A fat but cozy mother

The moose hunting season in Sweden has started and I just got an e-mail informing me that a suggested meeting date was absolutely impossible as everyone will be off in two weeks time (I guess the season in Ulricehamn starts in two weeks).

With the continues rain outside I have no wish to be outside and my colleagues told me that I just have to get used to this weather from now on. Autumn is rain and winter should be snow but if we are unfortunate it will be rain this winter as well. Last winter was much too warm and with the current climate developments it does not look as if we are in for a cold winter. Nils asks me every day when the winter will start as he is dreaming about his birthday in December.

I had my family visiting this weekend which was really nice. It is clear that little Ellen (8 months) has our family genes. No one can survive in my family if they don’t talk a lot and Ellen, who does not talk much yet, already knows how to sing and make all kind of sounds. Especially in the early morning hours :)! She is absolutely adorable and the only problem we had was the timesharing of holding her.

Tomorrow I am off to Stockholm for a two day Interreg conference (an EU fond for cooperation between the Nordic countries) and the coming month I am working on a number of applications for different EU related projects. Jochem will be off to the US for two weeks followed by a week in Australia so I will not travel anywhere for some time. I am helping the girls and their friends making pillows and dresses with the new sewing machine and spending the evenings reading for Nils. Yesterday while reading, he said with a sweet voice:
- You are fat and cozy!
When he gets older I´ll tell him to avoid these kind of statements around women but for a mum I guess it is okey!