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<\/p>\nAfter a simply lovely 3 weeks of having mom here, I had to hand her off this morning to the airport, where she flew down to see the Latest Main Attraction in Germany: her new grandson, Samuel Otto. I can hardly begrudge the fact that she had to leave, since I’ll get to see her again in just a few weeks, but it WAS tough to have to do it on my birthday, and the kids & I are lamenting how very empty the house feels without Lizardmom (or Anders!) in it now.<\/p>\n
The 3 weeks she was here were filled with lazy days, busy days, going places, staying home, seeing people, talking, and what was most important to me: just having her here integrated into our daily lives. I wish we lived closer so we could have more of that.<\/p>\n
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This feels very much like an in-between birthday. Not a big one, and definitely not one worth celebrating in any major way. Getting woken up to song & hugs & presents started it off nicely and a flood of greetings, well wishes, Facebook messages (so many!), phone calls & emails kept the birthday buzz bubbling during the day. <\/p>\n
The kids spent the day at farmor & farfar’s in Malm\u00f6 and I picked them up after work (which I left early), and we went downtown and hit the bookstore so I could buy the kind of present I like best: NEW BOOKS. \ud83d\ude42 And then we went out for the best sushi in town (seriously! still drooling), and home to yummy birthday spice cake with almond buttercream frosting. <\/p>\n
Another year older and what have I done? A lot, actually. \ud83d\ude42 And still so much more to do. 29 will be a good year, I think! Some days I feel really old. And some days I feel like I will die that day. And some days I feel like I will live forever. And most days? I feel like I haven’t aged at all (on the inside anyway).<\/p>\n
After a simply lovely 3 weeks of having mom here, I had to hand her off this morning to the airport, where she flew down to see the Latest Main Attraction in Germany: her new grandson, Samuel Otto. I can hardly begrudge the fact that she had to leave, since I’ll get to see her again in just a few weeks, but it WAS tough to have to do it on my birthday, and the kids & I are lamenting how very empty the house feels without Lizardmom (or Anders!) in it now. The 3 weeks she was here were...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,31,14,7],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek","tag-famdamily","tag-goodthings","tag-obiterphotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/255872_original.jpg\" "\\"Lizardek\\"")
\nMy lips look weird in this photo. They look skewed. No photoshopping or Botox involved, I swear.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"