This Weekend

This weekend was one of those ones you feel lasted just long enough. It had enough down time that it didn't fly by and enough running around that we didn't get bored. I had had a ladies night on the books for Saturday night for weeks so The Swede planned to take Jamie to the cabin yesterday but ended up canceling because he didn't feel well. He took one for the team instead and brought us to an awesome mall we'd never been to where they just opened the first Apple store in Sweden. Not a techie myself, I was still very impressed with the place. It felt like the future. The Swede walked out with a new toy to keep him company while I was out with the girls.  Afterward, we went to the play land, just like every other young family in northern Stockholm, apparently. It was wild and The Swede's condition worsened.

Feeling only the slightest bit guilty for leaving an ailing husband at home to put Jamie to bed himself, I hopped the train over to Erin's to pick her up and head into town. We ate at an Asian restaurant called Eat in a hip neighborhood and it was awful. The waiter, the food, the drinks, even the chairs were bad, bad, bad so we popped in at Vapiano, our usual, to end the evening on a high note. And no matter how smoking hot we looked, fellas, half of us are moms so we were on our way home by quarter past eleven.

Then, today, we went to a trade fair of kids products where Sarianne was working over the weekend. It was packed and Jamie hadn't gotten enough of a nap so he was pretty unruly. We plopped him into a baby gymnastics corner and let him go to town and that helped, but his exhaustion put a bit of a damper on the afternoon. I thought it might be a good idea to take him for a walk in the woods, but only succeeded in moving the tantrum out of doors. Nap lesson learned.

Jamie is asleep now, though, so The Swede and I will cap off the weekend with a Sons of Anarchy mini marathon and a slice of chocolate cake. And I'm thinking about a glass of wine, not gonna lie.