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Little Christmas the 23rd.

Christmas for me is spending time with family. This Christmas is in Norway, with both my biologic brothers. My oldest brother has three kids, two teenagers and one on eight y.o. What a lovely combination!

When we woke up at 08.30 am we had breakfast and then we started with ginger bread baking.

I prefer teenagers where ever I am where I can help or work with. So to do things with my nephew on thirteen and my niece on fifhteen make my life easier and happy.

The little Christmas, the 23rd, went we out to play in the snow. The brothers started to make a fort/castle and me and my niece tried to slide in the new fallen snow.. haha what a joke! It did not work! But I figured out that if we asked the neigbor we might get it by sliding down the slope from the hay barn. (Picture below)

We played games inside, my middle brother and youngest nephew went out for a Christmas three…

Making candy…

We spent time together doing different things in the afternoon and me and my niece went for a walk to the grocery store to be able to bake safron bread.

In the evening, I think we where done with the safron bread at eleven pm.. They taste so good!

A good day with lots of fun and nice things happen.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Cellphone, 2 books and family time 4 X-mas.

Before I catched the train I started my traveling with a good cup of americano from Esspresso House in Lysaker. I’m in my way to Sør-Trøndelag for Christmas. First time ever and I’ve lived in Norway for a bit more then ten years.. funny how it can be.

I took the train from Oslo to Hamar and shifted there to the next. I knew it would be a lot of people but it was like a surprise it was so many from Oslo that traveling the same way as me.

(I had to do something about my hair and this is the result) But here I am. On the train. Only my cellphone and books with me. I will not be on Facebook at all for five day‘s and I am looking forward that. To spend time with family or go for a walk in the snow. Tired as normal when I get on a train.. Normally I fell a sleep just after the ticked is checked but not this time. Maybe because I’m blogging.. but I could easy fall a sleep! Anyway.. after five and a half hours of traveling by train I’ll see my older brother which I have not seen for two years (!) Live in his home and enjoy whatever he is doing and also be with my second brother and his family when they are coming tomorrow the 22nd of December.

We are all (exept my brother who lives there) traveling away from home to celebrate Christmas. It was two tears ago since last time (!) or maybe even three years (even wers!) Anyhow, I will enjoy spending time with my family.

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas!! And I hope you will have a good time off work, time of Joy with your family or close friends. And enjoy Christmas with all it comes with!

I will probably blog about Christmas in Haltdalen, Trøndelag so you also can see and made get your curiousity of traveling in Norway and Trøndelag.

/Mia–Simone.Svenberg

Creative infront of the television

Reparing knitted socks infront of whats on Eurosport ☺

This is me when I relax infront of the TV with a good game of Ice-Hockey or some down hill – Alpin sport 😊

I manage to fix many socks if it’s a lot of good sports ob the television like Saturdays most are.

Something my dear Mom learn me a long time ago. ❤

And here is the result of one sock 😉

So it’s not just sewing that is relaxing! But that too…

Here is my “table” which actully is my floor. It is easier to work on the floor even if my cat boy Silver likes to come and sit on the fabric…

Here I am needling up wher to sew. Following the stripes so the jeansfabric don’t make “bobles” under.

It’s gonna be a bag for a blow-up-bed so you easy can carrie it with you.

Work in process…

The first Snow this November

The first snow came this Tuesday the 14th of November at 08.30 am

and it did not stop until 12.30 pm ☺

By 3.15 pm when I left work this was the view..

And this is my normally walkpath and so much more beautiful it is with snow ❄☺

And the sunset ..

But then two day’s later the rain came..

and offcourse with low temperature during the night…

…like a real winter which mean everything became icy!

For some reason I am not surprised more sad that we can’t have a really good winter from mid November.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Winter breeze

The winter breeze with there cold air blown in over Oslo few weeks ago. It means that the air is cold (minus degrees celsius) not just chilly anymore but the thermometer sais plusdegrees (read below) But the nature looks like this..

It means that most people wear feather jacket now, winter hat and knitted glows. It shows on the thermometer, it might say +3 (but it means -4° C) not that cold no. But this coldness is the one that goes straigt into your bones. 😑 Doesn’t matter how much wool you have on you you will freeze.

It might be hard to understand if you never experience it. It doesn’t look like it’s cold.

The mornigs are bright and lovely!

Today the 11th of November is the first morning when the thermometer shows under 0° Celsius

and the ground is white of frost 😊 and the weather cast sais the ❄ is coming 😊

Morning light the 10th of November..(above)

Cold ground, it could look like snow but it isn’t

But ice on the water is defenetive a sign of colder Days 😊

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The feeling of turning on the music and the television off…

The feeling of turning the music on and the television off. 🙂

This weekend is that just what I have enjoyed. I spent some hours in my couch on Friday evening more because I couldn’t be on my computer after a migraine attack. But I can’t say I watched the programs on the television, no it was more in the background.

So what better isn’t to just turn it off?!?

