A few years ago Elsa (then aged 5 or 6) decided to cut her hair. A day before the school photographer was arriving she cut her fringe to about 2 mm. With big tears she told me of her regret but it was not a lot I could do about it. When I came to pick Elsa up at school the next day the teacher told me that she asked Elsa if she cut her hair herself and she got a serious answer;
- No, my mum did this. She wanted me to look good at the school picture.
While going through some paper in the office I found that school picture today. On the picture I see a girl with a wide smile and a crazy hairstyle. I think it is the best school picture ever taken because it is so much Elsa.
The last few days she has spent drawing her own cartoons, baking cakes, helping me to cook and found a wide range of new recipes on the internet that she wants to use. She has been sewing, swimming between the rain showers in the lake and now she is off with Jochem to go fishing with the boat. Ingrid is visiting her school friend Wilma in Strömstad (town on the west coast of Sweden) for a few days and Nils is spending every possible hour with his best, best friend Daniel. Elsa has no need to play with others right now. She finds her own tasks and paths in a way we do not always understand but she is enjoying the holiday fully. With ten weeks of school holiday I hope they will remember their school holidays in the same way I do.
Endless days filled with play, games, books and visitors. Days that never seemed to end.
June was filled with sunshine and blue sky’s but in true Swedish spirit the rain arrived with the start of the main holiday season in July. Jochems project in Italy was put on hold for a month so now we are all enjoying a holiday together (and it looks like he has work through the fall). With or without rain we all seem to fall in to the holiday spirit.
Lets see where summer takes us…
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