Baby Shower

The most wonderful friends hosted a baby shower in honor of our unborn baby boy today <3

Amazing afternoon at Fullerton Bay Hotel with high tea, champagne, fun games, laughter and the nicest of gifts - Thank You all for coming and making this into a wonderful and memorable day - love you all Xx

Chinese New Year Lion Dance

Lion Dance at our condo - Hannah was excited, Matilde excited mixed with reservation :-)

Fettis dagen - Fat Tuesday

Today is 'fettis dagen' and all of Sweden endulge in 'semlor' (cardamon buns with marsipan and whipped cream) I had in a bright moment a plan to bake at home, but since i rarely succeed in using the dry yeast available in Singapore (or Any dry yeast for that matter...), we were grateful to be invited to a friend's 'semle' party - and the 'semlor' were superb!!! 

After the Swedish tradition, which Hannah & Matilde weren't overly impressed about, they wanted Singapore food and we went to a halker stall to get chicken rice :-)

Trick Eye Museum

A a few hours well spent in Sentosa's Trick Eye Museum! The pictures afterwards were actually more fun, then looking at the various items at the museum…. but indeed worthwhile a visit! 

Morten's turning-40-weekend!!

What a wonderful weekend with family and friends we had in Bali!!
We are very pleased and grateful that people travelled from near and far to celebrate the bday boy, who had the best of bday's he could have asked for <3

THANK YOU to all that made the weekend a memory of a lifetime Xx

Kids favorite activity - horse back riding!!! 

After the party weekend, we stayed yet another few days in Bali with our family. Great way to wind down - and last holiday as a family of 4 :-) 

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 :-)