Yesterday did I sew some and fix some with the sewing-machine and no TV 🙂 after that I went out to be social and celebrate a friend on her birthday. A good decision!

Today I woke up with some ache in my body so I had the TV on in the background, it was some interesting sports and then some boring sports.. haha but after that I had vacuum cleaned my place I felt for some piece and quite.

So music on and I reached for a book, where I am in the end but it’s like I never end it no I rather start a new book..but now I’m gonna finish it! 🙂 So I peacefully can start a new “fourth book” or maybe it’s just a “third book”..

I think it’s okay to read more then one book as long as you know the different and what’s in which book. I usually read 3-4 books parallel with each other. Therefor can’t I read 5 books (well technical I can) but I don’t think it’s so smart. I had a discussion about this with a friend last week, she can’t read more then two parallel of each book and she is fascinate about people like me who read more then that and I am fascinate over those whom only read one book. My mom rad only one book at the time but she also “swallowed” the books she read and she had a hard time to put them away. i am a bit of the opposite of that in my reading.

20171029_202946 — Men are from Mars women are from Venus (gonna start to read it. Millennium, Wedding dress and Summer breeze.

For me it’s more of a thing to read different genres/type of books and get a better vocabulary because I love to read both in Norwegian and Swedish and English. And when you read more than one book and in more than one language you should be able to increase the vocabulary. 🙂

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Mid October beauty

October is the month of breeze in the morning that looks like fog and with naked trees and lonely leafs hanging there. A beautiful season just like any other season of the year. How lonely a leaf can be in the wind but still shine up a person walking past. How all those colours that still meets us in the morning on our way to work, gives me a big doze of inspiration I bring with me the whole day. How wonderful the nature looks like every Day! I just can’t get enough! I love this season. Let it never end (I know it will) but right now, no please.

How the rain when it suddenly comes «from nowhere» and wash the street and clear the air. How the chilly air in the early morning really wakes you up and realizing the winter month isn’t far away anymore. November is just a round the corner. A new season is coming. But still, to stay in the moment, BE, THINK. To reflect over the Day’s that past. What did I do? Did I enjoy the day and all the colours?

Since I started at Radisson as a trainee I have realized I appreciate nature in an other way then I have done before, a bit like in the same way as I think I did as a child. I see, I watch, I enjoy. I think of what I see, how is it possible to get so strong colours on a single leaf? Could the human person make something similar? Or is it only one who is behind all this? For me it hasn’t always been for sure. I have been far far away from God for many years and I was not as sure anymore during those years. How far away was my thinking to someone else who doesn’t believe in something “bigger” than us human? I am curious how other thinks not that I will change my way of thinking over the day but still. How many are not living there lives day out and day in without reflecting on how other people think?

How do you think about seasons in the nature?

How do you think about the life you have made?

Are you happy or just pleased?

Here I am, sitting in my favorite chair, with my legs up on the “cat tree” with the view of the colorful trees outside my window and one of the cat’s above me on the shelf. The sky that changes all the time, slowly and nice. Giving me inspiration to write again. Listen to ABBA…

The swallows are still flying around wondering when they fly south? What a beautiful Day we got! And I have to clean my house before I’ll go out… But that’s okay.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.

Tourist in my own city – Oslo.

Today have walked around in Oslo with a new friend. She is a Couchsurfer from Ireland/Brazil and stay with me this weekend.

We have explored the park around the Castle/Palace in Oslo and here are some pictures.

Queen Sonja’s park..

Sculpture in the park ⤴️⤵️

Outside the Castle/Palace one of three path’s to catch the train to or from Oslo at The National Theater.
Me and my new friend Thaysa split our ways here. She wanted to explore more of Oslo and I went down to Aker Brygge and the Farmers market. Here are the picture of my walk alone.

Street musician ⤴️

The Farmers market ⤴️

The city hall ⤵️

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Who can say where and when the nature is beautiful?

Why is it so, that most people who take pictures of the nature take pictures of the green leafs during Spring and Summer and the colourful flowers in the Autumn more often then on the dying or dead leafs, flowers and fruit and berries?

What about the beauty of a dead leaf or flower? It has been alive and now it’s not anymore because of the season of the nature.

I will share what I think is beautiful.

Autumn, my season

I love the Autumn and have since I was a kid. It is something about all the colours, the rain and the air.

It gives me more energy then any other season. For me it’s a positive time.

I love the Autumn rain because it most the time comes fast, hard and leave most the time fast but I also like it when it’s rains for day’s. It’s something beautiful with rain.

But it’s also all about all those beautiful colours! The nature has in my eyes a special power when it comes to colours. Just how different all kind of leafs changes colours from Day to Day is a WOW feeling!

How a flower which is both blooming and over-blooming and still is so beautiful.

Or when a leaf goes from green to red!

How beautiful a yellow feld can be…

And how a waterstreem flows through a subarea and the sound of it give you harmony just pasting it above it..

