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Abundance of Colours

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Family, Our garden | 14 Comments »

Tomorrow it'll be June. Today however, summer arrived! Gorgeous, right? The garden is an amazing place at the moment - we have flowers in all colours. Today the temperatures went up to around 23 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow is supposed to be even better... And my ...

In the woods

Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Family | 3 Comments »

Our Saturday was pretty relaxed. Except of course for the fact that I decided to make a clown costume for Frida, so that she too could go dressed properly for Fastelavn on Sunday. I'll show you that later on.   We went ...

Christmas

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Christmas, Day to day, Family | 4 Comments »

We said our goodbyes to the Christmas tree yesterday evening, as we lit the candles and enjoyed the tree once more.   This afternoon, I packed the decorations in boxes, put them away, and moved the tree outside. We were so worried ...

Impressions from a weekend by the North Sea

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Family, Outings | 11 Comments »

    Sea, sand, and beautiful weather. This past weekend was spent at a summer cottage in Vejers Strand by the North Sea, meeting up with a part of Mads' family that we don't get to see very often. The North Sea is ...

Back from Greece – and I’m an aunt!

Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Family, Holiday, Special occasions, Travel | 16 Comments »

I know - I'm not that fast, but we're here! We got home very late Tuesday night - or perhaps I should say Wednesday morning. We did have a very nice trip to Greece - although it wasn't one without challenges.   The place was ...

Summer – 2nd round!

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Holiday, Our garden, Outings, Ronja | 8 Comments »

Last week was a true family-week, Mads had the week off, and we enjoyed some beautiful weather once again. The first anemone japonica came out - this is it right here - it's one of the highlights of my summer, ...

Midsummer Evening

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Special occasions | 7 Comments »

Monday evening was Midsummer Evening. This specific evening has always been a favourite of mine - I love the fact that we gather around bonfires throughout the country and sing "Midsommervisen" - the Midsummer song. Adults and children form circles around ...

Birthday and pool

Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in Birthdays, Day to day, Frida, Our garden, Ronja, The house | 12 Comments »

Finished!   Well except for the fact that we still need to paint the footings of the house and install the new downpipe at the front and the new front door. And except for the fact, that we would really like a ...