Thursday, January 25, 2007

Early morning call

I was just woken by a phonecall. At 6.45 am. Now you'd think I'd be a bit upset by this, but it was my dear, dear friends Alice and Siaan, calling from Australia, and no matter what hour, I'm always delighted to hear from them! :) Apparently they assumed that I'd be up at the crack of dawn, being a mother and all, but dawn hasn't really come yet... Winter in sweden means breakfast in the dark. And the lovely miss Ester enjoys sleeping in the morning, sometimes I have to wake her up at 10.30 am...

Anyway, the girls informed me that they're checking this blogg for updates, and it makes me feel a bit guilty, I haven't really written much here... But I'll do better!

Right now, I think I'll go back to bed though... but please enjoy Ester's first appearance in the news: http://direktpress.se/uppsala/files/ut_0703.pdf Article on page 33, Ester is acting as "baby in car seat". Very cute, don't you think? :)




Monday, January 01, 2007

Happy New Year!

Christmas with Ester was great, although she didn't really appreciate her gifts... but I surely enjoyed opening all the presents :)

Celebrating new years eve was a little less successful. We went to a party at a friends place just down the street, and everybody was so happy to see Ester. We had a great buffet, and Ester slept for a while, but at 10 pm she woke up and got upset... refused to go back to sleep, and didn't really want to join the party either, so we decided to go home. Once back home in her own bed she fell asleep again, and we looked at the fireworks from our balcony enjoying a glass of sparkling wine before going to bed. Nice though :) But next year we'll probably plan a little less partying... perhaps celebrate with my sisters and their children.

To add it all up; 2006 was probably one of my best years ever. Finding out we were pregnant, celebrating Em's 30th birthday, Barcelona for easter, soccer world championships in Germany in june, my sisters wedding in july... september wasn't too much fun, but was well compensated with the arrival of Ester in october! A trip to Austria in november and celebrating Ester's first christmas. And hopefully 2007 will be just as good, or even better! :)