Happy 2013 :-)

Ice skating

First time ice skating in The tropics For Morten and I, first time ever For Hannah - great fun first time experience :-)

Friday dinner

Picked up from office by hubby and girls and dinner by The sea :-)

Santa Claus visit :-)

The best Santa just visited us all The way from Australia - THANK YOU :-)

Merry Christmas :)

Lego exhibition

Lego exhibition in Singapore, definitely worthwhile a visit! 

Clubmed Bintan

5 days pre-Xmas holiday was the best way to relax prior to Xmas - no need/time for major preparations and we simply have to focus on what's important - to be with eachother :) Can definitely recommend Clubmed for families with kiddos - the kids club was awesome and they did so much fun activities! Hannah's favourites were the shows, both to participate and being the audience :-) 

Dance competition, princess performance, gymnastics, hula hop, Gannam style performance... :-) 

Pool side

The beach was normally the activity when Hannah was at kids club (she hates sand......) but Matilde loved it!!

Bug bites...

Matilde managed To get her feet covered in moskito bites and hurts badly when walking... Off to The doctor and hopefully The cream and medicine received Will help!! She was happy regardless as got To paint mummy's nails... Beautiful... :-)

Sunday fun

After loads of travelling during the fall, I'm finally done for 2013 :-)

Celebration with a dinosaur show and by the pool with great neighbours, and dad & stepmom from Sweden!

Hawaii girlfriend reunion :-)

12 years after graduating from HPU, I get To see one of My really good friends from school while visiting San Francisco :-)

Colleagues

Portland, Oregon dinner With US colleagues- a very ethnically mixed group having Viernamese food :-)

Counting Down To Xmas

Freezing in Hong Kong

Girls talk over a cup of hot chocolate in a freeeeeezzzing HK :-)

Bday party / house warming combo

Thanks the Gormans for super afternoon/evening!! The kiddos were not really a Joy in the car home but considering how far off their bedtime, Guess we gotta blame ourselves :-)

Love letter

Hannahs first love letter To a boy at the Condo :-) Matilde joining in making him handprints... :-)

Lucia practise :-)

Singing practise for Swedish Santa Lucia - getting into the Xmas spirit :-)

Swedish Children's X-mas Party in Singapore

Great event suitable for the younger crowd - thanks SWEA for arranging :-)

Gingerbread cookies

First gingerbread cookies batch for the season. We started out with 10 cookies, took 25 min, and was perfect in terms of attention span :-)

Shanghai by night...

Glamourous evening in Shanghai... Or not... :-)

Starbucks in Dhaka!!!

Happy to see the development of the country, as was 2 years since last visit. Lots of new foreign brands present, new flyovers to reduce traffic jams (even though Im sure I spent at least 30 percent of My Dhaka trip stuck in a car...), new restaurangs - and Starbucks!!!

Maersk get-together :-)

East Coast beach time with ex-Maersk colleagues (still one with APM-M though!) - great To y'all again!!

Now off to Dhaka...

Date night

Our dear friends Anders & Karina generously provided accomodation for a night and Morten & I happily enjoyed 18 hrs on our own :-) Were we surprised waking up at 10am without Any interuptions of kiddos, and could enjoy a quiet b-fast with excellent seaview.

The kids? They were happily home With Nady, having dinner together With the neighbour's kids, also home alone :-)

Could not be away from the girls too long though so they joined the party by lunch time.

Funeral ceremony

Out drivning with hubby and getting stopped for 5 min by a funeral ceremony crossing the street... Took a while for us To understand what it was, and Hannah's assumptions was "-it's Chinese New Year!"

Half Marathon :-)

Women Great Eastern Marathon accomplished - yiehoo!!!

