An active weekend,

Another Sunday evening has arrived and Monday morning is not very far. It has been a very good and quite active weekend and I have enjoyed every moment on it. Those kind of weekends I would love to have more.

Yesterday morning after we woke up, we took a trip to Ulricehamn. It would had been a crime not to go out on that wonderful sunny weather. So plan was to take a walk by the Åsunden and when visit my very good friend. That was exactly what my soul needed. It feels always so good to see her and spend time with her and just to talk and have a cup off coffee.

Before coffee break we visited city park. Much smaller than in Jönköping, but same cozy and also has those small old buildings. It was just fantastic to see some new places and just enjoy free clean air. As I told before, would have been crime to sit in on that kind of wonderful sunny warm spring day. Same time I could spend bit time together with my husband and once in a while it is well needed and it had quite a while since we had our trip last time. I also did not want to go alone, since it is not something the doctors have advised.

After a good walk and playtime in park we went in to have a cup coffee and get bite food before we started to drive back towards Norrahammar. A good bite of spongecake and biscuits :) Nothing hits homemade. Will see, what I can offer back on Thursday when Josefine comes to Norrahammar and to Jönköping. It will be hard to beat those good biscuits. So, I have to found out something good as well or I can nicely ask my husband to bake something good for us since he is actually very good on baking. Thank you sweetheart for the wonderful time with you. Always so good to see you and to talk with you. Can't wait for Thursday. Would like to have it already.

After we came home, it felt like spring had really arrived to our garden. So many flowers had started to bloom.  It was just a beautiful moment in my opinion. Daffodils, crocus and mini iris. Spring feeling just what it is needed once in a while.

 

Yesterday afternoon we also decided to open barbecue season. Mmmmm. I was in food heaven. For the first time in my life I made my own barbecue glaze and it came out very good. So I decided that it will not be just only one time I will make it by my self. From now on, I will start to make every time my own glaze. Even my husband loved it and it tasted bit this and that and result after barbecue was just amazing :) The evening was finished with a good film and company. The Hobbit was showed in TV and we decided to look at it.

Today was a sleeping morning, since we had to turn the clock. Spring time started officially, but weather outside had forgot how spring should look out. It has been raining quite a much today. Nothing at all to compare with the weather from yesterday. So it has been a perfect day to make some chores, what has to be done but also some, what I enjoyed to do.
After we came home from city and shopping, we finally mounted together a small greenhouse, what I got from my husband on Tuesday. A perfect for me to my small cultivation of flowers and other plants. Hopefully on some weeks I already can see a little bit how the result will be. Since it is first time for me to do so many plants by my self, when my expectations are not very high, but hope dies last, I have heared. So, I am happy to see how the end result will be. Of course my husband has to have some green fingers during summer, when I am not att home on a one month period. It will be interesting to see how it goes.
So, I have really enjoyed my weekend. Soon will new week start. Short week, since easter weekend, but as well very active week for me.  Some visits and coffee breaks, same time new subject at school starts and of course my oral examination in law.
I hope that all of you will also have a wonderful new easter week and will enjoy it as well as enjoy last hours of Sunday evening.
Have a nice evening!
                                 Love,
                                          Ingrit

Happy Birthday,

Today we have a small birthday dog in our house. Sally turns 8 year old lady. Small day for her. We have celebrated it bit in the evening. She have got bit good food. Inclusive wafer, since it is waferday in Sweden today. So Sally got one little one as well together with fresh strawberry. Now that happy birthday girl sleeps next to me and sees probably a nice and good dreams.
With Us, she has been last 3 years and 1 month. Time goes just very fast. Remember the day she came to us. I went to get her i Nässjö and she was bit skeptic on the trip to us. Here met she with 2 cats who showed from the beginning that they are the bosses in that household. Soon was it around and she was the boss in our home. She won everyones heart very fast and could make sad puppy eyes and all gives her bit good food. She have had good time here, we think. Seems so, when we looking her and she just enjoys time when she can run free in the forest  or just free in fields nearby house in countryside. 
Happy birthday our little heart! We love you!
Have a nice evening,
                                 Love,
                                           Ingrit

My first run,

 

 Now I have done it. I have signed up and  even paid for my first run on the 7th of may. My first run for time after more than 25 years. It is that kind of run that you can run, powerwalk or just ordinary walk on 5 kilometers. I have signed up for time taking lap, but I will see how it goes and how my health co-operates with me on that question. I have a little bit more than a month for me. 

