Merry Christmas! God Jul! Joyeux Noël!

Christmasgifts wrapped, candies done, Christmas tree decorated, bags are packed - Värmland here we come!

And I'm almost symmetrical again! Merry Christmas to all of You!

We want to emigrate!

It's no wonder Sweden was populated kind of late if you compare to other parts of the world were you don't spend 6 months in darkness. Sweden is wonderful, have great nature, a marvelous system for parental leave and wonderful daycare system. But Sweden is bloody awful between October and March. I have no other way of saying this but this time of the year we are always on the edge of emigrating. November month had 5 sun hours. 5 sun hours. It's nowhere near enough. So after a dark depressing November came December that could have started better. No snow to light up the darkness. Just an appointment to operate out my wisdom tooth that's been bugging me for over a year (why do you get wisdom teeth anyway, what's the freakin' point?). Well, to do a long story short here is just after the operation when I was full with sedative and local anesthesia and thought what this wasn't to bad:

And here's 2 days later, filled with pain, cheek swollen like a tennis ball and on sick-leave:

What a terrible make-over!

After being home from work one week I finally managed to work one day and then it was time for the children to get sick. Well, at least to sick to go to daycare but healthy enough to turn our house up side down, here's our living room after the girls redecorating:

What keeps me going is the thought of that we will, in less than one month, be tanning on a beach in Dubai. Let nothing get in our way...