. And we will definately be back soon!

Once again..only pics from my phone.

  

 

Cold day..

From 27th of nov..

So far we have had nice and relaxing two weeks in Sweden. November has been alot warmer than usual, and also more green. Moms neighbor mowed his yard yesterday... But it will be cooler.

It's really nice to see all friends and family again, I wish all people were of work though so we could just hangaround..but thats not how the real world works...Only when you are parentfree with your extremely wild 1year old..
One of my best friends, Annika, is also home with her little daughter right now so we can admire our girls together!  It's truly a unique and such a big advantage swedish parents have overhere. Parents can stay home with their baby for a long time without worries for losing their job or not pay the bills. The swedish law give you rights to stay home 480 days ( each parent must at least take 60 days, the rest you can split however you wish between the mom and dad). For 390 days you will get almost 80% of your salary ( depending on your average salary the last 240 days before the birth). The rest 90 days you get 180 sek minus tax (so only like 20 usd/ day). And you can plan to "take" as many days a week you need to save days for future until the child is 8. All in all unbeatable benefits for swedish parents...

I put up some pictures from my cellphone...All taken in Hörvik, where we stay right now.