I have planned to participate on that run since January. I decided that it is my way to celebrate that I am alive today after the complications from last year. Of course, I am not sure how my shoulder and how my problems with blood pressure and sugar will be. Good thing is, that it is close to home, hospital in case of emergency is also very close, so I decided that I have to take that chance. 

When I was younger we had run between my hometown and next town every autumn. I participated it twice, after my accident then, I had not done it. I run at school a little in physical lessons, but nothing like that. I had always note from the doctor or my mother to hand for the teacher, so that is quite a big step for me, even thought that I have been quite active.

Do I afraid or feel that I am crazy, when answer is yes. I feel that it is frightening decision, but I have to do it for myself. I have to make me to feel that I can do it and that now after all those lost kilos, I need some motivation and some goal for my training. It will be my present to me and to my happiness for life. That is small mark to me to show to myself that I have managed to get over what happened a year ago and that I am thankful to be a live and very grateful for life it self and take it as it comes with the good and bad sides. I have made peace with myself and now, I just want to celebrate for the life. That feels so good and I feel very happy. As I decided last year, 2015 is my year. Some things have happened already, some things are on the way and some things are planned to do.  As you know, is there something you want to tell me, when just feel free to contact me. All good tips and ideas are welcomed.

Have a wonderful Wednesday and enjoy sun, spring and just a good time.

                                                                                                                       Love, 

                                                                                                                                 Ingrit

Spring in my garden,

Another wonderful sunny day is on the way to be a evening and a new day. It has been nice and warm day and not that windy as it was yesterday.
Today, when I came home from the city around lunch, I got a nice surprise from the garden. First flower has start to bloom. My first crocus have start to bloom and soon will be even tulips on the way, as well as daffodils. It feels actually wonderful, since that gives an extra energy boost. Will only see how it goes, since weather has promised a little bit more snow before spring arrives in full speed.

Also have bought first strawberries for the season. Tasted as strawberries should taste. Even Sally loved them :D  A little bit more vitamins. Only thing what I love in summer is fresh strawberries. Good and tasteful. Else I just prefer to have winter and a lot of white snow. Yeeesss, I know, I am crazy, since I love snow and cold. Have missed that bit this year, but to have it now, when spring is on the way and garden starts to bloom, would like to have snow free season.

Else, I have enjoyed my day with friends, coffee and good chat. Have spoken Estonian, Swedish and just loved to spend good time among them. Most of nicest was a cuddling a small cute babygirl. Just amazing and what is most important, another day I have not done something, what has been vetoed by doctors. Only problem is, that I am happy, that I have veto time 2 weeks in the first hand. Will see, what happens after that and how it goes. Now, I just will enjoy my evening with good cup of tea and strawberries and good film. Thank you my beloved friends that you helping me to get through those weeks and possibilities for good chats and lots of coffee :P
Have a nice evening,
                                 Love,
                                           Ingrit

Wonderfyl monday,

New week with new possibilities has arrived. It feels just so good. Lot of people are complaining that it is Monday again, but people should see much more the positive sides of every day. That is what I actually have learned to do, during a last 1,7 years.
My Monday has been actually very good and very active and busy. Same will be rest of the days in this week. Good and positive things among the obligations and musts.

Nice sunny morning started with the visit to my hairdresser. It was time to cut my hair again. I really love my short hair. She is very good with styling and it suits me very well. Now I have new time booked before my long trip. Can't wait it already. It feels actually more like it is new me with the short hair. All this transformation I have had during this time period since august 2013, it feels like it is more like me. I just love it. Very confident and glad and happy person with good and warmhearted people around. Exactly, what I need to cope with all of it. Even with the negative, but if we dont have negative downs, when we forget how it feels, when we have good times.

Today I got also my long waited package from Kränku with good Easter tea and coffee. Love the tea and coffee from Kränku. Good blends. I have had teas from there before, but when I last time visited by my self that nice and cozy shop, when I could see myself in heaven. Now it was time to buy a new coffee and since they had made also their own blend for Easter, I had do buy that too for taste :P. We tasted tea now in the evening and I must admit - I defiantly do not regret, that I bought it. It tasted good. Me just love it. Tomorrow I will taste Easter coffee as well. Will see how their Påskkaffi tastes. Small present for me.

