Lasagna!

Yesterday i made my first ever lasagna! I even made my first ever white sauce. I found this recipe from a Swedish cookbook for a aubergine and chorizo lasagna and thought that it sounded good. Off to the supermarket i went to get the ingredients but i couldn't find any aubergine, I asked the staff but no one knew what it was. I was a bit confused, because i knew that aubergine wasn't a very rare vegetable but i couldn't figure out what it was. In the end i had to call Rebecka, i had a feeling that maybe i was using the Swedish word for the vegetable but i had a mind blank and couldn't come up with the English one. Luckily, Rebecka came to my rescue and told me that is was eggplant i was after. Sometimes you really mix up the English and Swedish.

Anyway, the lasagna turned out great, maybe not as filling as i would have liked to but very tasty.

Yes, first ever white sauce in the making.

Tadaaa!

Oh, and have a look at this little one, falling asleep on her tummy in the pram, hugging Boris the teddy.

Right now we have taken away her dummy and trying to teach her to fall asleep by herself. Before she got her eczema she was a very good sleeper and slept through the night and very well during the day but when her eczema started she stopped and this weekend it became a bit to much for me not getting much sleep at all so we decided to teach her to fall a sleep buy herself and without the dummy. I am amazed at how good it have been and it was so much easier than i thought it would be. Don't take me wrong, it have been hard but not super, duper hard. Now its been two nights and it takes about 10-15 min for her to fall asleep by herself, and then she sleeps all night through again, go Maja!

Dinner!

Dinnertime.


Dinner date.

Scones!

Yum, i just had my first scones in this house. The oven baked them perfectly. I was a bit worried because we have a really old gas oven that's really hard to bake with. To it i had my favorite chai, punjabi chai from Leaf Tea. How good is Big Love, the best. Is anyone else hooked?

Can you see Lena's ear?

My little darling.

Beautiful Park to walk in.

Lena, the crazy swimming dog.

Ok, so it doesn't look like its very steep but it was a VERY steep hill.

And an ever steeper hill on top with stairs at the top, phu

Went for a really big walk, the weather is amazing today. Sunny but not too hot. I think these big walks and all the big hills is the reason to why i was able to get into a pair of chinos yesterday for the first time in months. Even tho these chinos fell off me before i got pregnant i was super stoked that i could wear them, i am so sick of tights and skirts!

The little ones are sleeping and i have to choose between doing the dishes or doing some sewing, hmmmm hard decision.

Tired!

Today i am tired, had a bad sleep. Maja made a lot of noises during the night and I woke up and since it was really cold this night, 10 degrees, I got worried and had to get up and check on her and make sure she was ok, which of course she was. Then Lena woke me up at four and needed to go outside.

Here in Australia we wrap the babies when they go to sleep. I only do it for the night sleep and its amazing. At night, around 22.00 i feed her and then change her nappy, then I wrap her and put her to bed, turn of the light and leave the room and she falls asleep, most times. Sometimes i have to go back and i give her the dummy and then leave again. Then she sleeps all night through to about 7-8 in the morning.

One thing that i really don't like about living here is how cold it gets inside the houses during winter. They have no insulation whatsoever and we have only one gas-heater and that is in the living room. So you sort of always cold inside which i hate. I miss the Swedish way where you are inside and warm and cosy and then if you wanna go outside you put on a lot of clothes, here it sometimes feels like its colder inside then outside.

Maja under 4 layers of blankets. Diana, my mother in law have knitted a thick woolen blanket that hopefully will arrive today and that will keep her very warm i hope.

Last nights dinner was and easy one for me, since i was exhausted from my busy day i did cous  cous with roasted pumpkin and roasted tomato. It had a lot of other veggies in it too and some feta. It was very yummy. Its such an easy and quick thing to cook. It was probably missing some meat to it but i seriously couldn't be bothered. I am not a big fan of cooking. It always been Arron who have done the cooking and he is so good at it. I don't mind cooking every now and then but this everyday cooking i don't like at all but since he is working so much now and i am at home i have sort of had to start cooking a bit more and sometimes i like it but mostly i don't.

Well the sun is out now and Maja have been fed so i should go out for a walk and then i think its scones time. Didn't have them for breakfast, had my home made muesli, i was so hungry so i couldn't wait to eat.

Sourdough.

Baked my sourdough yesterday and it failed. But i am not giving up, Im starting a new starter today, have done a lot of research on internet and read up on it so hopefully this will work. Our goal is to not buy any bread and just eat what I bake but as it is now that will have to wait a bit until i get this figured out.
Before Rebecka had Moa she worked for a company Mount Zero Olives who do  mostly olives and olive oil but they do other products as well and the owner Rick are organizing so that i can buy a 10 kg bag of organic rye flower for whole sale price. So good, especially since its so hard to find rye flower in the shops here.

Mothers group yesterday was great. A lot of cute babies and beautiful mums. One mum lives just a few houses away from me and she has two dogs so i have a walking partner there which is great.

Talked to mum on skype yesterday, how lucky are we to have skype. Its the best thing and it makes it easier to be so far away from family and friends. She said that Maja had grown a lot but also that she looks older in her face and i had a look at her and saw it took, her face have grown up a bit. Since im with her 24/7 i sometimes miss these things, its like you have to stop and really study her a bit.

Hur söt ar inte jag?

I love my life!

I really do, i have the best life, the best husband, the best daughter, the best dog, the best family and the best friends. So lucky.

Sunday was a very quiet day here. Me and Arron both felt a bit sick so we just took it easy. In the evening we went for dinner at friends of Arrons place. They have twin boys that just over 15 months. They have just finished renovating their house and it is AMAZING! I forgot camera tho.

Sourdough starter

Yesterday i was going to finish my sourdough bread that i have been "brewing" but i realized i didnt have enough rye flour so i went to 4 shops to get some, noone had it. Searched on internet and found a place across the city who stocks it so we went for a little trip. Since we went across city we thought that we might as well go to IKEA. Last time i went to IKEA i found this amazing vase in the 'as is' corner for only $2. There is nothing wrong with it, it was an display item. The plants i found out on my walks and now i have this lovely arrangement at home for super cheap, yay.

 Plant arrangement in vase from IKEA

Today i drove Arron to work and then me, Maja and Lena went to the beach, it was so amazing. Forgot the camera, again. Note to self to take it with me all the time.

Oops, i have to run to my first mothers group meeting. Write more later.