child labor...

thomas says zoe is 2 now, so that means she is old enough to earn her keep. that is right, time to call child protection services, we are exploiting the free labor. scrub that stove baby!

family portrait

after weeks of begging thomas to cooperate with a new family photo for 2008, i finally got one...

work, work, work...

i counted up my hours, and i somehow managed to work 80+ hours last week. thomas and i went to copenhagen with svb again to sandblast an oven. zoe stayed with farmor and farfar, i think she had more fun, what do you think?

my 1st time

so it's time to lose my blog virginity. it's twenty to seven and as normal this is the first time there is time to relax... work was easy today (for once) sat in the car for 3 hours and the rest of the day was just doing easy job in the sun that we didn't really need to do but just because we were 150 k away we had to do something. oh well. eimi worked over today so i had a nice relaxing 2 hours with zoe arguing that she did not need the binkie in the forest, while taking a bath, cooking or petting the dog. a lot of screams and tantrums. but I WON. eimi comes home and 5 min later zoe had her binkie in her mouth. the rule is that if in bed she can have the binkie. so she stayed in bed for a few minutes then it started over again... -tom can you deal with that i'm shaving my legs... so, again, you don't need the binkie when playing, petting the dog, cooking or making a pretty, very beautiful drawings for daddy (that one almost sold me...) sometimes 5 minutes feels like for#$% ever.  

oh well time to get some socks its getting cold. 

and i'm gonna end this with something that i know will make you jameson girls speechless. 

a quote from eimi-

 "zoe you have to eat more chicken before you get more rice!!"

all in the eye of the beholder...

as much as i adore our old vw bus, it was time to get rid of it. i have been talking about fixing it up for years, but never had the time, and now we have not even started it for 2 years. last year we put a advert in the used buy and sell website my mom is so addicted to, blocket.se, but we only got one small email from a guy that never wrote back. today we put a new picture in....
zoe was determined to help wash Wanna (that is what we call the bus). and we raised the price by about 15o dollars and wrote that she did not run. within 2 hours we had four people call and said they were very interested. 15 minutes ago it sold, for our asking price. strange, considering the car was in much better shape last year. it must be the model that sold the picture... go figure. so now thomas says i can spend all the money on my newest addiction, buying clothes for zoe at oldnavy.com!

crayfish party 2008

so we just had our big crayfish party this weekend, and i tell you it was the strangest thing. we had a big party with nearly 20 people, some of which stayed on, and we were so completely relaxed, we could not stress if we wanted to. the weather was the perfect, the guests were amazing, and zoe was the best entertainment ever. she sang, she danced, she peed her pants, what more could we ask for? we put a big copper pot in the middle of our yard and lit a huge fire, not once did we even have to say to her that should not go too close to the fire, i cannot understand how thomas and i ended up with such an intelligent and obedient child. who would have thought it? need to get my camera out and download some photos. hmmm, promises, promises, i will probably never do it...