In the late afternoon me and Sally went to back to big city and meet up with Tommy. Short visit to one of the local farm shop and bought some good apples. Just love the apples. Specially to have them as the evening snack when I have to take my  strong painkillers.
Rest of the day has been nice and peaceful. Since my last schoolwork in law has been handed in and tomorrow I should get the last grade for it, so I have quiet week from school before next week starts accounting.  After that I have one more subject left and I have finished that education. I signed up to one course more, but there I have to take 2 subjects, since rest I have already and it will mean, that I have finished 2 educations. Hopefully that takes me one more step closer to my goal. 

Tomorrow I will meet my friend from Estonia for a breakfast. It will be perfect to speak Estonian again, even thought I have had very good luck with me last times. I have seen my uncle couple of times and another friend, so I have had possibility to speak Estonian couple of times. Feels very good to speak my own language. 
So, my week will be nice and peaceful as doctors have ordered. Both orthopedist and doctor in hospital and medical center has  ordered me. Only I have missed my training, but soon is this 2 weeks over and I can go back to my training. Just one thing why I count my days :P So soon I am back on track. 7 may is not very far. I must train bit, since I registrated time taking run. It will go well I have decided. It must :P
Rest of the week I have planned some more coffee breaks and visit friends, have good time with my husband, small trips and just time for me.
Now I wish you all good evening and have a nice time.
                                                                                          Love,
                                                                                                     Ingrit

Banana pancakes,

Today I tried something new for my snack meal. A banana pancakes. I had got tips some time before but I have not had chance to try it before. So today a nice sunny Sunday I tried it. I can say that they taste actually very good. Easy to make and good to eat in the same time I got all the proteins I needed.

Ingredients:

1,5 bananas
3 egg
little bit salt

I sliced bananas. Crack the eggs over sliced bananas. Crush and mix it smooth mix and fry on both sides. I had them with blueberries and glass of cold milk and I felt like i was in heaven.
That amount of mix gave me 12 pancakes. 

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

Rock the socks!

In Sweden it has been last two days rock the socks day's. It is to show the world that different is good and different is fun. It is to show the world that we support people who has Down syndrome in worlds Down syndrome day. Meaning was that people had different socks on. 

So, even me had different socks on together with my friends. I think that it was a very good idea what a 10 year old girl started to show support for her older sister who has Down syndrome. Wonderful when family holds together and support each other. 

Yesterday also was another day. Spring started. Same time in the morning it felt like spring had run away from us. It was bit minus degrees outside and snow had came back to us. But not for a very long time. Already in the afternoon it had almost smelted away and sun was out again and warmed up us. 

I tried to make best out of the day and made some spring shopping for our garden. I bought some new flower pots for the garden so that it looks bit more like out. I also bought some pansies and some daffodils so that it would be ready for the Easter holidays. It felt actually really good since after that it was really nice spring afternoon outside. Even thought it was bit cold and windy. Under the sun it was on the same time nice and warm and nothing else matters. 

I know that I love winter but even spring is very nice because all is starting to wake up and it gets nice and green. That is one reason why I love spring. 

In the evening me and my dear husband visited Kristine church and listened a chamber choir Voces had a concert. Nice way to spend hour and half in the evening with good classic music. We decided that we will definitely go even next time they have a concert in May. 

Now it is time for me to rest and to enjoy my evening at home in front of the tv and to look Harry Potter film. 

Have a nice evening and enjoy your day! 

                                                                 Love,

                                                                            Ingrit 

Spring is here,

Hello spring! Today it is not perhaps a perfect first day of spring, but it has been many wonderful days before and soon nice spring day's are back again. Bit rain and cold belongs to spring. In that way, we can enjoy spring weather much more. Outside all is growing. Soon will trees have green blades, gardens will be blooming. Amazing time. I love usually winter, but even spring has it's wonderful moments. Snowdrops are blooming already together with hepatics. Soon we can see blooming cherry trees and other flowers and trees in bloom. That is the most wonderful with spring. After that I can wait autumn with it's colors and when winter again. This winter had not that much snow, hopefully next winter will be more colder and more snow. I have some thoughts and plans for next winter. Same way as I have some plans already for this spring.

It has been very busy days and much to do. Both positive and negative, but if we do not have negative days, when we can't enjoy the good times, because, we do just feel that everything is okay in my opinion. If we have mixed days, we understand and enjoy good days much more and appreciate the life in totally different way. Yes, it is my opinion, since I have found finally sun behind the clouds, what has been darken my days way too long. Time after my last operation has been a very big change for me and I have been start to be more like I was before my car accident and big life changes after that. Now I am happy and glad person again and it feels good. That does not mean, that I do not have days, where I am not down or something negative has not happen, but I appreciate life in whole different way.

