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Giddy up

05.01.2019 by Christy E // Leave a Comment

Here we are again trying to get a blog going. It’s funny because I think about making this blog a real thing but I just never put myself out there. So afraid to have people think I am fake or trying too hard. Today is the day, letting those fears drop. I also started a lot of other things today. For example, I have worked for the second day and a row. I am sure you are thinking wow two days big deal. I know its actually hilarious to see myself type that. The thing is I borderline the “not fat but not skinny” after kids. I care but I don’t want to do the work. Well, that is over….. big time. I am coming to an age that they call “middle age”. In my head, it’s now or never and it is only going to get harder if I don’t start now. I lost a baby in January (more on that later). It wakes you up!

The alarms are ringing. A lot of alarms! I feel like there has been a huge awareness lately to how short life is. I have so many dreams and goals I still want to do. I want to die trying to live the best life. I am not talking about things and vacations, I am talking about daily life. I want to live the best life daily, in normal things. I am so tired of feeling tired. I want life-giving conversations. Slow evenings with the husband. I want to enjoy my kids discovering this big beautiful world. I want to love people and make them feel special just the way they are. I want to walk in daily gratitude, I want to be looking for ways to serve around me.

We are still living north and loving it. It has been a huge change but overall I think for the better. Besides missing friends and loved ones.

The fun news for May so far is my mother-in-love is moving here in two weeks. I am so excited. She is amazing and I can’t wait for my kids to have family here with them. Hoping the father-in-love will also join us eventually.

Its been an amazing winter, but so excited to have summer.

The summer liv list (which I am sure I will be adding to) :

  • Camping in Norway (near the beach)
  • Stand up paddle boarding in the lake
  • Lots of bike rides
  • Plants some flowers with the girls
  • Lots of ice cream
  • Picking flowers and seeing if we can paint them
  • Finally, get Majkens US passport
  • Weekend trip to Stockholm
  • Go to museums near us

Do you have an summer plans? We also have a lot of house projects we need to get done.

Categories // Family Tags // alarms, blogging, Family, giddy up, joy, motherblogger, motherhood, simpleliving, thankfulness

Happy New Year

01.12.2016 by Christy E // Leave a Comment

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Categories // Family Tags // 2016, christmas, COCO, coco joy, Country Life, Eriksson Family, Family, god jul, Gothenburg, happy new year, leleboy, majken ann, merry christmas, Mini Vikings, snow, Sweden, Swedish Country, swedish winter, winter, winter wonderland

Doughnut a first

10.31.2015 by Christy E // Leave a Comment

 

Yes, this was Coco’s first time having a doughnut.  Lets say it was a hit and it hasn’t been the last doughnut since. I know horrible. Not really things I would like to be feeding the kids…….but sometimes they just scream our name.

They funny thing is I never ate doughnuts in America.  Maybe I was never around people that loved them.  At university we would make midnight doughnut runs to get fresh doughnut during finals at midnight.  Other then that nothing much.  When I got to Sweden people would often say  I got you some doughnuts (because I was American).  I honestly thought it a bit strange. I had never thought about the origin of doughnuts but I never really thought of it as American. Do you think its an American thing?  I know media in America portrays cops eating them, but I have never actually seen a police man eating one.

Anyways I looked it up while writing this post.  Yes it technically it is an American creation……. this settles it.

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I found this little information on doughnuts and thought it was to cool not to share.

National Doughnut Day started in 1938[1] as a fund raiser for Chicago‘s The Salvation Army. Their goal was to help the needy during the Great Depression, and to honor The Salvation Army “Lassies” of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers.

Soon after the US entrance into World War I in 1917, The Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. The mission concluded that the needs of US enlisted men could be met by canteens/social centers termed “huts” that could serve baked goods, provide writing supplies and stamps, and provide a clothes-mending service. Typically, six staff members per hut would include four female volunteers who could “mother” the boys. These huts were established by The Salvation Army in the United States near army training centers.

About 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to France. Because of the difficulties of providing freshly baked goods from huts established in abandoned buildings near to the front lines, the two Salvation Army volunteers (Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance) came up with the idea of providing doughnuts. These are reported to have been an “instant hit”, and “soon many soldiers were visiting The Salvation Army huts”. Margaret Sheldon wrote of one busy day: “Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, 700 cups of coffee.”

Soon, the women who did this work became known by the servicemen as “Doughnut Dollies”.

from wikipedia

Pretty cool, right?  What a comfort food for the men serving.  I love history.

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Categories // Family Tags // american, american tradition, COCO, cocojoy, doughnuts, Family, fika, Lei, leleboy

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