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I was laughing sooo much!!

This post is a gallery with the cakes I made before I started with this blog.
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For Tobias’ second birthday celebration this year. April-08
Moose warning sign - they have those in Sweden!

For Tobias’ 26th birthday, March-08 

For a friend’s baptism - February-08

For a wedding, February-08

And here is the birthday cake that I made!

From this evening until tomorrow evening is the Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism.

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My history teacher finally showed up - so within the next two weeks I’m going to write two essays.. one about nation building after 1870.. comparing Sweden with other countries.. or - comparing how the authors of the books describe the nation building and the differences. The second essay will be about if and how the subject history has changed over the time.

Coffee and chocolate.. that’s what I need!

Did you know that coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil’s drink. Pope Vincent III heard this and decided to taste it before he banished it. He enjoyed it so much he baptized it, saying “coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it.” read more

Kaffe är Guds gåva till mänskligheten.. gjord på böner - Amen! (word game that doesn’t make sense in English)

Today I went with the girls in the morning to buy a new hand mixer. I just had to - because the one I had broke a few days ago, and this week I’m going to make a big birthday cake for Independence Day. Later I realized I’ll have some problems to find the time to do all the shopping for the week.. Tobias is  working a lot this week- and the supermarket will probably be closed.. Hmm.. I’d better figure out when it is open..

Today I had some old friends from Sweden over - only for a short visit - maybe half an hour. People at my parents age.. that I didn’t see for 5,5 years… some of them meant a lot to me when I grew up. So it was really nice to see them again.

My teacher was supposed to give u the subject so we could get started with the essay this weekend. Now - monday evening - didn’t get it yet. Aaarrgh! I hope this doesn’t mean that we’ll have less time for it.

Don’t ask me, I’m only visiting this planet… (Larry Norman)

At the moment I’m quite mad at wordpress.. it is supposed to save my post every now and then when I’m writing - right? It saved my title and the tags. That’s it. Grrr.

Soo.. I’ll just quckly try to say what I said.

When I started with this blog I decided to start every single post with a picture.. or appropriate picture.. or one that is lo kashur bichlal. This far it fell on that second opinion a little bit too much I think. Well.. I also decided to not post so many pictures of our cute little kids.. but it turns out that’s not an easy combination (pictures without kids..) My husband thinks I’m a bit paranoid when I don’t want to publish pictures of the kids.. But I wonder who he is to say that.. when he himself is double locking the door when going out with the trash even if I’m home!! That maybe would make sense in Johannesburg.. but not here.

We hade a nice weekend with nice people.. Friday evening we watched Fiddler on the Roof. Maybe we should take a break from that movie for some time now. We’ve seen it three times within less than half a year now. But on the other hand it is a good movie so I wouldn’t suffer from seeing it again.

I was planning to post something funny from youtube.. but or I’m stupid or the computer is to slow. Because it doesn’t work. So let’s take that some other time.

It is time for me to continue studying.. Today we should get the subject for the essay. Last time I checked the homepage for my class didn’t even work. I hope he will solve the problem soon so that I can get started with the essay.

If some of the tags doesn’t make sense - it could be that I forgot to write things that I wrote in the original post.

Shavua tov!

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like banana.

Tuesday university chat -done
.. we had quite a good discussion about communism and other stuff.. But I’m still a bit behind with the reading. And this weekend the teacher is going to give us the subject for the essay we have to write. I’ll have two weeks to work on that.. two busy weeks.

Independencce day - not done yet
We’ll next week celebrate our independence day… 60 years since 1948. And I’m going to bake a birthday cake for our country… though only some of our closest friends are going to actually get a piece..

That reminds me that I have to publish the picture of my cakes some time.. you who have read my husbands blog might know I would never bake a normal cake.

Potty training - done She’s such a good girl.. learned very fast. Today I didn’t even had to remind her every now and then.

I don’t think I will have so much time over for blogging the next few weeks. I’ll probably write some shorter posts now and then. There are some blogs that I would like to get a bit more into.. read older posts.. comment on stuff. But I’ll just have to do that later when I’m not so busy. (I have no idea when that will happen..)