How beautiful it is to walk with trees on both sides that shifting in colours ☺ or pasting this with the contrast.. 😉

It gives me lots of inspiration, Joy and energy even if I have a bad day or a cold. 😉

Who can not like or love this?

Healthy snacks.

In this time you hear and can read about healthy snacks wherever you want if you are in to it. But how msny times do you really do any if those you saved “to do later”?

I love to eat chochalate balls but I rather use fresh figs and shifting some of the other ingredients then just use the normal ingredients.

Those (in the picture) has, oat, less sugar then normal, oil, fresh figs, cacao powder, a splash of coffee, vanilla sugar and half a deceliter protein powder.

Normally would I also ad dades but I didn’t have any..

Try it, it taste good and your sweetness disappears when you eat these as you get fed faster because of the protein powder. 😉

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Grace and new friendship.

God has humor!

I thought I just said yes to a random Couchsurfer for this weekend, but he showed me wrong. He sended a girl who needed to here some of my life experience and about my path with God to see positive on her adventure here in Norway.

She came more then less directly from her brothers Wedding on Friday in Polen to me in Oslo on Saturday (yesterday). Tied and only wanted to rest which she did. 😉

We had many good conversations about life, faith and how to see what and when God is talking. 😊 We watched tve movie War Room (which I think everyone should see no matter what you believe.) It has humor, lots of things to learn if life and if you are a believer, many good advice of how to grow with God. She told me after the movie that she needed to watch it, that it was good for her. So glad I were to hear that.

Grace was the word that we talked a lot about those hours she stayed with me and how grace can be a part if our life in different situations of life. How God has showed me grace in all kind of life-situation and how God has provide me with what I need or how God have closed or open doors in my life when I trust God. How she can trust God. How to push emotions aside when the emotions turns into fear instead of the oppisite – happiness or peace in the specific situation there and then. When we come with high expections from what God can do, he do provide our life just the He lnows we need it.
Grace, love, trust and faith is some of the things he has given us to have in our relationship with him.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Colorexperimenting without chemicals at home.

How often do you think “can I color at home without chemicals?” Like old day’s. Or how do I do it?

I’ve been on Google searching for this. I found out that one way to figure it out is to actually try by your self. Just remember to ad 1 spoon of salt when you boil it! I boiled each color for minimum 20 minutes.

I wanted to find out if I could coloring at home without chemicals mostly because I know the chemicals isn’t good for me, the fabric or the environment.

I chosed to try red onion

I can’t say it colored much but it was white before.

Saffron ..

Green tea…

Curry …

Coffee-beans and filter coffee ..

Remember to ad 1 spoon of salt when you wash it afterwards and together with similar colors in the machine.

Have fun!

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

Blazer, pretty look and high heels.

New season. New job. New clothing. New colleges. I have started my new trainee-job at Radisson Nydalen in north Oslo. So far have I had “one week” it was actually only two half day’s with information. This last week was the proper week with learning some of my tasks for the rest of my time here. Except for the part that this week is the first week I needed new clothing. For me that meant a new wardrobe well at least one part of only office clothes. I can wear dark blue or black Jeans or nice pants, the blazer shall also be blue or black and I need high heels when I walk in and out from back-office. If you’d asked me ten years ago that wasn’t me. Luckily both I and my work has changed.

I enjoy this work so far. It’s not just a job for me. It is in the environment I like. I hope this can lead to a proper job.

Since I started the course in office and administration two years ago, my dream was to work in Radisson Hotel. Which apartment I did not know and which hotel did not matter either back than. Now, after a year in the reception I know that is not me or where I can do my best. It was okay for what it was but to use my knowledge and learn even more in an office is where I get satisfied.

This feels right.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.

Station your Life.

I have not been able to go to church for weeks or months because of work and body. But last Sunday the 23rd of July I did go. And I did not just enjoyed the worship I also liked the preaching. It was like God wanted to remind me of important things about life.

The headline was: Receiving Guidance from God.

The important W’s…coming below.

Three ways to tune-in to God;

1, I must realize that God cares about the details of my life. Matthew 6:31-32. To tune-in to God. 2, Ask God a specific question. James 1:5a 3, Believe HE wants to Answer. Pray with exceptions to God. James 1:5b-6.

How to receive Guidance from God;

The first W; WITHDRAW. Get alone in a quite place. Focus on God.

Habakkuk 2:1. “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.”

This is something I have a hard time with. To have it quite around me… I like to have music around me. It’s easier for me to focus with sounds (even when I write a blog I need music to focus). So how will I do this?But I have found a time in my life when it’s more then less quite, and that is when I am out walking my cat. Then I talk to God, asking God for advice and telling Him how I think about things in my life. I guess God knows me that well that he uses me when I am surrounded by people in prayer, because that is my best “quite time”.

The second W; WAIT. Calm your thoughts and emotions. To be quiet. To station your life = don’t move. Good have make you good!

