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I hope you had a good weekend with lots of fun and leisure time!

We did much this weekend: visited the Grannys, got a silverspoon from the mayor, ate cake, sushi, pumkinsoup.

There were also some skiing and sledging happening. Martin did again this year the 63 km skimarathon ... and with his best time ever - under 4 hours! In the meantime i went sledging with M and R, and was surprised how frightning coming down the hill actually was. But after a while we did get a bit bolder and bolder. So time flew and for a while we didn't even notice that our mittens were wet and our toes started to feel cold. But as a note to self i want to write down to always sledge first before i send my child down the hill, because there are tricky parts in sledging: because it's a popular place, the hill was almost just ice and a bit snow covering it, and secondly because all is white, you can't really see the bumps and holes right away. Perfect for bruises.

I was amazed how boldly people just sent their little ones down the hill. But maybe they go there every day and know it all?

In the evening we celebrated Martins record with sushi! How come such delicious food can even exist?

As for today im terribly behind on my emails: i've been writing a response to Maria (almost?) a month now, and there are dear others i want to write to aswell. Im not sure how it will work out... slowly slowly, i guess. I'll also start univeristy from tomorrow, just taking some courses this semester.

So please, be patient with me :)

Have an awesome week!

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Es ist schon eine weile her als die Sprache sich hier eine Änderung erlaubte. Das Triviale vermehrt sich besser auf Englisch, aber für das Besondere fehlt die Zeit und der Mut und noch etwas. Irgendwie sind die letzten Tage wieder schwer geworden. Es ändert sich auch bald, bin mir sicher, man muss nur durch und dann geht's.

Das Schreiben. Wird in der Welt nicht zu viel geschrieben und dabei eigentlich nichts oder sehr wenig gesagt? Ich fühl mich auch manchmal dafür verantwortlich die Welt mit irgendwelchen Worten zu belasten. (Dennoch gibt es Gedanken, die nur schriftlich sich zeigen wollen, und Themen, die noch zu entfalten sind...)

Aber sich dann wircklich ins Zeug setzen, etwas schaffen, eine Novelle, ein Roman, ein Gedicht. Wären es dann nicht nur Schatten von anderen Novellen, Romanen und Gedichten? Die millionste Variation von dem einen Mythos. Und für wen, wenn nicht für sich selbst?

Im Bücherregal ist ein Buch von einem Freund. Ich versuchte es mal zu lesen, aber dann ging es nicht. Ich glaube nicht an Konstruktionen. Ich glaube an Musik. Aber es klang nicht. Zumindest damals.
In den Briefkasten kommt jeden Monat ein Buch... klasse Literatur. Wir lesen. Wir sprechen. Wir vergessen. Das war's. 

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Happy Valentine's day!

I've just sent my guys out to get a nice cake. Usually we don't celebrate Valentine's day, but it's just a too good excuse to eat cake, to let it pass :)

But actually on tuesday we celebrated Shrovetide... i translated this word online, so im not quite sure if it's the correct one. Anyway. We went skiing with our little family, since Martins workplace organized a daytrip to a skiresort. We had traditional soup and sweets and had a great time skiing. In highschool i hated skiing, but now it seems fun, as you do as fast and as much as you youself want and enjoy the beautiful landskape.

Edit: he bought the worst cake ever (yes, that is possible), but i still love him to pieces ♥ ♥ ♥

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How come it's already sundayevening!?

Time just has disapeared.

We have dogs weather: wet, wet, wet. 

I went to a familycourse with family and friends. We had a dinner with Martins colleagues at our place, before that went to a birthdayparty, and as for today we have been already to three birthdaypartys of little ones. Uuh! I need another weekend, please :)

I was meaning to write about that course in more detailed way, but it just makes me too disapointed to do so. I'll be not going anytime soon to such things. Just to get commonsence knowledge in a shabby packaging isn't worth the time and money. What displeases me the most is when people as experts forget during the discussion what they have been talking about the last hour and start to contradict just to please the crowd. But the crowd is not always the sharpest pencil in the box and since people are there to learn...  it's such an unnessessary thing to do. 

 I think i shoud write about it sometime to really get you the idea what was going on, but for now, im just too tired. 

What i learned this week for sure was, that not all parents see parenting like we do and it made me sad. I have to consider myself really-really lucky to have this man by my side who shows us his love every single day. Who is there as a father since Juss took his first breath of air in this world and even before that. If a man is like that, he is a real man. A wonderful man. A Father with a capital letter. 

There is no "later" in parenting. And luckly there are people whom i can admire as families and humans, who inspire and give strenght by just existing :)

I wish you a smooth start tomorrow and let every day of this week be valentine's day!

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Where to start? Last week? Weekend?

Is it too much to say i had a reincarnation during this weekend :) To make it short: i think we ought to live in the countryside,  even just for Juss's sake, or our mental health's sake. I had more people around me than here for weeks, nobody had issues about running noses or anything else. We went to the smoke-sauna with our whole family, (tho my mom was saing not to take Juss, because...cold and hot and getting a cold..) AND it was amazing. Juss was so interested in all, there were other babys there aswell. I think sometimes i worry too much about stuff or am thinking how to do it logistically too much ahead, solutions happen also by just happening, by just you being there, acting the way you see fit. 

So, we had sauna, then the next day we went skiing, all together. I think i did that maybe 10 years ago. Juss sat on Martins back and slept the whole time. Later he got to sleep in a sledge, between sheepskins. 

And today.. no sign of our running nose. 

Im over the moon anyway. Im so proud of us and happy to have tried new things together and not backing out, like i usually do, as to be careful, too careful as i now see. 

I want to also share some thoughts from Dylan Moran, (my favourite comedian!). Just to share his views on the matter:

To be honest, i think i've been here in the city as lonely in the past weeks, as i would be somewhere in the woods with my goats and sheeps and potatofields :)

(as there is potential, that people drive miles to drink tea the whole day, maybe even less lonely)

Have a great week! 

( I hope to post soon about our lovely evening with Hiro and Laura, and about the coming friday... big day for our university)