The new school

Friday was an exciting day, my co-workers and I got the opportunity to tour the old jail and meet the Indonesian investors behind the new Ib school where we have been offered jobs. Later I rushed back to work to meet with my last summer school students and 3 hours later I was at my inlaws place celebrating our 6 year olds birthday with family!
Saturday was the Gillen's annual lamb BBQ in jamjo and as always, a good time was had by all!
So you would guess today would be one of rest... But no, we are on our way to high chaparral with the carlsson's and the Vlachos families! I've got a cooked can on the stove for mini banoffie pies for desert and a my sites on a large cup of coffee before the boys wake up and realize today's the day we travel to the wild wild west!

A time to Sew

This morning I rose with the sun which was just after 4 and decided to take full advantage of the empty quiet living room before it became overrun with children and cereal bowels.
My friend who is also my coworker and I had paid a little visit to ikea in the hopes of finding some fabric and curtains to brighten up our new office. There we found "Evalotta" a perfect blue print with birds on it.. And on sale to boot!

So 40 minutes later the wall hanging was sewn and ironed and the 4 sleeping boys were none the wiser.

Azades generous husband spent a good part of his morning risking life and limb up on a ladder for us at work removing the mustard coloured drapes that had been hanging there for I don't know how long, and replacing them with light blue linen ones.

Azade and I worked away at unpacking and organizing until lunch and I can't tell you how good it felt to sit there!
A strange thing happened though .. Other teachers that were there stumbled in and had one of two reactions... Wow this is so nice... Oh I want to fix up my office too, or some off handed remark about how it was a waste of time or money that they themselves would never spend.
But I know the truth and that is I love my new office space and I look forward to sitting there and in turn isn't that enough to make me a better teacher and coworker?
Thank you miss A for showing me the good side of office living... I'm sold now and I can never go back!

Hurray for Kalle!!

Yesterday we had the pleasure of celebrating the most wonderful little boy;)

Headboard

Yesterday we finally got the tufted headboard up that my mother made us! It was a milestone in our life with small kids finally we have a kid free zone in our house and I love it!! Unfortunately I woke up with a terrible cold but on the upside I've been stuck in bed reading and surfing the net!

Moving House and Moving Office

Three weeks ago we packed up the attic where were had been living for the past five and a half years and migrated south to the second floor. It was the best decision we ever made! Things are still in boxes and will be for awhile but I have a secret weapon, my mother is here visiting for another 3 weeks, and slowly but surely she is getting things organized and most importantly cordinated for me! So as they say strike while the iron is hot, I am moving to another office at work, and the majority of my free time is now spent thinking up colour schemes for my new shelf. Last year I covered all of my folders in matching material and now I'm wondering if I should keep the same colours or change it up? I'm drawing inspiration from the WWII poster Keep Clam and Carry on!

Run Forrest run

Lately I've been adamant about following my running schedule and it's really paid off... But today after a great day at work for some reason I couldn't find my stride! Now I'm all freaked out what am I going to do if it's like this the day of the 5 km run in Växjö ?
I'm so down right now;( today's a new day and I'm just going to crawl into bed and hope for a better run next time 

A visit from high school

Last weekend my high school friend Laurie was in Switzerland so she decided to pop up and see us for a long weekend! It was so strange to have my two worlds meet and suddenly I got to see my new hometown through the eyes of my old hometown! We spent most of the time catching up on all the news, remembering how we were as teenagers, and laughing about how things look so different now when we are the parents. Laurie has a 15 year old daughter and hearing her "side" of it could of been cut from the same cloth of our rebellious days. It seems her daughter has the same smart mouth that we did and I just sat back and said .. I bet your mom (grandmother) is loving this now ;)
Next month my mom is coming here and lucky for me I have little boys and for the time being they don't sass me ... Which means my payback is still at bay, at least for now;)