Sometimes it’s so hard to wait! To wait on answers, on God to make a move, to let Him take control. But it’s worth it. My time isn’t God’s time and that means that he do answer when he knows I am ready to hear what he has provide for me. I have learn that it is worth waiting on the answer after I have asked God for a specific thing. I also know that I can ask God for whatever I want. But it doesn’t mean he will answer everything I ask for. I call that faith to trust God, that he really do knows what I need.

The third W; WATCH. Let God give you a picture.

Habakkuk 2:1. “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.”

Ephesians 1:18. “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints”

Hebrews 5:14. “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their Senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

God is using my creative brain in many ways. One way is by giving me pictures when I pray for others. He has done that since the Day an other person prayed for me. But watch is also about how to let God in to your brain and let him be apart of your prayers in a visual way. Like, if you are in focus with God in your prayers God will use your brain if you let him. HE wants us to watch and write done what we receive from him.

The fourth W; Write. Record the ideas you’re receive.

Habakkuk2:2. “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.”

Benefits of write is… A)Keep you focus on God. B) Allows you what you said to God and what God said to you. C) Not every IDEAS is from the Lord.

When the woman who were preaching said this, and I thought this fit me. I write, a blog, that I feel I have got as a gift from God to do. And it was also like an answer from God and he gave me this line; “I want you to write more. More about your faith on me.” Which is what I at least do know.The woman who preached also said “always bring a journal with you so you can write down what God is telling you”. Nearly wherever I go I have this small notice-block with me if God is speaking to me or giving something to me. We should all have a notice-block with us. I also have a notice-block on my smart-phone, and I just have to say Thank you God for Apps !! Some of them are SO good!! 🙂

I do keep my focus on God and asking God what to write about in life. Out of experience I’ve learn the hard way that not every idea is from God but in my life many are! To write allows me to both remember what I said to God and to hear his voice.

The fifth W; WORSHIP. Thank God for speaking to you.

Habakkuk 3:2. “O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.”

Through your relationship with God, God will fill you. Believe in God. Became friend with God.

For me is Worship the Holy part of connecting with God and listen to what and if He has something to tell me, greetings to someone else or maybe a picture that says more then words. It’s my way to «Catch-up» with God. To sing out my prayers in the worship. To honer Him, He who is my Father. To be in his atmosphere and just enjoy and receive grace and love from Him. I always ask God to use me if He want or need me to give someone else a picture or a greeting, in the worship, because I know He hears my willingness to be used by Him.

We ended the preaching with this song; “You are a good, good father.” And the words in this song is powerful.

Good Good Father by Chris Tomlin. Good good Father

I’ve heard a thousand stories of what they think you’re like
But I’ve heard the tender whispers of love in the dead of night
And you tell me that you’re pleased
And that I’m never alone

You’re a good good father
It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are
And I’m loved by you
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

I’ve seen many searching for answers far and wide
But I know we’re all searching
For answers only you provide
‘Cause you know just what we need
Before we say a word

You’re a good good father
It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are
And I’m loved by you
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

Because you are perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways to us

You are…

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.

Haircut & walking in Grünerløkka,Oslo.

Yesterday I had to go to bed early (before 12 pm) to be able to wake up before 8 am this morning.. I did wake up in time.☺ Did my normally things and went out to catch the bus at 9.11 am and that was just about I reached it!
I took the bus to Storo and switch to the tram, even if I thought about walk a bit I didn’t. Not because I was lazy no more because I wasn’t quite sure where to walk and how long time it would take. So I reached Birkelunden tram stop and had enough time to buy and eat breakfast in a park nearby in the ☀️ on a bench. At 10 am I crossed the street and into the hairdresser Dugg, sat down and talked to the guy of what I wanted and he started with showered my head with Shampoo, an hair mask and the conditioner. And then he asked me if and what I wanted to drink. Coffee please. 😉

😉 But I got an **Cafe** **Latte**, it worked too.

And then he started to cut. He is a second year learning to become a hairdresser. For sure someone I’ll use again!

Two and a half hour later I was done. With a style I like! Fun and cool and not like anyone else 😉

I went out and start to walk down hill.. I wanted to find mail-office but didn’t 😕 so I walked different streets on Grünerløkka to the Aker River.

..went to Vulkan area and into the Food Market and bought an Paradis ice-cream before I visit “my hotel” had a chat with the guys there and continue walking…

Street-view along Aker River…

Colorful houses on the top of Aker River..

Plenty if walking today! Not the best back to walk with but in the same time I think it’s better to walk (and it’s nice) then just sit still. Over 9000 steps which for me is good (my limit is between 5000 – 6000 steps on a good Day).

/Mia-Simone

Couchsurfing.

