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