We are now settled in Edinburgh, Scotland and Kyle has started school. The tone here is so different from that in the countryside of Sweden. It’s drizzling a bit and you can feel the day to day city pace. Kyle has started school, he leaves with his bag around 7:30am and is having a wonderful time. Gigi and I are hanging with Uncle Ryan, I’m catching up on a little work, journaling, reading… It feels like we left summer behind in all it’s perfection in Sweden. It’s definitely fall here in Scotland.
I still have more photos and stories to share from our time in Sweden this week… these photos are from one day of our trip we spent just relaxing on the farm. One thing I loved about the farm life was going every morning with Gigi to check on the chickens and look for eggs. Then, to come right inside and make her breakfast from an egg she collected. I’m so excited to plan and prepare for getting chickens next spring.
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We spent the day playing, exploring, doing laundry, snacking on real Swedish fish, napping, reading, and soaking up the sunshine.
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Another thing we loved about being in the countryside was fika, afternoon coffee that is traditionally prepared over an open fire and served with sweets. Ryan’s neighbors invited us over to have traditional fika with them. We wandered over around 4pm for coffee. Normally I wouldn’t dare drink coffee so late in the day but throughout our time in Sweden I never found it to affect my sleep. Maybe it’s countered by all the fresh air. We sipped our coffee and snacked on brownies made my Kerstin. We also got to try her special flower water which was very sweet, made from flowers at her mountain cabin, and a homemade juniper berry cordial.
Kerstin and Oboreo delighted us all with some violin playing! The girls, Gigi and Kerstin’s granddaughter Judith, couldn’t get enough. Gigi danced and jigged and cheered for more. It was wonderful. The more they played the sillier the girls became. Doing headstands, lying down and rolling on the grass, squealing and giggling like mad.
After fika we returned to the house to prepare for a wood-fired pizza dinner with Lars, Karin, Isak and Sofia. Any time spent with this family was so much fun. Gigi couldn’t get enough of Miss Sofia. Everyone chipped in to prepare the ingredients and soon we we all assembling our individual pizzas.
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