Those last four days I have had a couchsurfer staying at my place. It’s been less tv and more walking and doing things even those day’s I had a really sore back. All good and interesting! In one way, I’ve been more creative then normal on the other hand I’ve watch less tv and actully listen to more music through my DVD player. 😉

I have had a profile on couchsurfing.com since -09. Since the Day me and my friend Lauren found it and tried it ourselfs. I haven‘t been so active the last one and a half year back cause of my work/trainee place. But then I thought earlier this last Monday. “Why not host during my vacation when I am mostly at home anyway ?” And it was where it started this time 😉 I have offered host next week too but I still waiting on answers..

This is the Ape50 Katja deives, the Couchsurfer who stayed with me. She has now left to drive, heading to the Swedish border today and ti Uppsala in Sweden.

She told me that she drives maximum 100km on one day with this 3wheeled moped. That’s quite far enough.

Overandout.

/Mia-Simone.

Beach, swimming, friendship, sun and wind.

20170715_152459 — The Oslo fjord. Waves. Wind. Sun.

On Friday evening I got a txt msg from my neighbor and friend, if I wanted to join her to the beach on Saturday and I answered her “I have a friend visiting me I have to ask her”. So I did when my couch surfer came back home. And we figure-out that Yes, we could do that but not to early. So we sat a time, 2 pm wasn’t to late and not to early on the Day.

Saturday the 15th of July.

We woke up before 10 am. I vacuum cleaned my apartment with my Robot-rob and my couch surfer went away to buy some oil to her Ape50 (3wheeled moped). We ate some lunch and packed and went for a walk down to the beach. A 25 minutes walk down hill from me to the beach. It was warm and with some wind. We walked by a cool garage with a chapel-clock on the roof and came to the white bridge over the E18 (Europe road 18) and there, the view over the sailing-boats and the glittering water. WOW! And the wind catching us in the face. Over the bridge and walking along on the sea side to get to the beach…

This view… I can’t get enough of it! It’s just so lovely!

I didn’t think of taking pictures here..I guess I’ve walked here so many times I didn’t need it but luckily my new friend Katja did.

Eventually did we reach the beach and find my friend and neighbor who went there few hours before us and we also went back around a corner to a spot where it was less people and it felt like it was more sun and less wind.

20170715_151813 — Katja and Olena, went into the water first.

I had to sit and rest my back after the walk so Katja and Olena went into the water first and I could enjoy the view of the beach, people and take some pictures. What a lovely day to e on the beach! This is Summer on the best. It was perfect weather, not to much wind, not to much people, not a bird as far as I saw. Blue sky with Cirrus Uncinus clouds – they appear as thin and fibrous like, except that they always have a hook or curl on the tip. Very cool clouds!

A Day to just relax and enjoy life. A day to be thankful over to have. And to be impressed of how beautiful God has created the nature, sea and everything we have around us. And how beautiful a small beach can be and how peaceful it can be to just sit there and enjoy the minutes that pastes into the future. I love to just sit and watch out over the sea, the waves, the clouds. To memorize it like a picture in my head so I can go back to that moment and pick it out and remembering it later again.

When the girls came back we all just lay down on our towels on the grass to enjoy the sun and they enjoyed the wind & sun to get dry, chat and shared food and homemade ice-tea. Took pictures of the moment and laughed of the pictures. Made moments to bring with us into the future, years ahead.

We tried to swim against the waves, we tried to float but no and we tried to stand still in the water with the help of the arms and legs in motion without reaching the bottom. We laughed so much it was hard to keep our heads over the waves and that became even more fun. We tried to talk to each other but the wind through away our words and that made it even more fun. All this in the water. Rough to do anything than swim well no swimming was also rough. After 3 hours at the beach we felt it was time go go home. Katja wanted to walk back home, me and Olena took the bus. And the funny part was that I said to Olena, “I bet Katja is home before us even if she’s walking” and she was. 😉

Back home we grilled with more laughs and lost of good burned veggies.

During our BBQ grilling I suddenly saw two ears in the grass. First I thought it was a cat or maybe a fox but it was a deer.

/Mia-Simone. Svenberg.

Holiday. workout & some sewing.

What to do with a sore back? I love to go to gym and do a good workout! How do I that with back pain? Well today is the 14th of July and the first workout in weeks..but I am here at the gym 🏋️‍♀️ pushing legs, pushing arms with weight and stretching my back on a Pilates ball. I will not go to hard out. No, I rather get here again on Sunday!

I always starts on this machine with 10 min inter-wall walk to loosen up my back and as the warm-up. Today wasn’t any different. 😉

I have to get into a good routine now in July! Not because it’s holiday but because if I make it this month I have a good routine to lean back on when I start my new trainee position at the 1st of August ☺ And I will also be able to go here whatever time it is on the Day, now in July. That’s luxury!

I will push myself to the gym no matter what I want to do, instead or doesn’t feel for it. Well the last doesn’t really exist for me though. The only reason to not go to the gym is if I’m sick or I’m away for some reason.

Lets finish this workout. 😉

Back home I’ll sew on a gift or two. And continue on my blazer-project (picture below).