They started to build a new synagogue close to our son’s kindergarten. And guess what? They closed the shortcut were we used to walk to get there.. so now when he went back after the passover vacation suddenly it takes us almost double as long to get there.(walking.. we don’t have a car) Why do bad things happen to good people? Ok.. I don’t even want an answer.

Amber.. I just wanted to tell you that the reason why I don’t comment on your blog when it comes to politics, religion etc.. is that I’m not that discussing kind of person. I have my opinions.. It is just that discussion sucks. (At this point that dude wouldn’t agree..) I’ll be happy to continue commenting on other kinds of posts.

Ok.. so here is my last conversation with my husband:

Me - Are you sleeping on purpose?
Tobias - I don’t know. Who is Purpose?

If you haven’t yet realized, I everyday put a picture in the blog. If I don’t have related pictures I just pick one that is not related. Like todays swedish jewish moose.

For you who already read my husbands blog.. this will be similar! I’m very busy at the moment and I’m not going to blog/read blogs/comments etc. Kind of not on the list of the top ten most important priorities. I’m a couple of weeks behind with the studies. Before tuesday I’m supposed to read about

• Asia in the era of western imperialism
• Nation building in the western hemisphere and Australia
• The great break: war and revolution
• Nationalism in Asia
• The age of anxiety in the West
• Dictatorships and World War II
• Global recovery and division between superpowers 

It is about 220 pages in a book where it usually takes me a whole evening to go through 20 or 30 pages. Wish me luck!

Today I f-i-n-a-l-l-y got that application signed by a lawyer!!

And then the baby got two vaccination shots and complaints about that she is not gaining enough weight.. Well.. we went through the same thing the first year with Emunah too. Nothing to worry about. She’ll be just fine!

Tomorrow Efraim is going back to kindergarten after 2,5 weeks of passover vacation. Back to routine…

Now I’m gonna have a huge cup of coffe and have a date with my book.

Mmm soup.. mmm noodle soup.

I’ll keep this blog short. My husband promised the kids to play a letter learning game on the computer in another ten minutes.

Today we have shabat - a wonderful day of rest. Yesterday was busy. Tobias had a crazy day at work and came home only at 4 pm. So my plan to send him out with the kids to the playground while I was cleaning the house didn’t work out. But at least we had a nice and lazy evening, watching Friends.. The rest of the week we are studying in the evening so there is no time left for watching TV. Of course we should do other “more social” stuff too. But we are usually soo tired.. 

Sabbath is such a blessing.. of course a lot to do on Friday in order to have all the food for the weekend prepared, and to clean the whole house. Especially since I’m home alone with three kids. But it is just so worth it.. because then we have a whole day of rest - together with the family.. No cooking, no cleaning.. aaah! 

This afternoon we started potty training our 2,5 year old girl.. didn’t go so well this far. I guess I’ll have to clean the floor a lot next week..

They want the computer now.

Shabat shalom

Today, it has been six months since I gave birth to Talitha, at home. We were planning to go to the hospital. But at the end she came so fast that I didn’t even managed to get out from the bathroom. My parents were still in the cab on the way from town, and we didn’t even had time to call for an ambulance. She was born after only two hours of contractions - that were not so regular, not so painful, and they were way too short to think that the baby would be born within the next few hours. But we were wrong. Suddenly the water broke - and within two minutes she was born - in that tiny little bathroom on the picture. (I took the picture to save for her as a memory.) I pushed only once - and my husband caught her when she came flying like a projectile. I don’t even remember that I was in pain. I don’t think I was. If you want to read more of this story  - my husband wrote about it in his blog a month ago.

A nurse once told me that I should be grateful for what happened.. that many women would be jealous  of me for such an easy birth. And I really am grateful.. Everything was just natural and easy. No doctors, no nurses, no pain, panic or fear. Maybe this was the way God intended it to be? I know how hard and painful it usually is to give birh. I’ve done that twice too. But this time it was just amazing. She really is a gift - the happiest, easiest and cutest baby you can think.. She was a happy surprise, and she surprised us again by the way she was born. I wonder what her next surprise will be…