Christmas Gifts Preparations

To write about Christmas preparations in November is almost hilarious, if you know me. We usually miss 1st of Advent (in Sweden we light one candle every Sunday (4 Sundays) before Christmas). It is a beautifull tradition, I'll tell you more about it this coming Sunday.

For years, we have moved house in December, so the whole Christmas decorating part naturally has been delayed. But this year I am all set!

A tradition that I started when J was newborn is to give my children a pretty Christmas decor each year. The first year, I bought them a snow globe each. J was just 2.5years last Christmas and had not seen her snowglobe since January that year, when we packed away all our Christmas things, and she started jumping up and down shouting "hnö, hnö!" (which menas snö/snow)

Last Christmas I gave them a pretty Christmas bauble for the tree and this year, I think I am going to get them Christmas cups. It's great having little traditions, that build up over the years, I think.

To read other Show and Tell contributions this week, look at the following blogs: Nilla,Simone,Anna,Desiree,Annika, Anne,Petra ,Anna-Saltis ,Millan, AuroraBuddha, Anki, Lullun, Marianne,Victoria, Susanne, Lia, Cecilia, Leopardia, Anne-Marie, Marina, Marie, Strandmamman, M.K.B , Ulrika, Jemaya, Nina, Kicki, Barbamorsan, Emma,MiaD, Tätorts-Anna, Maisuoi, Inga-Britt
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Lena

Show and Tell: Jewellery

This week's theme on the Show and Tell is jewellery. I am recycling my ring photo from early summer, as these are almost the only pieces of jewellery that I have.

It's not that I don't like jewellery, I love it! I think it's more the "baby years" that makes anything that a baby can pull or get hooked on, is more a nuisance than necessarily something that enhances your life.

My sister in law (to be) asked me the other week when they were visiting why I didn't use earrings and I replied, because of the baby..she looked at my 3year-old sitting with hair-clips in her hair putting a jigsaw of 24 pieces together...and we had quite a good laugh.

I realize that I am starting to have more interest in clothes nowadays and I realize that maybe it's time to have some jewellery in my life again. *nudge, nudge to O if he reads this...*

The rings on the photo are my engagement ring and my wedding ring. We did the english way, when getting rings, so I got the one with the stone for our engagement and we exchanged the more plain, textured rings when we got married.

To read other Show and Tell contributions this week, look at the following blogs: Nilla,Simone,Anna,Desiree,Annika, Anne,Petra ,Anna-Saltis ,Millan ,AuroraBuddha,Anki,Lullun, Marianne,Victoria,Susanne,Lia,Cecilia,Leopardia, Anne-Marie, Marina, Marie, Strandmamman, M.K.B , Ulrika, Jemaya, Nina, Kicki, Barbamorsan, Emma,MiaD, Tätorts-Anna, Maisuoi, Inga-Britt
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Lena

Show and tell: If I could change career

I've joined a couple of bloggers for a Friday Blog theme. This week the subject is: If I could change career.

In my case it's not a case of if, but when.

Cleaning lady at doctor's surgery and nursing homes, doing the till in a grocery store, ice cream cafe, conferences, christmas card sorting, mail man, news paper delivery, invoicing at a funeral parlour, office assistant, nurse assistant at nursing home for people with dementia.

That's what I was doing until I had my degree. When I finally had it I went from sales systems to GIS (Geographical systems) to supply chain (manufacturing and delivery) and then to mobile phones before I had my son. In Sweden you call a person constantly changing jobs a "hoppjerka", that's me.

My current job, I've had for over 4years now, which is the longest I have ever stayed in a job. That must be due to my boss, he is the most gorgeous man... ;)

But we have already started to think about our next move, so here comes the when I change career-part. A little over a year ago, we were really fed up with our life here and we started dreaming about a new challenge. We left the children with a friend over the weekend, where we had a look at this house. It is a 10bed hotel, which *to say the least* needed a little TLC.

We looked up the area, a really good area for tourism, 1h south of Edinburgh (ok, maybe 1h 15min..) and they were going to build a rail line just a couple of miles from the village, which would make it a commuting area Edinburgh.

So we jumped to the occasion and put an offer in. We were very excited!! To be completely sure of what we would let ourselves into we had a full structural survey. The survey unfortunately showed us that we would buy ourselves 500 sqm of wood worm, so we pulled out, but that is how we ended up in Edinburgh for a year.

I wonder when our next surge comes along. I would love to be in the property market, but it's not exactly the best of times to buy houses at the moment. I have also been thinking about starting up a relocation agency. All our moves has made me quite a wiz at looking up good houses, schools and local amenities.. :)

If you want to have a look around the other Friday bloggers (Show and Tell), please visit these bloggers:
Nilla,Simone,Anna,Desiree,Annika, Anne,Petra ,Anna-Saltis ,Millan ,AuroraBuddha,Anki,Lullun, Marianne,Victoria,Susanne,Lia,Cecilia,Leopardia, Anne-Marie, Marina, Marie, Strandmamman,
M.K.B , Ulrika, Jemaya, Nina, Kicki, Barbamorsan