This week I have spend some nights in hospital. Free food as I love to say, but also good to be there, so that doctors can find out what is this, what makes that I get the issues as it is. At least I have confidence to the doctors in my own local medical center and in our regional hospital in Jönköping. Now it is just to wait and see the final result how it will be. 
Have had a problems again with my shoulder, but a bit of it is perhaps my own fault. I can't sit quiet in one place and not to do something. So those last pains are my own caused and result of that is that I have to take it easy last 2-3 weeks and when I will meet my orthopedic again. Only thing I miss is my training. I really have fell in love to crossfit, but soon I am there again in trainings local. Crossfit is perfect trainings form for me and soon is my first spring run also. Can't wait for it. 1,5 month and I can say that I have challenged myself for a first time after a very long time to run. It feels good and i feel like I have butterflies in my stomach.

I also love that there is fairness in life.  Love to say that Karma is never forget someone even thought it sometimes it takes bit longer time, but it never forget someone. So better is to be towards others as you want life to be against you. Sooner or later the fairness for things in life comes. Muaahhahahahahaaa.

Now I will need to make some preparations and when pack the car and Sally and go to city. First will be time to meet my friends behind a cup of coffee and have a very good chat. Have missed to see my friends. After that in the afternoon it will be short visit to my father-in-law. Finally I can give him a small present from Gotland I bought for him among with some other things. It will be good to see him again. Also because I am very good to frighten my family and my close friends with my hospital visits once in a while. So, it will be good to show, that I am almost ok again. Just bit recovery is needed, but that can be managed. Just have to write my last work in private law in school and after that I have 1 week school free and almost 2 weeks to my oral examination in law. Not much left in school and then I have finished my 2 educations and validate more my university education from Estonia. Feels actually very good. Now it is time for me! Well needed time!

Have a nice day and enjoy your day!
                                                          Love,
                                                                   Ingrit!

Happy International Women's Day!

Today we celebrate all over the world International Women's Day. The day, what so many perhaps take for granted and does not understand how lucky we are or just forget which possibilities we have in this world. How safe we can feel and what we can do.

On Thursday this week I visited Womens shelter home/safe house in Jönköping and handed over the check for 62000 crowns, what Lions Club Jönköping had gathered together in December 2014 with Jönköpings Lucia. That money will be used to summer trip for women and children who lives in safe house with protected identity. That money will be well used, we know that, since we meet the leader from the house in November in our club meeting. She told us, how they had used the money from Lucia 2013 what went as well to them.
That shows how unfair world we live. Of course there is also the men, who lives under same conditions as women, but still often is women in the weakest situation and needing protections and help. Especially when children are in picture. So sad that those kind of living arrangement is needed at all.

In the same time in other countries in the world is till places, where women have to hide themselves, they have no rights to do anything - to go to the streets, to show their faces, to vote and so much more. Those times we, who have it better, we forget it what we have and what kind of opportunities we let life to miss. Women usually feel that they are less worth than men, but it is not true, but we feel that we are weaker and that we don't have much power or strength, but in true, we have it. We just need a will to do it and to use it. Yeessss, many thinks, that it is easy to say, but the truth is, that it is not. I have been self one of those, who have followed the majority for a way too long time and not believed in me. Now, this times are over. Has been over more than a year and I can say, that I feel free and I feel alive. Often it is just hard to take that first step. After that is done, it is much more easier to take second and third step.  When first steps are taken, first road in your own choice is followed, when you can feel the real freedom. The same is with decisions. After we take one decision of our own, we feel much better. Hopefully the man dominated world will come as well to 21th century and will and world of the women will be more respected. Unfortunately I do not believe much on that, since it feels that in many countries men are not willing to change it. Sad, but true, but still we can hope and dream. Like one of the last years Nobel Peace price winner Malala Yousafzai said: "All what is need to scare a Taliban is a young schoolgirl and a books". A little bit more about her shortly can be read in Wikipedia or her blog or her found. I must admit, that I am impressed of that young woman and her strength and willpower. If you truly want something and you have will, when you also will get it!

