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All in Life in Sweden
So here we are, just over one year into our Swedish adventure. Actually, it is starting to feel less like an adventure and more like normal, routine, everyday. This is what happens when you up sticks: it takes a year.
Finally, after three very long months I can share news of a Very Important Project.
Right now there are papers spread all over my desk, a half-packed suitcase blocking the bed, and a pair or bright red wellies drying in the oven, but from tomorrow it'll be lake trips, picnics and al fresco knitting. 3yo mini-tornado allowing.
A morning after our first winter in Sweden, THE morning. The light is back, and I wake up to the sun’s delightful trickery.
Nine months in, we're no longer complete newbies. The winter has passed, the sun and the light and the colours are back. There are windswept barbeques to be held, forest paths to be explored, and some serious thinking about the future to do. Or maybe not.
Weekend Baking = an easy repertoire of cheese scones and muffins, made by a three-year-old who talks of ducks and diggers in the same sentence. The best kind of baking.
Our 10-day holiday is over, and so starts the usual dance with the inbox, the to-do lists (always multiples), the various mismatched socks and half-finished crochet projects dotted around the house. What to tackle first...
Sandpits. Essential to daily life with kids in Sweden. Sandpits at school, after school, at weekends. Sand everywhere.
When we lived in Milan, we knew winter would be more or less finished by the end of February. In the south of Sweden, however? Not so much. We're well into March now and I've just woken up to snow outside the window again. Still, Spring is a time of new beginnings, which means new colourways and patterns chez Emmy+LIEN.