But first dinner, a walk in the ☀️ with Sussi-P, edit this blog post and probably some ☕ for my dear brain.
/Mia-Simone Svenberg

Summer memories

Today the 11th of July isn’t the best day for me in the way I did something stupid yesterday and so..my back locked it self… But hey I’m not sad for that I could if I didn’t know better. No, I’m quite happy anyway! I can write, read a book or nearly do anything. 🙂

I got happy news from dad on txt. Mom has been up & dressed and sitting in the sitting-room for 45 min today !! That’s big!! She mostly been laying bed since she got back from ER about 3 weeks ago. Dad also told me, when I talked to him yesterday, that mom just close her eyes but is awake and if someone sings for her she wants to sing along but can’t find the words. She is still with us, just in her own way. ❤

Music has been a part of her life many many years. She was a part of the church choir. She didn’t sing good but she sang because she liked it. She didn’t care what other people thought about her voice. Funny mom. 🙂 And I think it is very important for those who can’t talk as they get sick and old, that music or a pet should be more around them so they can feel and recognize something they have had around them so many years of life.

I googled “summer pictures” like those …

sommar i norra sverige — It’s as normal in the summer as in the winter.

and thought why do I google it when I have my own summer pictures I can use? And what is a good summer picture for me? Is it memories with mom just because she is sick now? or is it because we had so many summers together alone without the rest of the family? Or because we did a lot of things together like berry-hunting or long walks or all those days we spend on “our” beach? Whatever it s, it is good memories with ❤ mom ❤ . I’ll find some of them! I just have to dig into my external-hard disc or maybe even into one of the boxes with photographic… But I will find them!

skylt v örträsk — This sign, is more home feeling then anything else..

johan_philipsson_hilduinen — Hilduinen, a sculpture of the man that came to our village in 1678.

And how many times hasn’t we been there, looked at this sculpture and talked about how he walked through Poland, up through the Baltic countries, Finland and in to Russland and back to Finland over the border to Sweden and to our small village. This man married a girl named Katarina from the area and I am the 5th girl after her that carries the middle-name Katarina. Isn’t that fascinating!

Both Moose and reindeer and brown bear is quite common where we have the cottage, where both me and my mother are born. We have respect for those animals. But I can’t say I am afraid of them. I’m summer grown up with wild animals in the forest, deer, lingonberries, blackberries, blueberries but no apples because it’s to north up to survive the winter.

I could write so much more about this. Maybe an other time.

Holiday 10th of July

Here I am. Laying in the bed and enjoying the time. I have a proper holiday this summer. I have payed holiday. Something I haven’t had since last job more then seven years ago.. I have a plan. To take it easy, enjoy every day, be a tourist in my own city.

I start my holiday to mot do much. What a feeling! Like those two..

I woke up with two cats in bed 💕 and that hasn’t been normal for the last 8th months only the last few weeks. But what a joy it is to see they getting along more and more!

I will try to blog those Days I do something and take pictures of what happen that day or those Days.

/Mia-Simone 10th of July 2017

Energy kick

A lot of things in life can be an energy-kick. For me is it to help friend with different arragemang. Like now I’m helping a friend-couple to plan and coordinate there’s Wedding. I love it most Day’s. It’s though some day’s and easy some.

But it is a boost of energy to do it! I would not switch it with someone else.

I have done it before, the planing, so I know what to do and ask the to be Wedding couple. I think this is my 11th or 12th couple I help. It hasn’t always been that I am the planer. I’ve been the waitress, the assistant in the kitchen, the decorator, the host (opposite of Toastmaster). So I would say I know what I’m doing and I have enough experience to go bigger if the market is big enough.

It’s now only one Day to the big Day and the details falling in place. Hopefully have all the guests someone to drive with. 😉

But today I take it slow and prepare the last things. Will try to buy the very last things for me before the big day. I’ve learn one big thing for myself. If I will do more in this area I have to get payed and I need to be free seven day’s before the Wedding Day for all the details. Even more important if I’m invited to the party. 😉
I’m blessed to be a part of all this but I did to much. Well I have learn my lesson! 😉

Pictures from the Day..

The stunning bride to be walks with her brother in to the groom to be..

The nerveous groom Thor Christian and his best man Daniel.

After the service..

If Thor Christian could wish for one car it would be a Mustang and he got his wish come through. A Mustang-70 to drive on the Wedding Day !! 😍😍

Here is some pictures from the decoration the Bride did and pictures from the party..

/Mia-Simone. 7th of July 2017.

Inspiration.

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I google those to get inspiration to tattoo’s and I think I have found tree out of four butterflies I like. Those are uncommand butterfly’s.

