Our Celebrity

The suspense is killing you, right?  What on earth did the ladies of the house do while the dudes were outside burning stuff on Saturday night?  Well, late in the afternoon Sarianne got a call with a request from Aftonbladet, the New York Times of Sweden, to do an interview on buying and selling secondhand goods online.  Furthermore, they needed a picture so they were sending a big city photographer out to the country to shoot her.  Naturally, we sprang into motion, cleaning the cabin (read: slinging everything we could into the bedroom and locking the door) and primping Sarianne for her photo shoot.  I like to think of it as The Moment Mara Finally Got Some Appreciation for Bringing Makeup to the Country Instead of Just Raised Eyebrows.  When the photographer arrived, she took a few glamour shots of Sarianne in the front yard, a few of Elin, Julia and her in front of the house and, drooling at the possibility that the camper was secondhand online purchase, dragged the girls to the camper to use it as a backdrop.  In all its glory.  And then the photographer left and we all waited until morning when the paper would come out and the picture would show up as big as a postage stamp on some page with a triple-digit number.  Except get this: later in the evening The Swede opened up his Aftonbladet iPhone app and the article and photo were on the opening page!  And then get THIS:

Page ten (double-digits, mind you) held a FULL PAGE ARTICLE with a gigantic picture!!!  Sarianne's ego was drunk and disorderly, a bull in the china shop of that evening and the following morning, but I can't say that I blame her.  Indeed, even my own ego grew three sizes that day just being in her company and good graces.  Thanks, of course, to the makeup.