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Christmas lunch has started, they boys are home Some of the food, the cold dishes which we start with Emil is happy after eating all the good food :-)   Hasse behind lit candles and with the Christmas tree behind Everyone concentrates on the food Jonas is playing Christmas carols for us And then it was time for Disney hour and now Mandy has joined us :-) Relaxing and cozy watching Disney Baloo from the Djungle book Me happy to have everyone home Mandy my beautiful daughter in law (not yet married but still)

The Christmas smorgasbord I just realized I haven't written anything since November 23! But I can tell you I haven't been lazy but there has been so much going on that I haven't had the strength to write. I had meetings that week and I was supposed to be at a conference hotel for lunch that Friday but I was to tired I had to cancel it. So instead I baked safron buns (!) and made chocolate troufles with ginger.  The ferry On December 1 it was Staffan's birthday (Hasse's oldest son) and I worked and worked at my job. Thursday I and Hasse were supposed to go to the theatre and see Come again Charlie, which was one of my birthday presents - thank you Pär and Brita. But Hasse wasn't feeling well so instead I asked Linnea, my bonus grand daughter if she wanted to go and she was very happy that I asked. We had a really good time and the play, which was a comedy, was funny but also with a message which made you laugh and then stop. It was about the si...

  OMG I just saw I haven't written anything since November 11. Bad Mia ;-) Lights at Kungsgatan, Stockholm I can just say that my days and weeks are so full now that when I have some moments I just want to sit down and do nothing. At most I write short on FB or Instagram but not anything else. I know, if I go in here every day it wouldn't be that much to write but I am so so tired nowadays. Sisters on the balcony of our hotel room I think you would be too if you lived in Sweden. This November has been the darkest ever! I'm not sure but I think we have seen the sun maybe a couple of hours the whole month. It's not even very light but kind of dusk all day. And this makes you even more tired. I am longing for next weekend when we can light all the advent lights. In fact there was a ceremony yesterday in Stockholm where they lit 700 000 lights in Stockholm. Birgit Bidder in concert Back to the last weeks event. As I wrote last I was to go on a concert at ...

The living room with work- and relax area Me and my collegues hard at work This weekend me and my 3 collegues in the working committé at the Rheumatic association had a conference at the Elite Marina Tower hotel here in Stockholm. We decided that time is never enough to do what we need to do which, at this instant, was to plan 2015 and furthermore make a 5-year plan. Another collegue joined us for a couple of hours to help out We had booked a suite with connecting bedrooms which turned out to be great (and cheaper than if we would have rented a conference room instead). Now we had a big "living room" with a working area with table, flipboard, pens and so on. This meant we could be very effective and we just left to have dinner, breakfast and lunch. Otherwise we stayed in the suite. Then at night we could hang in the sofa area of the room, tired and just laying there before going to bed.  We got so much done! And we did all, and a bit more, than we had planned ...

Just wanted to tell you with had our first snow for the season today. So now it starts. It's getting darker and darker, colder and colder and snow. Well we did know it was coming but it's always a surprise every year. I know I haven't written in a long time but there is so much going on and at night I'm usually too tired. Now it's almost midnight and I'm not in bed yet :-( Tomorrow I'm off to a conference with just the working group. We will be staying at a hotel in town until Sunday and work all the time. Then on Sunday I have to get back home quickly because it's Father's Day here and all the boys are coming to dinner :-) Yesterday me and my friend was at this amazing conference facility invited as VIP's. Touring round the premises followed by chocolate tasting and wine/liquertasting (that went with the chocolate). One of the dessert wines came from Cataluna. Then followed a 3-course dinner with wines that was choosen to get the mo...

I haven't had time to write for a while, as usual ;-) I have been busy with this and that. Me after visit to my hairstylist Since I last wrote I have been to my hairstylist, long overdue.  A rainy and foggy Malmo Last Friday and Saturday we had the Chairmen conference at Rosersberg and straightly after that I went to the Stockholm Central station to catch a train for Malmo where I attended a course in my economic program. Came home late Tuesday night. Up working, as usual, at 04.30. In the afternoon it was time for my flu shot, my Mekobalamin and Pneumonia shot so 3 at once. The next day, Thursday, I was supposed to go to Norrtalje for some treatment but I was a bit fiverish, after the shots probably, so we changed that to November instead. Haga park a rainy Saturday My friend Ingvor More of the Park Cosy fireplace Then yesterday, a very rainy and grey day, me and two other friends went to Haga parken which is the place where our Crownprincess Vic...