Maria from Hong Kong and I signed up during the summer and must admit the closer we Got To the start date, the more I questioned My sanity when signing up... But it was quite fun and of course feeling awesome at the finish Line :-)

Here we come, chatting along... :) 

Morten was one of the only supporters on the track, a proud hubby :)

Friday baking session

Wanted Some creativity With the girls and decided to bake. I Managed not To assist the actual baking, even though it was hard not interfere :-)

IKEA 💙

Happiness when IKEA has got a shipment of Swedish food!! I basically emptied the store supply on 'julmust', 'gott & blandat' and 'hushållsost' :-)

Most excited over the gingerbread dough though!!

Pedicure

Amazing what a pedicure can so To your kiddos in the morning - happy as could be and no normal 'i dont want To brush My teeth/get dressed/wear school uniforms...' Wonderful :-)

God parents

Hannah's godparents in town, always a big hit!! Except Hannah was too excited To sleep and Managed To stay up until 22:30... Might actually be good as all by myself tomorrow With the kiddos as Morten is in DK and Nady at the Dahlström's residence... :-)

Dirty dirty feet

While sisters play sports, Matilde and Rylie run around barefeet and wow, did those feet get black :-)

Trick or Treat

Our entire Condo was in a Halloween mood today and it was great fun seeing all dress up kids and the excitement doing their 'trick or treat'.

Both the girls were over the moon of excitement and talked about scary witches and pumpkins and of course - candy :-)

They got to choose one piece each (am I to strict?!?) and rest is saved for approx 100 Saturdays onwards... Yes, it was a LOT of candy...

Leg warmers...

Fanny dress party at school today and Matilde picks leg warmers. No matter what i said, fancy dresses i suggested, it was all about the leg warmers...

School castle for the princess ;-)

Ostbågar!!

Home alone With a giant bag of Swedish cheese doodles - happiness :-)

X-mas starts early in the tropics...

...maybe To ensure the Singapore residents will get a tiny bit of Xmas feeling despite a constant 33 degrees, bright sun, flip flops and not a snowflake in sight...

Personally, find it quite entertaining :-)

Bday party and sick Hannah...

Two adorable babies turning one and bday party was on the agenda for today. The kids have talked about the party for a week, and when we arrive, Hannah starts complaining about her forehead hurting... 1 Hr later, she is boilingly hot so Morten takes her home and she sleeps for 4 hrs, My poor baby :(

The planned Halloween playdate for the afternoon was obviously a no-go and the rest of the weekend Will be very Low key... Might be good ad Morten is of To DK for a week followed by Dubai To speak at a bunker conference...

The party was great (tack Sofie & Paul!!), and Matilde enjoyed playing With all the other kiddos. And mummies/daddies enjoyed some quiet time by the pool side :-)

Hari Raya à la Danish Style

Pool, BBQ, danske pölser med remolade, ristede lög, ketchup, senap - and wine of course :-)

Sådan!! :-)

Hari Raya Haji ready :-)

Gold Card

Don't know if I should be happy or scarfs getting a SQ Gold Card after 6 months work... :S

Hong Kong friends in Singapore :-)

Finally we have a weekend With entire family in Singapore!! Saturday was all about sports With Morten playing a Danish tournament, Hannah Shaws Little League AND a Swim test (similar To Swedish baddare/grodor märkena).

Sunday - Sofie, Julian, Lucas & Ella play-at-Sentosa-With-lunch-in-the-rain morning :-) SUPER nice To see eachother again, last time was when we lived in HK!! Hopefully it Wont take another 1.5 yr til next time :-)

Matilde ready for Family church service and BBQ :-) 

New Delhi

Three days biz trip to Delhi, 2 nights in a hotel and 2 nights in the air - for the latter, I'm getting closer to perfecting efficient sleeping on a short flight: 1 sleeping pill prior boarding, ear plugs and eye cover. Result: only 10 min awake time b/w Singapore and Delhi :-)

Had a great dinner with some old friends first evening at the 'Kebab Factory' at SAS Radison. Highly recommended if you're in the area! When we were about the explode of all the food, the waiter informed us it now was time for the main course... Note for future: starters are most likely more than enough :-)

Rest of the trip was work, work and work With one Hr sightseeing/shopping on the way to the airport!

My Pakistanian and Indian colleagues