Good things for remembering
- The sounds a baby makes when he’s content
- Walking and talking with my husband during the long hospital wait
- A woozy Martin smiling from the recovery room bed
- Simone’s Maultaschen, yum yum!
- The green and blue of leaves and water
- The way Sammy runs: flat-out
- Reading Blue Hat Green Hat to Sammy and laughing like loons
- Spotify quizzes with John and Anders and the kids
- Simone’s victory dance when Germany won the group game against the USA in the World Cup
- Not needing the fans we brought and being able to have the bedroom window cracked at night…mmmm cool night air
- Karin playing soccer with, and Martin reading Pettsson & Findus to, Sammy
- Making it halfway around Blå Jungfrun
- John offering to see me safely back to the boat and being super patient with me on the way
- Martin making it all the way to the TOP of Blå Jungfrun despite his broken arm
- Karin and John bonding
- Watching baby Jake figure out how to sit up from a prone position and ALMOST figure out crawling
- Successful arm surgery for Martin even if it means PINS STICKING OUT OF HIS ARM for 5 weeks
- A long lovely walk through the peninsula and woods
- Visiting the Dödarhultarn museum and seeing some great wood carvings with Anders
- Playing Famous People in the car on the way home and Martin trying to come up with a third colonel after we guessed his first two: Colonel Sanders and Colonel Mustard
- Coming home to a tree FULL of cherries!
Good things for forgetting
- 12 hours of waiting at the hospital
- Standing by Martin’s side at the operating table as they put him under
- The hilariously bad artwork in our cottage
- Too much thinking about work
- Waking up at 5 a.m. the first day of work after vacation
- Nearly not making it back to the bathroom after a long walk
- Vertigo on the steep & slippery rock faces of Blå Jungfrun
- Swollen feet
- Seasickness on the boat back from the island
- Bringing 5 books with me and only managing to read what had to be the least satisfying one
- Martin’s first hipster haircut: mah baby is gone! *sob*
- The fact that I have to work now for 3 more weeks before REAL vacation starts