Now I just have to decide where I want them… I will pray over it to and see if God let me do them in the future, like when I prayed over to continue of the one I have; P.U.S.H. – Pray Until Something Happens. I want to have F.R.O.G. – Fully Rely On God. Both those stands for my way back to God, how I got saved and how I trying to live my life. I prayed over it a whole summer and my answer was “I allow you to do that but but praying hands between the words”. So, yes I pray for everything in my life, even a tattoo. Cause I know got wants whats right for me. And I’m not an evangelist, I talk about my faith when people ask me things about life. And a tattoo is often something people ask “what does that stand for” and then I have my chance to tell them 🙂

The Butterflies will be for people that have made a big impact on my life through my life since I was a kid. Like one butterfly for my bonus grandpa, one for my bonus grandma (when she is gone which isn’t get), one for my mom’s ant and one for mom when she is gone.

I am thinking of to have grandpa’s and grandma’s on the thigh and the other two on the leg. I want them to be as natural as possible and in 3D maybe on a flower or a branch.

Butterflies stands for changing and all of my relatives have been through changes in there life’s in very different ways and I have too. So it fits.

I’m not the kind of person that make a tattoo just because I like something. No. I want it to stand for something. Make sense, you know.

So now when I kind of know what and where I want them, I’ll ask God and wait to the Day I afford to do/male them. I’m not sure I’ll do them here in Norway cause is horrible ecpencive! But my wish is to do them as soon as I get a job. In the future. I been thinking of this for the last 10-15 years anyway so I guess I can wait few more 😊😊😊

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

To cry for something beautiful.

I cry when I read something beautiful or watch a beautiful movie or when I watching someone helping someone else like in the series “Extreme Make Over, with Ty Pennington”, because it touch my heart.

I cry, when I read my own words for my Mom. I don’t cry so often, but when I cry it’s like something I just need to do there and then. Like God knows when I need to cry.

I cried when I received the sad news of my bonus grandpa was gone and that I didn’t have opportunity to be there when he went away. ❤

I cried when my mom’s ant past away, cause she had made an impact on me. And I still missing her humor and sense of cloths..and she has been gone for more then 15 years.. ❤

I cried when my first best friend Josef took his life. I was 5 years old. I lost my very best friend. The sad part is that my dad didn’t understand how good friends we were and how much it had meant for me to be there in the funeral with his parents. So I cried.

I will cry when ever Mom leaving us. But I also know it will be Happy tears.

When I cry it’s like something is healing on the inside.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.2017

Faith in the hard time.

To have faith on God in the hard time can be difficult. Why am I writing this? Well, my mom has for the last two weeks been in and out of the hospital.. She has Alzheimer (AD) and the end getting closer more then ever.

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It started with some cramps and she went to the ER by ambulance Monday the 29th of May. She stayed there for about 12 hours, then they send her up to IVA (intensive care section) and from there to section 61 (Medical care). She had got a lung-infection and she got antibiotics. She went stable and they could send her home to here Dementia service provider, Stenudden (see picture below).

Exactly one week later she went back by ambulance to the ER with new cramps, but this time it wasn’t the lungs. Thank God for that! But still… And both me and my brothers living far away from our Mom, my oldest biologic brother lives only 80km away but he has his family. And I don’t think it’s such big point for us to go and visit here in this last period. Cause we can’t really do nothing more then sit by her side. I don’t think Mom want us there either, cause that’s how she’s been saying all the years when she was healthy. We don’t know if she’s recognize us anymore… I makes all the calls to the different sections on the hospital and making sure that everyone has the right and newest information. Why, well I am such a copy of my mom and her personalities. I am a realistic person and have heard that through my whole life but the thing is that I like it too. I like to know the facts and to let to know that my family knows whats going on. 🙂 It just my way to show care and love.

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I guess it helps me to believe I am doing the right thing for mom. I like to coordinate things and help out my way. It helps me believe God is leading me to help others. My faith on the small thing like “let mom not have too much pain” or “let her live a bit more healthy from physical pain”. My faith also get stronger by knowing we have others standing in prayer for us as a family. I think its harder for my dad and brothers. The “hard part” for me is that she will not be there in the future, meeting new grand-kids or celebrate different things happening in life. The sad part I think is that she will never be apart of my future wedding, family and if children comes into the picture. But I know she will stay with me forever and she will be watching over each of us siblings. ❤

My ventilation is this blog. I clear my head and thoughts. I have faith on God to do what’s best for Mom here and now.

The nurses I’ve been in contact with on section61 is adorable! They care for mom ❤ they really wants to do the best for her and they let us know everything we asks for. I would like to send some flowers to them just saying “You helped us so much during those days of wonder. Thank you all”. I would like to go and meet them in person nest time I’m up there!

I don’t think we as a family could go through this whole process without all the prayers that we have around us. It is so many friends, family and others around us that prays for mom to not have to much pain in this last period in life with the sickness and for us as family to not “fall a part” but to get strength through this and love to each other.

I am SO Thankful for every-ones prayers!!! ❤ ❤ ❤

I pray for mom every evening before I fall asleep and I know whenever mom is leaving us, she will get it better! She has been an Christian believer in many years and she believes in Heaven and I know she will get it better up there. She will be healthy again and she will not have any pain. ❤ She will watch over us from above. ❤

20151121_113207 — I love you Mom. I know you knew that before you got too sick. ❤

stenudden_bild — Moms place, since 2015.

