Easter

Hi!
Today it´s Tomb Sweeping Day here in China. It´s nearly the same as All Saints Day in Sweden.
A couple a days ago we received a package from Sweden. It was alot of things! For example easter crafts....It was very welcome as our Easter decorations from Sweden is stuck in customs. It will arrive next week...
Hugo and Gustav painted the eggs and we hung the eggs in the window...Very nice...

It will feel really weird not to celebrate Easter as usual. Usually we are at a place called Stocken. It´s a small fishing village on the rim of the Bohuslän Archipelago. Well well I think it will be great here in Nanjing also....
I´m also thinking on start writing in swedish again. We´ll see about that...;))

Bye, bye from now!

Time flies

Time really flies here in China!
We have now lived in this house for 1 1/2 week and it feels so much longer. We take small steps to build a home. Yesterday we went to a flower market and bought flowers for the hole house. What a different it makes!
Next week we´ll get the curtains. Hopefully then we all sleep a little bit longer than half past 5 in the mornings....
I´m glad we have IKEA in Nanjing! Yesterday was the fifth time we were there and it was certainly not the last :). It feels like my second home....

This weekend Jonas employed took us out for dinner in a typical Nanjing restaurant. There were over 30 pieces of dishes to try. Some were almost edible (my opinion) and some I couldn`t even look at...

Jonas tried an egg...a special egg...half egg and half chicken...Yaurk!

The kids thought the birdhead were funny...

Today we´ll go to supermarket and buy bikes for the boys.

See U soon!

The China way....

Or no way.
It´s hard to get use to the chinese culture. I´m not shore I ever will.
Everything takes time and it´s allways complicate.
But one thing I enjoy very much is that now, with an housekeeper "Ayi, I´ve got plenty of time to spend with my boys. I can sit down and play with them and don´t botter about normal things like cooking, cleaning and stuff.;))
I´ll fall asleep any second now so...bye, bye!

Nihao!

I don´t know how to begin writing today....It´s so much I want to say.

Anyway, we arrived to China Monday the 19th of March. The boys managed the flight very well and sleept nearly 7 hours. We stayed in a hotel the first three days and while Jonas where working, me and the kids joined the kidz club ( a small playground inside the hotel) and jumped in the pool. We had a great time but it´s tough to live on a small area with no own toys for the kids.

This is outside our house!

We live in Evian Valley, Nanjing. I will show you the inside when it´s ready...;). I think we´ll have to go to IKEA several times before that.

We went there yesterday and bougt some things. I felt VERY swedish when entering IKEA.

It looked like home....

I knew it would be some language problems but, I didn´t realize that the people here like to complicate every thing they do. For exemple...

We wanted to deliver some things that we bought and went to the "Delivery desk". It took a half an hour to write the address down and then Jonas had to go to another desk to get a receipt and then go back to the first desk and check something else....

Everyhing takes time and nothing is simple....

Bye from now....

Toothless and stomach flu

On his 6th birthday he felt a loose tooth and a week later he lost it...He was so happy! And off course the tooth fairy came to visit at night...The day after he lost the first one, he felt a new loose tooth so now we just wait....

This weekend I haven't packed. I´ve been busy to clean up after this little man....No fun at all! But I think I did a great job and felt very satisfied with my achievement! Hugo did a great job too! His big responsibility was to keep Douglas away from the "goodies" on the floor while I put Gustav in the shower!
Today it´s back to normal and I have did some packing....
On Wednesday Jonas is joining us again for helping out with packing and move things to the rentalstore.
Can´t believe that we´re moving on sunday....

See U!!!

Countdown...

Jonas have been in Nanjing now for over a week and it feels like forever!
I really miss him...
My mission now is to pack all our things. So far so good. It´s hard when the spring is knocking on the door..;))
Thats why I and the boys spend more time outside than packing inside.
It feels that we have plenty of time until we are moving so we can afford to take it slow in the beginning...

Last week my mom and dad spent some time with us. They are helping out with the boys and a good company. But it´s quite nice when they leave too...;)

Happy birthday!!

Yesterday we celebrated Hugo, who is turning 6 years the 22nd of February. As Jonas is moving to China next Sunday we chosed to have a party for Hugo this weekend.
When we asked Hugo where he wanted to spend his birthday party and which friends he wanted to invite the answer came very quickly: Everybody in my section in kindergarden and I want to be at the big house called Lek- och Buslandet, a large playground with labyrinths and so much to do!
Ok... In Hugos section they are 20 kids...
It´s not every day we move to China so alright : Lek- och Buslandet and 23 kids....( Gustav invited two of his friends also..)
They had such a good time and Hugo were so happy!

Tomorrow I´m starting my last workweek....It feels strange...
When we move I had to quit my employment so this is really my last week...
I will try to study on distance so I can keep my employment for a while...

As I said, Jonas is moving next Sunday. He will return March 15th to pick us up and we move March 18th....

See U!