it's growing

Hello everyone.

Here is the actual reason for our move to Sweden.

Many of you already knew but now it's official.

The due date is September 22 and then we are expecting two boys, yes we are having twins!

Today at the midwife we could hear the heart beat :-) It was great! We are looking forward to meeting them!

I love swedish summer

 11:15 pm, still not dark outside but time for bed

 3:38am, not all that dark either and time to visit the bathroom

Past weekend we went to Norrköping to celebrate mother's day! We were staying in the summer house that my family is taking care of and it was a great weekend to just relax and enjoy! Summer was visiting us with warm and nice weather. May is for sure the best month of the year with all the flowers and all the green. It's funny though how the temperature can change! The day after we came back to Märsta it was down to 10°C. Today the clouds are dark and heavy, don't think it will take long before they show their ability. But that is all part of Swedish summer -you'll never know what you get...

 Fun details from the house. Old wallpapers, as it should be in a summer house! And a picture that has been in our house since I was a kid, a Swedish version of when Jesus made water into wine.

What have happened? -A lot has happened!
Kenneth arrived safely to Sweden, he and a friend was driving the 3000km from Thassos to Stockholm in two and a half days.
We now live in Märsta, a northen suburb to Stockholm.
Kenneth got a fulltime job in Märsta where I as well am working 15 hours a week. Our workplace has also provided with this appartment, fantastic! It's Gods grace how doors has been opened for us.
We also have the privileged to share the appartment with Josefina. Josefina is the niece of Kenneth that came to Stockholm in April because of a work opportunity. She's a easy going and fun person. We don't see too much of her though, since she's working fulltime and is dedicated to her exercises on the climbing wall.

Look at this, our new home! Nice and homy isn't it! We are very thankful for generous friends and family that has given us furnitures needed to make this our home!
Starting to get settle and feeling good. Still keeping our eyes opened for something of our own though, since we're now are renting through our work. But it is hard to think of moving now that we got it in order.

 

That was the nice and tidy pictures, the ones that makes us feel at home and organized. :-)
Truth is though that not all the boxes are unpacked yet... And everything didn't get that organized yet...
Our balcony (and all the windows) are in the north overviewing a big parking. In the hall we don't have a hanger but only two screws on the wall and a chair that you are lucky if you can sit in :-)
But it will all come together sooner of later, every thing has to take it's time.

 

Long time no see

Now I have been in Sweden for two weeks already. Kenneth is still in Greece and the move will not be complete until he is here as well. I miss him! but Harald and I have arrived safely.
We had a long trip, leaving Thassos at seven in the morning and arriving in Norrköping 20 hours later. But all went well.
Then I've been staying with mom so I've been well cared for. She's making sure I never need to be hungry and Harald is also happy with her hospitality, he's enjoying the fresch fish.
I been busy getting registrated, visiting different offices and getting an insurance for the car Kenneth will use to get our stuff home. Then we celebrated the easter time (with way to much candy, sad to say but in Sweden I think easter is mostly about candy... or maybe it's just me...) But it's also a time to enjoy time with family and foremost to remember the life and forgiveness that is given, reconciliation with God and that is great!
But now I left Harald with mum and made my way to Stockholm where I will be working some and hopefully have time to meet with some friends.

In Greece Kenneth is busy taking care of a team from a bibelschool. And if you want to know more of what's going on down there you can look at the link below. The team has a blog and will give you some updates of what they are up to. It's all in Swedish though.
grisfraelsarna.blogg.se

I'll miss you Thassos

Since this is my last weekend in Greece :-( , tomorrow I'm off for Sweden :-) we were having a small goodbye party Friday night. It was a bit sad but great to meet with everyone and have a time to say "I'll miss you". Kenneth and I been cooking and baking so that our tummies also would enjoy the evening. I made "Swedish cubes" as someone called them (filled with ham, youghurt, majonais and wasabi, they turned out well if I may say so) and then we had other bits and pieces. I really didn't expect to get anything but to just enjoy the evening together. But they were overwhelming me/us with gifts and sweet words. Thank you everyone! I'm happy we were able to have this time together!

And I'm very happy for my time in Greece. I've met lots of lovely people, learned to live in the moment, seen new thing of God, understand new sides of myself, been enjoying the beautiful landscape... I'll always carry a piece of Greece in my heart.

Greek spring

Many people have been asking about what the spring is like down here.
Me myself I don't think it's as much spring as you expect it to be in Greece, it has been many cold and gray days and you have to keep your shirt and jacket on.
This past week, however, the sun started to show itself and it's lovely! It immediately becomes warm and pleasant, sometimes I even had to take my jacket off. Young people go, as young people like to do, in the t-shirt and do not want their jackets but it's not really that warm in the air. But as I said, in the sun, it is very nice!
The main difference from Sweden I think is that the temperature remains mild even at night and this welcomes life into flowers and trees. I were walking around in our neighbourhood and documented a proportion of all spring splendor that dressed our island for the the National Day, which yesterday was celebrated with parades and partys.

This flower is a sign that it is almost Easter, it is marvelous, delicate and colorful. You can find big areas full of this beauty, but this lonely one is growing in our garden.
And then a couple of pictures of the neighbors down from our house. The little lamb bleats to catch up with the rooster crowing. The donkey is, however, mostly quiet and seems to be a gentle creature.

Another sign of spring is our first barbecue on the balcony that we enjoyed last weekend.
And! the snow is gone from the mountains. :-)

The last box

We already done a lot of packing. Still some left but when we get a truck that will take our stuff we are ready to load. I realized some days ago though that I need some papers from a binder (papers I need to get a job)... The papers are in one of the boxes... but which one? Today we moved them all around, opened them and well it was not in the last box left to look inside -it was in the third last one...

Ok lesson learnd: don't pack your important paper!