"Mamma you and me we are horse girls"  Mila is playing with plastic horses, soft toy horses, barbie horses, riding on her stick horses or running around being a horse most of the time. While we are here in Khimki, Moscow we have a stable 10 min walk from us. The stable is cute and the lady who runs it nice but not really the same standard as I am use. It is fun to have chance to let Mila ride the little pony Marta and to hang in a well known environment but still so different. For example look at the tiniest stable aisle how the manage to get big horses in and out is for me a mystery.  

We drove down town Moscow today ( no traffic so it only took us 20 min... Amazing) Parked in our old neighborhood at Shabolovka and walk to Gorky Park. Gorky Park is my favorite place in Moscow. A park full of life and always somethig cool going on. A modern and artistic park with great food places, Garage Contemporary art museum, play ground and view over Moscow River. Today it was boiling hot sunny weather and we had a great time. It was fun to see Garage museum new building impressive and funky. The Urs Fischer clay YES project outside was super cool. 200 ton clay used for the project. 

We are back in Moscow and will be here for a few weeks. Great to be full team all together and to hang in our second home for the last time before we move from here. It feels like home vacation, home but at the same time far away. Crazy how much stuff we have with having furniture's and equipment for two homes and now we will soon have to store everything from here in Lundsätter.  The flight over went well but it is certainly no walk in the park travelling by myself with 1 year old and 3,5 year even it only takes 2 hours ( thank God!) I have a lot of experience travelling with and without children and here is my best advice: Plan your hand luggage well with snacks, toys and more snacks Trunki bag is the best invention ever (expensive hard plastic bag for kids with wheels that the kids can ride on) I don't know what I would do without Trunki with a tired 3,5 year old and hundred kilometers to passport control. With Trunki she can just hop on and ride and me easily pull and h...

Garden status 2016 In my new garden beds three different types of sallad is growing and we are eating from it every day. Peas are coming along and radish also. The potatoes are close to blooming so when we get back from our Moscow trip we will try it out. Tomatoes of course. Doing good progess so far. I Think I found great sunny spot for them so lets hope we will get some nice once. Strawberries yes. My dad and Filip loves these colorful wind turning things and great seems to keep birds away. BUT still strawberries are going missing. Not stolen by birds but Three very cute strawberry loving dogs... I even have picture evidence.. We are heading to Moscow tomorrow and staying for a couple of weeks. Very excited to be full team together and to enjoy Moscow summer we have only seen all the cold,wet, snowy winter months two year now so we are very much ready to see the prettier side of this big city.

I never managed to finish this illustration... It was a very rainy day. But I mean rainy like no joke rainy day. My dad had rented a digger for a project in the garden. Rain and digging machine in the garden = MUDD. 3 dogs and 2 kids = too many muddy dogs and kids. At what age does mudd start to become a pain in the ass and not a lot of muddy fun? For kids I mean I guess for dogs it is a lifelong passion. However one by one I had to lift them in straight to the shower removing mudd and sand. But of course it was boring waiting outside so the whole muddy gang ended up inside on a 3,5 year olds initiative. GREAT more mudd to clean up in every little corner of the house.

I am starting a completely new chapter of my work life this autumn. A couple of weeks ago I signed a contract to start working as a teacher teaching Business, management and economics at a high school. Very exciting. I have been thinking that a teaching job would be fun and this is a chance for me to really try if this is a job for me before I add pedagogic to my MBA. This job kind of came to me and I grabbed the opportunity and are very much looking forward to start this new chapter in my life. Here is a reflection of my childhood dreams of jobs and how it corresponds with what I have done so far.. My childhood dreams about job and carrier path Riding instructor - I have spent many of my childhood days making lists of horses and riders and teaching them how to ride. But I mean MANY hours. Running around pretending to be a horse, pretending that I am riding a horse and screaming to pretend students what to do with their horses. School teacher - I guess is was inspired by my gr...

I have been good continuing same speed drawing small illustrations in my sketchbook journal, but I am crap in taking photos of them and getting them here in the blog. Bad internet connection and life is just simply getting in my way which is totally ok. Here is any way an illustration of a giraffe from Kålmården ( although according to my mother it looks like a moose..) Mila was asking to see the giraffes as soon as we entered the park and didn't stop asking every two minutes before we finally found them. At the same time my sister was telling us about twenty times that when she was younger and visited the park she pet the giraffes.