Xmas celebration 2015

After around 15 years abroad, we are used to celebrate Xmas outside Scandinavia, and have built up our own traditions. Santa always visits us on Dec 24th, different 'Santas' every year, and this year he had a British Accent :-)

Last two years, we have had a Danish style Xmas, with some Japanese and Swedish touch.

Most appreciated gift this year…. think Hannah takes the price with her very moderate alarm clock :-)

Happy Diwali

Diwali is approaching (Nov 10-11th) and both girls had celebration in school today. Performances, henna, rangoli, various yummy food stalls - very excited girls!

Diwali is an Hindu festival of light, and one of the largest and brightest celebrations in India. Can compare it with Xmas and Chinese New Year, in my humble opinion. 

Hannah 7 years old

Our wonderful, super cool, talkative, determined, giggly Hannah turns 7 years old (where did the time fly…) and she had a pool party to celebrate with her best buddies. Instead of gifts this year, she asked for donations for charity. She'll donate the money to  'Together for Charity', who works for less fortunate children in Asia.

Thanks to the generous friends of Hannah who jointly participated for the donation <3

Summer has started!!

The girls and Morten get a 2 months summer break in Scandinavia - lucky them!!
First impression - cold!! Hats were out, long sleeves, SOCKS!; the girls for sure are getting a weird understanding of 'summer'….!

One week was spent with Danish grandparents, and the kids (and hopefully grandparents!) had a blast! I was rather nervous they would completely switch to Danish, but seems the Swedish sticks when talking to me - and Morten ironically enough :-)

Girls weekend in London

Our annual girls weekend and destination this year was London. Unique expertience - none of us were preggo, none were breast feeding, lovely! If that meant we went wild clubbing? Not so much... :-)

Shopping, high tea, dinners, massage, coffee breaks, walking, walking, walking, more coffee breaks and loads of gossip and catching up - what a lovely girls weekend!! 

Thanks lovely friends for The yearly energy boost,  love hugs & kisses <3

Girls weekend in London

Our annual girls weekend and destination this year was London. Unique expertience - none of us were preggo, none were breast feeding, lovely! If that meant we went wild clubbing? Not so much... :-)

Shopping, high tea, dinners, massage, coffee breaks, walking, walking, walking, more coffee breaks and loads of gossip and catching up - what a lovely girls weekend!! 

Thanks lovely friends for The yearly energy boost,  love hugs & kisses <3

Matilde's 5th Bday party

Celebration of Matilde's 5th birthday party took place today, 1.5 month prior to her birthday… I guess that's the name of the game when your bday is in the middle of summer and none of your friends will be in the same country… :-) 

Great afternoon, kids looked happy, bday-girl-to-be even happier <3   Thanks to all her friends (and families) for spending the afternoon celebrating our baby girl! 

Swedish National Day

Celebration of The Swedish National Day @ Singapore Polo Club - same procedure as The past few years... Getting rather patriotic living abroad... :-)

Ironically, Morten has 'managed' to be out of Town For 3 years in a row, done know what's The take on that....?!!

Swedish school's writing competition in Singapore

Hannah participated in a writting competition With The Swedish school, and she won 2nd price for the 7 year old group. Very pleased Hannah, and very proud parents :-) 

Price was sgd50, out of which most have been spent on coloring pens...!

Cold Storage Family Fun Run 2015

Great arrangement of a family run by Cold Storage! Kids, and adults, had a great time and pleased with the races. The girls learned the hard way starting a 800 M race with sprint isnt the smartest... :-) 

Balcony gardening

Planting lettuce seeds on the balcony - the closest we'll get to gardening in Singapore :-) 

Organic produce - ECP passing by outside :-)  Let's see if we manage to get anything growing in in the tropical heat!

Cinnamon buns

Mother's Day combined with jet lag for the mom - cinnamon bun baking on the agenda :-)

For some reason, the buns down grow as well as back in Sweden…. I'm using frozen yeast so assume that's the reason… Any advice how to get the buns to grow better (or how to work with dry yeast) would be highly appreciated!

Dubai weekend :-)

May 1st weekend in Dubai with the Trebbien Pedersens - wonderful to spend time together again!!

Combination of jet lagged Kalles and Pedersen babies meant every day started at 6am sharp :-) That gave us very long days and felt 3.5 days lasted for weeks! Wow did we manage to do a lot of activities together; golf, beach, shopping, 2 play lands, dessert safari (awesome, tks Karina for arranging!), bbq, loads of relaxation and coffee….

THANK YOU Karina and AP for your hospitality and simply being you!

Japan Skiing :-)

One week skiing in Sahoro, Japan - greatest vacation ever!!

We stayed at ClubMed, Hokkaido Sahoro, and was definitely a wise choice; children loved the kids club and had the greatest time learning how to ski, perform on stage, play with each other and the overly energetic staff -  and the parents got to enjoy the slopes :-)

Great to have friends Asa & Viktor with kids joining and to see all the kids loving each other's company!!

This is the first time we skied together as a family - and definitely not the last time - a family activity to be continued :-)

Sportsday @ Shaws

Morning starts With sports day @ Matilde's school - 15 min performance and the kids did great - especially on cheering for eachother :-)

Lydia's baby shower

Lydia is expecting no. 3 and she of course needs to be celebrated with a baby shower :-) 

Hayley, Lisa and I threw a Baby Shower for her and her lady friends - lots of yummy food, gifts, massages, laughs and tears :-) 

Xx

Happiness...

Being away from home, feeling bad not being with the kids for 3 days... Opening phone at Changi airport and whatsup is 'spammed' with happy playdate pictures 😍😍😍 - true happiness!! 

Feeling loads of love to wonderful girlfriends hosting playdates when Mrs Kalle is out of town!!  <3

Batu Batu - paradise

Back to Batu Batu, Malaysia, and again -  perfect location, vacation, company - successful getaway from Singapore :-)

Indian night out

Running Group exploring Little India - and 50% of us had not visit Mustafa! Next on The to-do list For sure :-)

Food was amazing, felt we actually were in India!!

Mandarin Award

Hannah started a New school this semester as we wanted her to learn Chinese better through a bi-lingual programme. Going from 2 hrs / wk to 20 hrs has obviously been a challenge - but today Hannah was awarded For her efforts in adapting to New school and language :-)

Very proud Mummy, very surprised and happy Hannah!!

This is obviously a way to encourage students to study/challenge themselves and Will be given out frequently to all kids - nevertheless, it was a great start of a Tuesday morning!

Relaxing weekend

Finally back in Singapore after spending 1.5 week in Europe and China!! 

Very Relaxing weekend, minimum of plans, and sealed it with wine by the pool - and pizza to everyone's excitement :-)

Legoland Malaysia

Highlight of the weekend was definitely our visit together with the Stenhangens to Legoland Malaysia. We were fearing the worst in terms of queueing at the boarder and for the rides at Legoland - wow were we wrong! Hardly no cars on the road, and no waiting at all for the Legoland rides - excellent!!

Only drawback, if I have to come up with one, was the hight restriction on some of the rides. Matilde was devastated she couldn't go on all of the roller coasters so definitely will not come back until she passes 100 cm! 

Other than that - a highly recommended day trip :-) 

Happy New Year!!

Great New Year's celebration in Singapore with 24 Swedes, one Dane and one Auzzie - wonderful!!

Thanks to the host and hostess - and the weather Gods - the celebration would not have turned out successful without you :-)

Looking forward to a fabulous 2015 <3