Asian eavning

Whenever Jocke is in town we have an Asian dinner.
Jocke is an old friend from school who has lived half his life in Madrid, Spain.
These dinners are fun, because many old friends get together and the sukiaki is great.

Dinner with Staffan and Helena

Cornelia was really sick after Christmas, so we had to cancel dinners and meeting my father. Yesterday she was well enough so we went to Hannas cousins for dinner. Hannas cousins, Maria and Birgitta, are Cornelias idols.

Sale

Day after Christmas day, the sale begins. However it was bad this year. We did not buy anything.

Cafe Fix

Christmas Day we went to Café Fix and had some coffea and buns.

Christmas Eve

This year we celebrated Christmas with Hannas family. And Santa came this year again.
Cornelia and Axel were not afraid of Santa this year. Cornelia had her sucpiscions who really was Santa this year.
Johan (Hannas brother) Axel and Hanna.
Liljan (Hannas mother, Birgitta and Maria (Hannas cousins)


Helena (Hannas Aunt) Bosse (Hannas grandpa) and Göran (Hannas father)

Sun

We did not get any snow until Christmas Day. This picture is from Christmas Eve, when we had a beutiful sunny day.

Christmas tree

We baught a normal red tree. It is a beuty.

The day before Christmas...

In Sweden we celebrate December 24 (tomorrow). Today we are going to buy a Christmas tree, make the ham etc.
Either you buy a normal red tree and it costs around 150-200 SEK ($20) or you buy a king tree and pay twice the price. I wonder what it will be this year.

Christmas gifts to day care

Two days ago, Cornelia, Axel and I bought some gfts for the day care personel. First we went to a café, where they also sold furnitures and kitchens.

Culture house, toy store and Rosendal

The kids an I try to do fun things, even though they are sick. We have visited the culture house, we have seen toys at toy stores and we have visited the gardens of Rosendal.
Today we will buy the ham for Christmas and maybe some christmas gifts.

My vacation disappeared...

I had plans for this week. Letting the kids go to day care, so that I could just relax. But Cornelia got sick and now Axel again, so my vacation disappeared...

Grandma birthday party

My mother has her birthday the darkest day of the year. She had a big party on Sunday, and it was fun.

Fam T*sch

Klara, Agnes, Nettan and Robin had dinner with us on Saturday. We had a good steak and it was fun. We will go to them on new years eve.

Goodbye Svenska Spel

I will miss Svenska Spel. Last Friday I had my last goodbye coffea with Svenska Spel.

New arena for Hammarby

Yesterday it was decided that Hammarby Soccer will get a new arena, taking 25.000 spectators. I don't know if they have decided which proposition to go for, but I believe my father was part of the proposition on the picture. It would be fun if my father won, doing an arena for Hammarby, since he is supporting a competitor team Djurgården...

Going away gift

I got an email the other day from Svenska Spel, where they wanted to take a cup of coffea with me since I will leave GTECH. It was the maintenance department. We have worked 5 years together. When I came there they had baught a big cake and a gift. The gift was a Hammarby shirt, signed by all the players in Hammarby. We sat there talking for a while, and suddenly another Svenska Spel employee came by with another gift; a bag full of Svenska Spel T-shirts, a soccer ball and a book. They are so nice at Svenska Spel. I almost feel like crying.

Lucia at day care

At 7.15 in the morning, we went to day care. The children sang Lucia songs. They were outside this year, so they had their Lucia costimes on top of the overall.
Claes (Ramses dad) and I

Lucia surprise

At 6.15 there was a knock on the door. In came Björn and his daugher Malva, sang some Lucia songs and gave us buns and "glögg" (warm wine). It was a great surprise!

Team spirit

Hammarby played 2-2 against the Danish team Midtjylland yesterday. It was a great game. Hammarbys goal keeper was not playing good and he made a misstake, which led to one of the Danish goals. The you keeper was sad in half time.
At second half, when Hammarby player Pauliño scored, he ran 50 meters just to hug Hammarby goal keeper. That is what I call team spirit.

Cinema - Petson and Findus

After the dance, we wnt to the cinema and saw Pettson and Findus. It was the first time Axel wnt to the cinema. Both Cornelia and Axel loved the film and all the candy they got...

Last dance for Mary Jane, or Cornelia Sofia

Cornelia had her last dance for this season this Sunday. They were all dressed up as little Santas.

Astrid Lindgren land - Junibacken

Hanna went to a party on Friday, so she was a bit tired on Saturday. I brought the kids to Astrid Lindgen land - Junibacken. This is a house on Djurgården, which is so fun. You get to go in a track in Astrid Lindgrens stories. You get to run around in houses and see theather. Today it was Mamma Mu. We had some pan cakes and then Cornelia went to her friend Alice.

Santa

NK had a Santa as well. But the kids were afraid of him and refused to sit in his lap. Cornelia spoke some with him though to get a cake from Santas basket.

NK window display

One of the biggest stores in Stockholm, NK, is famous for their Christmas window display. Cornelia, Axel and I went there on Friday. They enjoyed it a lot.

H&M Christmas party

Yesterday there was a Christmas party at Hennes&Mauritz and even though I am not starting until next year, I was invited. I had mixed feelings before I went there, because I thought I wouldn't know anyone. But I met many new people and some that I actually knew, so I had a fun time.

Axel sick

Axel has a blister which prevents him from going to day care. Hanna and I have divided the days and been working half days to taking care of Axel half days.

Texas food and ice cold drinks

We had dinner and drinks with Spielo yesterday. We started at Texas Long Horn and moved on to the Ice Bar.
The Ice Bar was fun. You get to wear a silver jacket and everything is made of ice, even the glasses.

Visit from Canada

Today we have visitors from Canada. It is Spielo, which now is a GTECH company. They do the VLTs and GTECH does the central system. Maybe we will go to the ice bar in Stockholm today...

Planning for christmas...

This fuzzy picture shows the kids doing christmas present to someone...

Babies to day care

Today we woke up late. Cornelia has drama and dance and you need to be at day care at 8.30. However they were in such a good mode, so I never got to be a stressed out bad dad. And they brought their babies to day care.

Dance and pancake

Sundays are dance and pancakes. Today Cornelias ordinary teacher Sandra was in England, but her sunstitute Marie was ok.

Sledge

Cornelia and Axel got new helmets and Cornelia wanted to go to Kronobergsparken to try her sledge and new helmet. The snow was hard and we went fast. I was scared, but Cornelia loved it.

Broke the bed...

The bed you see on the picture does not exist anymore. Axel and I jumped in bed, and suddenly it broke...

Gondolen

Johan Nordenadler invited us to Christmas dinner Friday. We started at 3 in the afternoon at Gondolen, moved on to Café Opera, Hotel Plaza and finally I found myself standing with a Gin&Tonic at White Room 3 in the morning. I got to sleep 2,5 hours that night, but it was worth it.

Mamma Mia

GTECH Sweden christmas party this year was in Cirkus in Stockholm. We saw the musical Mamma Mia built on the music done by ABBA. It was a great show.