Busy

I don't have much time or energy to blog this days. Have started school again and it seems like studying and my energetic daughter is taking up most of my time. I will be having a busy schedule for ten weeks now. After that things will be a bit calmer.

So have patience with me, as I will not be blogging that frequently for a while now. While I'm busy doing other things than blogging, you guys can sit in front of the computer screen in amazement about what a gorgeous daughter I've got. Who will be exactly six months old tomorrow, by the way. I can't believe how time flies!

Good news, but still lots left to do

Several chains of Supermarkets in Sweden (like Hemköp, Netto, City Gross) has decided to not sell endangered fish. Finally!

I just wish that they all would also take responsibility and stop selling non ecological bananas. Considering what the pesticide from non ecological banana farms does to the environment and the people living and working on and by these farms, I think that it should be a given for people to not buy or sell bananas that are not organic and fair trade marked.

Mixed emotions

It felt really strange this morning. First I drank my tea with one hand, while the other one was jiggling a breast milk pump.

Then:
Packed my bag for school. Note book, iPod, wallet, pen, calender. No diapers, tissues, or extra clothing.
Got dressed the way I wanted to. Without caring about comfort, practicalities, or nursing bras.
Left home. Without a pram, harness, or a smiling Noam looking at me.

Spent five hours away from my precious daughter, for the first time.
Missed her like crazy and couldn't stop hugging her when I got back.
But I also felt free. It was nice doing something for myself, by myself.

I guess it's a mixed feeling that is difficult to understand if you haven't been through it yourself. Or maybe not. I don't know. Anyway, after all these emotions Noam and I went to a kind of drop in kindergarden and we both got totally exhausted.

A real girl

Four year old Tove, while watching Noam's hair flowing in the bath:

"Now she looks like a REAL girl"

I guess I was never a real girl, as a kid, considering my parents always kept my hair crew cut.

It's just like the answers you often get when asking kids what the difference is between men and women. They often reply:

"Men drive cars and women clean the house"

It's sad how early our kids are brainwashed in to believing in all these kinds of differences between men/boys and women/girls.

Noam has a crush

Noam has a crush on a guy.

There I was thinking that she would be gay and that I wouldn't have to deal with teenage boys in the future, but it looks like I was wrong. Damn, would have preferred to deal with teenage girls.

Anyway, this boy that she has a crush on does not have a crush on her. He is two weeks older and he more or less ignores her when she is trying to take his clothes off, eat his socks, pull his nose, suck his hands and hit his head.

The poor girl is pulling all kinds of stunts to get his attention, but he doesn't seem impressed.

I'm sure that he soon will realise what a catch she is though.

Fever definitely gone

Noam's fever gone. Definitely gone.

She started moving and chatting with lots of energy at 6 am this morning. Why I bothered setting the alarm this morning I don't know. It's not like Noam would let me oversleep.

Todays philosophical question: Are all babies total nutcases like mine, or is she extra odd?

A peaceful day

Well, if Noam was high yesterday, she was definitely low today. The poor little thing did get a fever. Still handled it much better than I handle fever.

She just talked a bit less and a bit less loud, didn't move as much as usual, didn't demand as much stimulation as normally, and slept more than a normal day.

To sum it up, home was a bit more peaceful than usual.