Were do I even begin! What a day!! We arrived at the airport and Fredrik picked us up (Eva's Husband) then we came back to their beautiful new home to be greeted by the happiest dog in the world, Sydney! She was so excited to see us and to have new people to play with and honestly, I was missing Runi so it was lovely to play around with her. After Sydney calmed down, we got to meet Eva's new baby girl, Victoria. She is so sweet (may have vomited on me in the first hour or so of me holding her, but it didn't matter!) Mum and I had some sweet little cuddles, she is so interactive and loves attention!
When we were making the salad, I went outside to Eva's garden to pick some lettuce, and I remember thinking, when my feet were on the grass, no one else was around, uhhhh I feel connected and grounded. I had a big sense of gratitude come over me that I get to do this. I get to take 2 months, come to Europe and live like they do here, for a brief moment in time. I thought to myself, this is really special and I am so grateful to be able to do this, and considered various points in my life that have lead me to this moment. It was like a wave of calm had washed over me. After a few moments I found the lettuce I wanted to pick and took them for the salad. It was such a beautiful day outside, so we took advantage of it and got to sit outside in nature. I think it was about 28 degrees, they considered it to be hot but I was really enjoying the breeze that was around, it was lovely.
The other thing that I really liked was all the fish, and all things Swedish! It all looks so good and the kind of food I like! It's true what they say, abundance illicits joy! This was very true for me in this moment. When we were on the adventure home, Vincent was walking. When he got out of the pram, I put my hand out and he took it! I was in! He trusted me, I was in!! When we got home, we were playing in the front yard for about an hour and a half. He is OBSESSED with insects! He would literally stop what he does when he sees one, yells out "Insecta" and points at it, watching it carefully, seeing what it does. He has been told not to touch them because it makes them "sad" but I am not confident he has learned that lesson yet. During our outside time, mum gave Vincent his little gifts. He was obsessed with them! Mum gave him his little finger puppets, a Koala and Kookaburra. He was flying them around for a long time and would not put them down. He told me in Swedish I couldn't have one. He did however learn how to say "Koala", "Spider" and "Flower" in English, AND he could say my name! Something Danae and Les have been trying to get Lekso to do. I tried to record it but whenever there is a camera in front of Vincent, he wants to see his face, so that wasn't terribly successful.
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