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Extra, Extra!

'Member when the reporter came over last week? Well, the paper came out yesterday and we're pretty much famous.

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Cook-a-long

My SATC gang (I’m the Charlotte) and I usually get together for dinner when one of us has a birthday. Erin celebrated hers at the end of May but instead of the usual, Shaena planned for us to take part in a cook-a-long with a celebrity chef at the Taste of Stockholm festival last Saturday. It was SO much fun, you guys, and the meal that we made was delicious, though I'm convinced it would have been even better if I hadn't had any part in making it. 

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Catch and release, of course.

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June 5th

June 6th

The Smell Of Beer In The Morning

Friday was graduation day for the local high school and we had the afternoon off so The Swede, Jamie and I joined Mama Swede's daycare group to watch the students ride through town in the back of huge trucks. The thing about graduation in Sweden is, since the grads are all nineteen and the drinking age is eighteen, the festivities are literally soaked in alcohol. You can't see it, but there was beer just running out of the back of that truck like a waterfall. The whole town reeked brewski for the rest of the day. Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to Graduation 2030.

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The Icing

The local newspaper came over and interviewed us this evening about how awesome it is to live in our neighborhood. Nowhere near as big a deal as some people in the family, but it was kind of fun. Anyway, since a newspaper reporter and photographer were coming into my home I obviously had to make sure it was extra clean, but I also wanted to add some fresh flowers as well. You know, to make it seem like I really have it together. But look at these hydrangeas I found! They're, like, the Cadillac of fresh flowers! The journalists didn't say anything, but I'm sure they were impressed.

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June 1st

June 2nd

Mother's Day Morning

This past Sunday was Mother’s Day here in Sweden. Since I didn’t get showered with jewelry, flowers or a champagne breakfast on the American holiday a few weeks ago, I assumed that meant that I’d be celebrated on the Swedish one. Then I brought it up a bunch of times beforehand. Like, a bunch of times. But here was the context, since I’m not typically a jewelry and flowers kind of girl (though champagne breakfast sounds amazing): “Maybe, husband, you should get up with Jamie at 6:00 am on Sunday and let me sleep three extra hours since it will be Mother’s Day and all. Think about it.” And he DID think about it. And I DID sleep in for three extra hours. I woke up just as the two of them were heading out the door to take care of some stuff at the fishing club and luxuriated in the reality that I was going to be able to watch a few uninterrupted episodes of Grace and Frankie on Netflix while they were gone. I took my time in the shower, fixed myself some breakfast, and put on an epie, only to receive a call shortly thereafter from The Swede saying that he was bringing Jambo home because he wanted to be with his mamma. Then I got the best of both worlds. Happy Mother’s Day to me!

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May 27th

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May 23rd
"Go Måns!!!"

May 25th

Passion

Sweden's second hottest dude. Måns Zelmerlöw, won Eurovision this weekend. Otherwise super manly Vikings in my family were crying actual tears of joy.

In other music news, my little choir had our spring concert yesterday and sang songs about how beautiful Sweden is this time of year in a 800-year-old church in the meadows on the outskirts of Kungsängen. My favorite was this traditional psalm, heard here at our crown princess's wedding in a slightly more professional, yet I daresay no more profound, passionate, version. It was evening, the sun was high in the sky, you could smell the cherry blossoms outside, and it was hard not to cry actual tears of joy.   

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King Of The Borås Zoo

This morning, when we woke up in Göteborg, we didn't have a single plan. We knew that we wanted to make our way toward Molsta since we're going to be spending Saturday night there watching Eurovision, but we were in no rush to get there. No sooner had we left the Göteborg area than The Swede had googled his way to a perfect plan. He found a hotel package with tickets to the zoo in Borås, about an hour away. We love the zoo!

And it was a great one! And we know from zoos, let me tell you. The very best was the peacock, who was on the loose and acting like he owned the place and getting very friendly while we had our fika. 

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Off To Göteborg

We woke up extra early today, hopped in the car, and drove five hours to Göteborg. Jamie's school is closed today and tomorrow for teacher planning and The Swede had to do some work in the Göteborg office, so Jambo and I decided to tag along. We had a really nice car ride down, with basically zero whining from the front or back seat, and we even enjoyed a fika along the highway, something The Swede aka "No Stops" would have never agreed to four years ago. When we arrived we spent a few hours at the office, where Jamie and I played hide and seek and climbed the tree out front and The Swede worked his IT magic. Then we checked into our hotel and split up. The Swede went to a very important football match while I took Jambo to Liseberg. We rode some rides and played and ate ice cream, but headed back earlier than I was expecting. Jamie wanted to spend time in the "hotal". So here we are, enjoying the kids channel and wifi on a pull out bed in a Göteborg hotel room. Pretty awesome, in my opinion.

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