Spring is in the air
Sorry about the response delay to all of your great update emails. We had a cable access glitch and it took a few days to remedy. Also, I will have skype on for the next few evenings (mornings your time) to chat as well. Missed you all last weekend.
So, I am definitely feeling this resurgence of Spring and regrowth. It is getting less frigid (you know it has been cold when Rob said it was warm yesterday and the temp was 40). The snow has melted and the days are lighter. We have daylight from 6 am to 6 pm now. When daylight savings time comes, in the next week or so, it will be light until 7 pm. That is so huge here!!! It feel the energy is coming of the looooooonnnnggggg days when we arrived last year in early June. Then, it will be dark by 11 pm and light around 3:30 am. So, it is exciting. I was also trying to be positive about the lack of sleep we get because we have small kids. I was thinking that this will be a good place to have this part of our life because we are awake all the time and now we can enjoy our dazed day. Rowan sleeps now, but wakes between 5:30 and 6. They both go to bed early, but we get so excited to have time to ourselves that we end up staying up late just to, well be adults, and have a complete thought without interruptions.
I have also become used to how healthy food is here. We took Rowan and Saniya to a children's museum last weekend. All of the cafes here are sandwiches, salads and fruit, etc. We were commenting on how this would be pizza and hamburgers at home. There really is no fried fast food here at the cafes (which is where most people stop to eat). There is McDonalds and Burger King around. Although, more common are kebab huts and hotdog carts on every other corner and are really what people will stop for in a hurry. In front of the library, is a crepe stand. That is kind of where people are at with the food thing.
Also, with food at home we shop differently. I have not bought lettuce for months. We make this traditional Swedish cabbage salad instead. It is shredded cabbage, carrots and onions tossed with apple cider vinegar, sugar and pepper. Lettuce is sold live in little individual pots with the soil and everything. It seems to wilt if you don't eat it that day (in the summer this is not a problem). Different.
Ok, lots of hugs to everyone,
Yasmiene
So, I am definitely feeling this resurgence of Spring and regrowth. It is getting less frigid (you know it has been cold when Rob said it was warm yesterday and the temp was 40). The snow has melted and the days are lighter. We have daylight from 6 am to 6 pm now. When daylight savings time comes, in the next week or so, it will be light until 7 pm. That is so huge here!!! It feel the energy is coming of the looooooonnnnggggg days when we arrived last year in early June. Then, it will be dark by 11 pm and light around 3:30 am. So, it is exciting. I was also trying to be positive about the lack of sleep we get because we have small kids. I was thinking that this will be a good place to have this part of our life because we are awake all the time and now we can enjoy our dazed day. Rowan sleeps now, but wakes between 5:30 and 6. They both go to bed early, but we get so excited to have time to ourselves that we end up staying up late just to, well be adults, and have a complete thought without interruptions.
I have also become used to how healthy food is here. We took Rowan and Saniya to a children's museum last weekend. All of the cafes here are sandwiches, salads and fruit, etc. We were commenting on how this would be pizza and hamburgers at home. There really is no fried fast food here at the cafes (which is where most people stop to eat). There is McDonalds and Burger King around. Although, more common are kebab huts and hotdog carts on every other corner and are really what people will stop for in a hurry. In front of the library, is a crepe stand. That is kind of where people are at with the food thing.
Also, with food at home we shop differently. I have not bought lettuce for months. We make this traditional Swedish cabbage salad instead. It is shredded cabbage, carrots and onions tossed with apple cider vinegar, sugar and pepper. Lettuce is sold live in little individual pots with the soil and everything. It seems to wilt if you don't eat it that day (in the summer this is not a problem). Different.
Ok, lots of hugs to everyone,
Yasmiene
posted by Yaz and Rob at 7:50 AM
2 Comments:
so glad that you are back online, I think that you all have surpassed us in the day light hours...it was dark @ 6:00 today, but the last two day were bright and beautiful and didn't seem to be normal early March days. SOOOOO INTERESTING....maybe no, We are having Mom's night at the Lava lounge... so if you are free, meet us under the umbrella @ 6:00!
I hope it was great and I miss Mom's night!
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