Tagged: meandmyman

09
Apr
2017

TWO BIG THINGS

I’m so out of the habit of writing I don’t seem to know how to get started again. And I still can’t sit down at the computer at home without my arm starting up. I’ve been super sick with a nasty head cold for over a week now. Had to reschedule my MRI from last week to next week, and if I’m still coughing by Tuesday will probably have to postpone it again. Highlights of the past week, despite the unbelievable amount of mucus, include Anders coming home from South Africa to be surprised by A NEW BED! and Karin...

14
Mar
2015

CONFIRMATION

I am apparently old now. I can’t seem to sleep in, or go back to sleep when I wake up early. Unlike my teenage children and my former self, who could sleep half the day away, I am no longer able to doze of a morning. I can still stay slugabed for hours with a book but the sleeping part seems to be a thing of the past. My intentioned plans for this weekend were pretty nil, though I did have some spring-cleaning on the menu. It’s the melodifestivalen final tonight so we invited Anders’ mom over to watch it...

01
Jun
2014

PERFECT DAYS

This has been a nearly perfect long weekend. Perfect weather, perfect amount of things to do, perfect amount of sleeping in. There was sushi and sunshine and summer flowers. A not-too-long to-do list with almost everything checked off and then some. Time with family and time to myself. One book finished and another begun. And an anniversary to celebrate. The yard looks beautiful, well, at least it looks, like Martin says, as if someone cares about it. Anders clipped the hedge and pulled all the long grass and weeds from around the cherry tree and set a ring of stones...

20
May
2014

NILS EINAR EK, 1926-2014

I’ve been to four funerals in Sweden. And four in the US, if I remember correctly: my father, his mother, her housekeeper’s husband, and my maternal grandfather. Here in Sweden, the funerals were for the wife of one of Anders’ friends, the girlfriend of his uncle, my friend Carol, and now Anders’ father. We spent most of the day in Oxie, at the church and the congregation home afterwards. The church is tiny and whitewashed, from the 12th century…it’s Malmö county’s oldest church. Anders was five when his parents moved to Oxie; his sister was 3. They only moved to...

17
Apr
2014

20 YEARS

I can still remember lots of details, though some things, like conversation or what we were wearing, have faded over the years. I wasn’t really interested in dating, but agreed to for a friend who was sure she had found the perfect guy for me: “He’s European! You lived in Europe!” I drove out to Linda and Nick’s townhouse where we met, and we all went out to dinner at some suburban Chinese place, and then we rented movies and went back to their place. After the first movie, Linda and Nick fell asleep on the sofa and we stayed,...

15
Apr
2013

WEDDING PLANS & GARBAGE CANS

In the interest of helping my daughter be more organized with her homework, school books and papers, I promised to give her a large plastic case I had up in the back of the closet. It’s bright blue with 10 or so pockets and a flap that folds down over the front and closes with elastic bands. The pockets were all neatly labeled and there was an index card in a pocket on the front listing the contents of each pocket as well: ceremony, flowers, reception, catering, photographer, etc. I bought the case in 1995 and used it to hold...

12
Jan
2013

HAD TO BE DONE

The other day I beat my husband home from work by only a few minutes. I had just sat down on the couch when he came in. It’s cold again here in Sweden after several weeks of rather warm for winter temps and rain. We had a dusting of snow last night and I’ve plugged the car heater in each evening for making sure I could start it in the mornings. When he walked into the living room I tipped my head back and said, “Hey there.” He responded by putting his hand on my forehead. It was ice cold....

05
Dec
2012

AUTO KNOW BETTER

I keep meaning to write, but when I look up from whatever it is I am currently working on so I can cross it off my to-do list, it’s after 10 and I need to go to bed. I keep meaning to read, but that darn to-do list squeezes out new items when I’m not looking and grows again. I keep meaning to get things done, but first I have to do this, and before this, I have to do that, and before that, well, let’s just say that it squeezes in both directions. Every time I looked out the...

01
Jun
2012

IN A HEARTBEAT

It poured rain the day we got married. By then I didn’t care, though a few days earlier I would have probably gone bridezilla if someone had warned me about the weather forecast. By the time our wedding day dawned, we had done everything we could to make sure the day was as perfect as possible and would go as smoothly as possible, and I had given up responsibility for the things I had no control over. Everyone kept telling us that it was good luck that it was raining, anyway. It was most important to me that we have...

08
May
2012

XO

It’s Anders’ birthday today. As far as I can tell, he really liked his presents, which makes me glad because I worked really hard to get good ones that he would be happy about. I’m the luckiest woman in the world to have this man in my life. I hope you know that, honey. And I hope you had a good day, despite having to work 🙂 XOXO

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