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The year is coming to its end. 2009. A good year. A fantastic one actually. I can only hope 2010 will be as good as this past one.This blog is also coming to its end. It's been inevitable really. For many reasons I don't want to write here any more....

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Sohoho, ho ho ho, it's December 1st (again) and while NaBloPoMo has wrapped up without my participation, another month has come and gone. Not that it was a borning month.But I shall rather not digress and focus on the aforementioned list.Vaccination. H1N1. Swineflu. Bacon fever. Call it whatever you want,...

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Gosh, it's been ages since I blogged. It's not a new thing for me to let quite some time pass between blog posts, but this time it's totally unintentional. I WANT TO BLOG. I even have stuff to say, I just can't do it somehow. Some kind of blog-block.But pragmatic...

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There is a lot of reading going on here at casa Greenbranch. Stella in particular has a new-found love for everything Barbapapa. It all started with her getting a cute little dress with a Barbapapaprint from her aunt Josefine. Since then all we hear is "Barbaklänning"*. You ask her what...

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Home alone. That's what I am. Jonatan is at work, Stella in pre-school, and I am sitting here at my desk with a lot of thoughts in my head. It's all quiet if you disregard the city noise outside the oppen windows.I want to find a job. I need to...

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So my blog turned four years old yesterday. I have been blogging 4 years. Man. That's quite some time. Things were very different four years ago. My life was different. I was different. I even had a different name back then, as did this blog. I was a couple of...

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Last post I wrote about late summer. By now, a week later, late summer is so over. It's autum. Fall - if you want to call it that. The leaves are, indeed, falling. The babe picks them up as if they are some grand price and proudly carries them around...

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Nothing more says late summer to me than Swedish blueberries. I love them. Everything about them. They are smaller and darker than the big ones one usually finds in the shops abroad. They aren't as sweet as the regular ones, but they are just perfect in every way. Or maybe...

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My parents just left after having spent the 9 days with us. 9 days mostly with Stella (and of course some with us too).Jonatan and I had been invited to two weddings, two weekends in a row and needed a babysitter. Since my parents stayed the week in between the...

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20 months. Almost. I have wanted to write an update about our babe since she turned one and a half years old, but as usual life was too busy to really spend time blogging. But I'm going to make an effort now. I draw a lot of blogging inspiration from...

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I know I've been a bad blogger and I'm not even attempting a really long and deep kind of post. Instead I'm following my dad's request for some vacation pictures.I uploaded quite many pics to my Flickr account. Click here for an overview of the pictures or view them as...

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The babe is one and a half years old today. Hooorrayyy for our big girl. She really is, such a big girl. By now the baby in her is all but gone. She is a tiny little person, doing lot's of grown-up things, like drinking from a cup, eating from...

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So summer has finally arrived here in Sweden. And as it seems it is going to stick around for a bit. Lovely.We have been hanging at the local beach these past days. The babe looooves the sand and the water and everything connected with beachlife, especially ice cream. Who can...

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We've been away to celebrate midsummer with Anna and Erik plus kids in Särö this weekend. 4 adult, 4 children, one cat. Lovely as ever. See for yourself...On the way to Särö, pit stop at the Köttclown'sMaj and Stella playing with strawberry boxes :D...

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This morning, while all three of us were cuddling in our big bed Jonatan was teaching Stella some new Swedish words. She's in such a verbal phase right now, she tries hard to repeat any new words we teach her. So here's what I overheard this morning while I was...

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...because we are going biking.Stella loves it!!!...

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Today is my birthday. Happy birthday to myself. I have always liked my birthday. Somehow I find the idea of my special day nice. And of course the idea of eating cake without remorse. And ice cream. I had plenty of both today.Today was not only my birthday but also...

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Since the beginning of the year we had planned to visit my parents in Germany for this years Easter celebration. We had plans to wear a cute pink dress (Stella) go egg hunting (Stella), meet friends (moi), eat a gazillion chocolate eggs (all of us) and enjoy being spoiled rotten...

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I'm a seller. Selling real things. Not second-hand or vintage stuff on a flea market. I made things and am now selling them. Am proud of myself and scared shitless. What if nobody wants to buy what I sell? I will just wait and find out, right? Click on the...

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March 28th 2009, 8:30-9:30 pmRead more about Earth Hour here and here....

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It's been a month now that I have been unemployed, or rather I still find myself in the period of notice, still employed but not working.It's been a crazy month, fantastic, busy, sick (flue again, poor Stella ear infection), traveling, etc. I made big plans, but have yet to fulfill...

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A first for me: blogging in Swedish. Please disregard slightly wrong grammar and spelling mistakes."Jag är med o tävlar om ett hemligt paket från Moonkids till ett värde av 600kr hos Tant Ulrika. Tävla HÄR du oxå!"Jag är ingen tävlingsmänniska direkt. Men när det gällar gratis barnkläder. Gratis barnkläder av...

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I'm so so so tired of being sick. I'm actually better by now but poor little Stella is really sick, coughing, snotty and some other kind of pain that makes her cry and feverish. Might be her ears, or a throat ache, maybe some more molars coming in. Probably everything...

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I colored my hair yesterday. Turned out crap. Almost a bit reddish. Jonatan tells me it's nice. Not convinced though. Need a hair-change soon. I think I know what I want. It involves bangs. I miss my bangs.Winston (the car) didn't make it through bilprovningen yesterday. Apparently a gasoline leakage....

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