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One month. The first clothes, that are already too small. Time does seem like a fleeting river as you try to hold on to it. Miky is awesome, as Juss, who adores him. Soon they'll be up to things together. Like eating soap. But after Monday, Juss can already explain you, little Miky, that it' doesn't taste that good.

This first month has been a joy as it has been a learning experience again on how to live without sleeping :)) I got to bed once at 3.30 in the morning, and Martin was woken up at 4. But we're good.  Looking like a pair of old slippers, but really really happy ones.

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It'll be november in a few days! Woah. All the colorful leaves are gone and it's pouring rain almost constantly. Every evening i've been baking pies with cinnamon and pumpkin-mash. It's my new zen thing to do, it seems. Just turn on Phil Collins already! Haha :))

No, seriously.

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But I'm hoping to fill november with guests and some other sweets. This nasty cold is finally showing signs of moving along and moving out of our home. Sweet! Breathing through the nose is not overrated. It is wonderful. One actress once said (as i took a class from her), that when you have a cold, a running nose, it's better not to even think you could actually do anything else than focus on getting better. She's maybe 60 now, but looks like 40. Yoga and gardening were the secret ingredients :)) Why am i talking about that now? It just jumped out of my head.

All these articles about motivation, feeling happy, getting animated and so one being posted and re-posted: November is coming.

Make it cozy! 

And if cinnamon and tangerines don't do the trick, 

you're allowed to get the christmas-lights out! ;)

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Uh, i just can't get a decent post posted lately. I've been up since 6 am and hoping to get to bed 23pm, but as history has taught me here, that might not be possible. We'll see. Martin is on a trip to the capital, on a short notice, so i plan holding that against him soon: to get a massage and sushi. 16 hours babysitting must be worth some appreciation. :)) (but as it's still ongoing, let's just hope i survive it)

Two major things here are sleep and food. They've become such essentials and the source of happiness. If you can't have one, you might get  the other. I even baked a cake yesterday and it didn't burn. Not even on the edges! I know, i was astonished too. 
Outdoors looks grey. I  like the color and i love the slightly warmer autumn and early spring days, when it rains a little and there's some fogginess in the horizon.

Since Juss got a cold, i caught it too, we all did in the end, so the energy-level has been on zombie-mode the past weeks. Let's get better!

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Our acquaintances have two sons with the age gap 1,5 years. The mother relied a message to me:" I survived. You'll survive." I liked it. It's a lot better than the don't worry pep-talk i got while pregnant. And it's spot on as well. One day at a time.

She told how now, when the boys are older (4 and 5), they are the best friends, doing everything together.

They also had this system, that once week mom got her own day. Which meant, that dad looked after the kids for a whole day and mom could do what ever she wanted. The flip-side of the story was, that mostly mom would spend her time in the next room, sleeping :)))

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The fog in the late morning.

It'll be a warm weekend, hence the fog, that stayed almost until noon. I went or a bike-ride to the supermarket and it felt nice. On Monday it'll be two weeks as a family of four. We're still looking for the rhythm: one day it goes smooth, the next one, not so much. There are moments when i feel like a diplomat in a crisis situation. I can handle it, i was surprised. These difficult and hard moments pass. They always do. There's always a solution.

Our neighbors, who have two a bit older kids themselves, have helped a lot this week. When it gets too loud here, i pack my kiddos and knock on their door :) I'm glad to have friends like that close by.

On the downside: Juss got a cold. It's been a while, it seems. The big question: parents, who let their kids go out on play-dates with a running nose, and parents, who don't  - is there any right answer, since every occasion is different?

Well, i decided, we drop out of social life, until our running nose doesn't go running around to other noses :)) ( but i feel a bit frustrated, since we're been on the receiving end of these bacillary for a while now  -_-)

We hope to have a healingly mellow weekend, with lots of sleep and being relaxed.

Wish you the same! ;)

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Since it's been an indoorsy week, i wanted to post some more photos of our trip to the woods. It might sound weird from a woman who just had a baby five days ago, but i really want to go out, like on a hike, visit friends at the countryside, go to the sauna. I do. And, what's even more strange, i might even have the strength to do so. I'm still not done comparing labor to a marathon: the first time it's hard but ecstatic, the second time it's still an effort, but you know how to enjoy it (at some point, bouncing on a giant ball, i asked Martin to tell me anecdotes), but mainly: your technique has made an improvement :). 

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What a birthday this year! It's amazing that he chose to be born on his moms birthdays early-early dawn :)

We were all well and good, so we were let home the next day, which was really nice. And there was a birthday-cake already waiting for us :

Do you know people who have their birthday on the same day as their parents? It seems rare :)) but is it?

Have a great weekend and lots of kisses to you all!

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The best playground ever

Beard-moss, indicator for clean air

The spotted woodpecker didn't pay us any attention. It was too delicious perhaps.

The idea of a forest-kindergarden is winning me over day by day. Being out there is such a treat.

Have a good Sunday!

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Our Indian summer ended just according to the calendar: after the 23th it was over with the light jackets and summer-shoes. But you still got to love autumn for it's riches. 

Life here is quite calm at the moment. Still sewing something, here and there putting stuff away or getting it out. It's calm. Tries to be.

But an advice for all the pregnant ladies : lie about your due date, lie about it early on. Then you won't get calls form people (who might call you otherwise twice a year) asking questions as "are you're done yet", or "when will you".  Lie to your friends and family (not the dad, of course :)). Just push the date with a satisfied heart two-three weeks ahead. I dearly regret not doing it this time.

Curiosity killed the cat, as the saying goes, but i can say, that it can taint a friendship for a while. Or at least, the person involved will be stressed and annoyed and usually friends don't have that as a goal, right?

However, when you're like suffering form not knowing and can't live otherwise at all, may there be whatever reason, then don't call the pregnant lady, but some other friend, who might be closer (and if they don't know, then it hasn't happened yet) or the spouse.

For the sake of vanilla- ice-cream, it'll happen, when it happens!

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Adventure. 

Here's an article i didn't read through, but liked the last paragraph:

Looking back, this is what I would tell laboring women, and anyone else who throws doubts at the extreme task we are set. We have ample counsel on how to do this, and it comes from the world of adventure. That is how labor should be viewed — as a solo sail around the Horn, as a free climb, as a trip into the void. How do women do it? We do it the way Eric Newby did it. The way Josh Slocum did it. The way Edmund Hillary did it. Sometimes, when things go badly wrong, the way Robert Falcon Scott did it. Breath by breath. Tack by tack. Foot over foot, until we reach the summit. Just exactly in that way. Wendy Plump

Our Sunday had some adventures too. Different kind.

When we were outside it started to rain quite heavily, but as we got home, it was raining inside as well. That was a surprise!

The attic is being rebuilt and ... as of, there is not much roof above our apartment apparently. But the construction-workers came some hours later and did some covering, so at least in the evening there was no dripping sound coming from anywhere. Our neighbors had the same fate as we, but a bit worse, as they might have to replace some of their ceiling. But i hope not, 'cause their too awaiting a baby and are soon moving to a house with their older toddler and awaiting new tenants - enough in their hands as there is.

It is really autumn! Can't yet believe it...