So, we should be more noticed the possibilities we have, choices we can take and freedom, what we can enjoy. Something what we should not take for granted in our life. So let us enjoy today and celebrate a day for us. Perhaps be bit more pampered at home as well from our men and partners.

Have a wonderful sunny day,
                                               Love,
                                                         Ingrit 

New week, New month,

I can see that time just flies. When you are doing something and you love and like it, then time just goes faster and faster even thought that it still goes on same tact as usually.
It has been time with Lions meetings, I have have traveled in Gotland, met my friends and studied as well.

In Lions I have had our board meeting. Day after we had regional meeting and latest in the weekend I spent a  day with partners in Lions while their husbands was on meeting in Jönköping. It has been good hours I have had possible to spend and most of all, that has been giving me a lot. It is always good to meet a persons I do not know, but also people I know already. I love to be a part of Lions, since it is very giving and in the same time I can be part to help others. It also has helped me with my integration here in Sweden.

I also followed with my husband to Gotland when he had is business trip to there. For me it was first time to visit Gotland. When we was on our honeymoon in Öland and visited castle in Borgholm, then person who worked there told me that nature in Öland and Gotland is same as it is in islands in Estonia. I can say that it was almost same. At least enough that my homesickness got a bit relieved. Difference was all those stones, what was in Gotland. Those kind of stones we don't have in Estonia but it is bit sad, since those was magnificent. I saw so many wonderful places, spent a lots of hours out in nature, climbed and took a long walks. My pour dog was so tired in every evening while we was there. On Wednesday after I had checked out from hotel, I spent several hours to look around in Visby. It is the  only Hansa city in Sweden and that is bit surprising since Sweden is old country and has history way long back, plus Sweden is much bigger country when Estonia is. Estonia in the same time has 3 Hansa cities. Overall. I loved to be in Visby. If to visit places outside Visby killed my homesickness in one way and to visit Visby it self killed homesickness on the other way. I felt like Visby was Tallinn, just much more pressured together.

I had opportunity to visit a good tea and coffee shop. I have got tea from there before from my husband, so now when I had a possibility by my self to visit that heaven and heaven it is. All what you need for a coffee break, you get from there - tea, coffee, cups, treats, marmalade and so much more. Heavens name is Kränku. If you want to get part of good tea and coffee, when just visit their homepage.

The other thing I tried while I was there was a saffron-pancake. I got to know that it was typical for that region and something that everyone should try. It is traditionally served with whipped cream and blackberry marmalade. Last one is also very traditional for Gotland since it seems that only Gotland has those berries. All in all I liked it and with tea from Kränku, my coffee-break was perfect. Just what I needed before our trip back towards our home in Norrahammar. I must say, me and saffron, I just love it :) So that saffron-pancake was really something I loved it and I got even recipe back to home, so I will try to make it home as well. Just love it.

I also have had quite busy time in school during those weeks, I have been not wrote into my blog. Had oral examination in Business Economy - Specialization. I am very satisfied with my grade. Got the next best grade, only small disappointment was that if I think of word specialization, I think that we get deeper knowledge of the subject, but it was just 2 subjects put together and still in the shallow touching of the subject. Well now that subject is over and law has been started. First test and assignment have been handed in. Test went quite well. Result fro the assignment has not graded yet. Hopefully soon I will that grade as well.

The best call came still yesterday. For a while ago I wrote that I was on trying pass for crossfit training. Yesterday I got a phone call from one of the boys who is owner of the place. They were interested to know that I have decided after the last time I visited them. I told that I want to join with them. Usually they have a course on-tramp to all new beginners. The new group started on Saturday but when I could not start with them, since I had Lions errand to do. We discussed also bit about it and we came to the conclusion that if I am interested to join them, when they will sit down and talk bit with each other about to make a special program for me. I got very happy. That does not happen very often that gym takes consideration the persons condition. They do and that  made me feel very sure that I have chose right. I will get to learn bit different program instead what is suitable with my shoulder. That felt actually most positive that they took my damaged shoulder to the consideration and still I am welcome in their locals. That made me feel warm in heart. Just liked the feeling. So, now I have mailed some dates and times for us to meet and I can start to train again. It will be perfect since first run is already on 2 months. Perfect for little me.
Now it is time for lunch and after that preparations for Lions members meeting in the evening. It has been a wonderful other half of February and hopefully my march will be perfect as well. I plan to have it at least as good as possible.

Have a lovely day!
                              Love,
                                       Ingrit