Long time no see!

Hello....are you still there????
I just realized it has been ages since I last posted anything on this blog.
Time is flying by and May is already at its end.
The past month has been quite "bumpy", if you know what I mean...has felt like an uphill struggle.
April was just fantastic but May has been rather rough. Nothing special has happened to cause this, so no one is to blame :) It´s just how life is sometimes.
I am still driving but I´ve left my tutor and am now on the lookout for a new one. The old one didn´t exactly build my confidence (to put it nicely) so after ten sessions and the total of ONE positive compliment (and I don´t know how many negative ones..) I decided enough is enough.
So at the moment I am a free woman (well...driving wise) and I am trying to rebuild my positive outlook on this whole driving thing.
Apart from driving I have taken up another hobby. I have become a gardener.
Since we moved to our house two years ago our garden has mostly been left to take care of its own business but now I have started to dream of a flowering colourful paradise to overtake my backyard.
Well....some dreams might never be realized but I´m trying...if only to get a small portion of this "celestial vision" on my land. So May has been spent weeding and digging.Digging and weeding. And weeding and digging some more. I see lots of potential! The challenge is to restrict myself and to finish one project before I start a new one. Easier said than done. And also...how will I ever manage to chose what goes where? There are thousands of plants to chose from, and as a lot of you know...I aint exactly quick when it comes to making decisions. At least I am good at digging and doing the rough bits. And with a little luck and lots of help from the dozen of gardening books I got from the library I might get it done before the summer passes. (At least it´ll look good next year:)
Well, enough about me.
The kids are doing great these days as you can see from the football-photos. They´re getting so big. Elias is so clever and careful and takes great care of his sister. (As well as teasing, pushing, hitting, spitting, fighting, screaming and pestering her....like any brother and sister they sure know how to share their love for one another.) And uma is the same, if not even more intense. She loves to tease her brother and to make us all feel she is the queen of the household. We try our best not to crush her fighting spirit and my, my, my...she has got a lot of it. She is what you might refer to as a wild-child. Sweet as they come but so strong willed and fearless that sometimes she just brings you to the end of your tether. But then, out of the blue, she´ll lay her arms around your neck, kiss you intensely on the cheek and say with a big smile on her face "you are the best mummy in the whole world"... bless her heart. There sure won´t be a quiet day when she´s around...but trust me, there will be plenty of chances to smile and laugh and have plenty of cuddles.
Yesterday she got her own bike with "support wheels" and she desperately wanted to ride it on her way to kindergarden...we havent had time to buy her a helmet yet, so she had to use leif´s old one. You should have seen her :) The helmet was so gigantic it kept wobbling from side to side, and fearless as she is she went full speed down the road and in the ditch she landed, countless times. Luckily she was receptive enough to let me teach her how to use the brakes:)
She was so proud of herself and it was such a great experience to see her that way!!!
Moments like those is what happiness is made of!
Well...this has been a looooong update but I hope you don´t mind. Hope you all are doing well.
lots of love M.

Who said that soccer isnt therapeutic...

Yesterday me (Leif I), Uma and Elias went to play some football down at the football ground. It felt great. The Kids enjoyed it and I enjoyed it as well. Generally I love to play, I even started playing in a team.... old boys team in Mysen 7th Division.... the lowest there is.... but lots of fun.
So if you are not doing anything fun at the moment, please play football. It is recommended....