Red Bull Baby?

Maybe this kid is getting Red Bull instead of milk. She's slept half an hour since she woke up at 7.30 this morning. So technically she should be very tired by now. This is what greets me when I look over towards the cot :)

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Kanske dethär barnet får i sej Red Bull istället för mjölk. Sovas ska det i alla fall inte... Det verkar vara mycket roligare att gå runt längs kanten på sängen!

Victory, even if it's a small one

Dealing with red tape is frustrating in any country, but in Saudi Arabia it is especially challenging. Just before Christmas we lodged the application for my family to come to Saudi Arabia for a visit. Getting this approval can some times be very quick, just a couple of days. But sometimes the process is long, usually for no particular reason at all. Unfortunately my family's application was subject to the latter.

But after having gotten all the right stamps (you need a lot of them over here, the more the better it seems...) in the right places and having resubmitted some of documents (this happens all the time, I guess they just cant be bothered looking for the paper so they ask you to give it to them again) we now have the government issued invitation letter in hand!

So now all that remains is for my family to trot over to the embassy in Finland, submit their applications with a wad of supporting documents, be willing to depart with some money and THEN a visitors visa should be granted. If all goes well they all be here in one months time. Can. Not. Wait.

The night shift (so far)

I have no idea how I got the idea in my head that baby clothes should be ironed... So here's the result of my last 45 minutes

I should probably hit the sack as I will for sure be called for other duties along the night :)

Sweet dreams everyone!

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Jag har ingen aning var jag fick iden att man ska stryka babyns kläder. Jag är nämligen så lat att mina egna skjortor är ostrukna, men lilltjejens kläder stryks med en nästan beundransvärd trägenhet.

Nu e de dags att försöka få lite sovet, jetlagen plågar fortfarande både stor och liten i dethär hushållet.

Half a decade and a day

Yesterday marked our fifth wedding anniversary. We celebrated by being completely jet lagged all of us. We had a great trip, I'll try to share some photos from it very soon :)

For now I'll share a photo of a very tired baby recovering from a long trip!

Happy New Year from Canada

A belated Happy New Year from Montreal. The weather here is a lot cooler than Toronto. No problems keeping a bottle if water cold. Leave bottle in a parked car for a few hours and you will get yourself a decent size ice cube :)

Today we're going skiing and snow tobogganing. Wish us luck!

Early bird

This day got off to an early start, although not by choice. Hubby dearest has not quite adjusted himself to Canadian time and he decided that waking me would be a good idea.

We headed off to check out the Boxing Day sales and we actually managed to bag a little something for all of us :)

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Greetings from Toronto! It may "only" be a 14 hour flight from the Middle East, but it does get interesting when you add an infant to the mix. An infant that feels that sleep is unnecessary because she much rather charm the socks of the flight attendants and our fellow passengers.

So we landed in Canada with bloodshot eyes and a broken suitcase. We also rubbed shoulders with some Saudi royals during the flight (my husband quite literally as he was sitting next to the young prince), but they were traveling so low key that we only realized as we were getting off the plane!