Tack mamma (SE) Thank you Mom.

Grattis på Morsdag 2017! 🌹🌹🌹 // Happy Mothers Day.

My thoughts goes to you dear mom.. This is written in Swedish for my mom who is sick with Ahlzimmer. I will not translate it.

Mina tankar går till dig kära mamma, där du ligger i sängen om natten, där du sitter om dagen, där du går i korridorerna.

Mina tankar går till dig lite extra nu när du inte har det så bra.. Jag hoppas du inte försvinner innan jag hinner träffa dig igen 💗 även om det blir din sissta dag. Jag hoppas att det som är tråkigt idag blir till något mycket bättre och att du kan njuta sommarens alla blommor 🌹🌼🌻🌺 som alltid har gjort dig glad.

Mitt hjärta slår för dig kära mamma, allt du har gjort för mig, mina syskon och andras barn.

Mitt hjärta slår lite extra för den du var när jag växte upp, att du fanns där och gjorde saker med mig. Alla minnen jag har med dig.

Tack kära mamma för allt du har gjort, delat och visst omsorg till mig. Tack kära mamma för dina värderingar och din kunnskap du delat med dig med mig. Tack mamma för att du gjorde mig självständig tidigt i livet. Att du leder mig att ta hand om mig själv och gav mig kunskapen om livet jag har hatt stor nytta av.

Tack mamma för att du har støttet mig och låtit mig göra mina egna misstag. Tack för alla somrar i västerbotten – hemma. 💜

Mina tankar går till dig varme dag. Jag önskar att jag kunde hälsa på dig oftare.. Sitta med dig utan att prata, bara vara. 💗

Mitt hjärta slår för dig för att jag inte vet hur du har det.. Älskade mamma 💗💗💗 hoppas du lever en stund till. Om inte, att du inte blir en grönsak utan att det får gå fort. Att du får sovna in, bli av med alla smärtor och att du kan sitta och se ned på mig från himlen när tiden är inne. 💗💗

Älskade mamma.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg Juni

.2017.

Rather to much then to less.

I have been planing to write a new blog for at least the last two or three weeks now…but I can’t decide what to tell. One week I started like this; “As we now have the Spring here most places in Norway or at least from Oslo and futher south, south-east and south-west most people wants sun and warmer day’s all the time but life and nature isn‘t like that. ”

The next thing I wanted to share was about my mom’s quote.

“Rather

to much then to less”

and it could be about clothing or food or actually whatever in life. Right now it’s about how many layers shall I have on from day to day. Just because it’s Spring doesn’t mean it’s warm all the time no, we had one week with +14-17°C and the next with +4-9°C… and next weeks forcast says it might be even-2°C 😣

Anyway…

Here is some spring picture for all of you who read this blog

Here is my catgirl on adventure in our garden.

This is from 15th of March-17.

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How do you think when the Spring comes?

Since my last blog has the Spring🌱 really come forward. ☺ Take today..It’s not just sunshine ☉ it’s a bit warm 🌡 too ☺ and during the night we went from ⛄-time to 🏖-time.

It’s even more then pluss four degrees during the nights now. That is a Spring Sign 😃 Flowers coming slowly up and our rubarbs (!)

I’ve got into a good rhytm of workout and got new shifts at PS Hotel 😉 som it works better with my body. Free Day’s = workout time for me.

(On the picture I’m back home and get my suger up with dates and suger peas)

The Media Free week was for me all about to do other things then watch TV or be out on Facebook. And I did do other things. ☺☺ l picked up a book to read on the bus, did some creative cards with old nailpolish and on the fourth day into my Media Free Week was the first day’s I watched a tv program.

Thursday and Friday was my free day’s off the Hotel and I planen to go to the gym on Friday but my back got locked 🤐🤐 Sadly the whole weekend 🤐 which off course was work related 🤐🤐.. Not even high heels 👠 helped me this time (which it normally do). My weekend shift ended on Monday (because I don’t work Friday) but before, I had to go to the chiropractor = the only solution …

All the snow is finally gone unfortunally the Pollen is here… I have to say som far hasn’t bother me much more then itchie eyes but you never know from year to year how bad it will be.

Two day’s ago had I my first PT–hour at the gym. It was challenging but fun! I like challenges when I know I can learn something out of it. And to be able to keep with the PT-traing I need a job soon!

/Mia-Simone

Media-free week.

I have made up my mind for a Media-Free Week this coming week. I will only post pictures on my Instagram profile. I will try to not watch so much on the television as I normally do. I will not be on Facebook or not even post a blog here this coming week. I just feel I need a Non Media Week again.

My goal is to become more inspirited to write more often then before and to have this Non Media week more often to clear my brain and to become more creative which I haven’t been in a long time. 😦 I need more time with God and less time from media! I need more time with friends and less time in front of the television!

I need a Time Out

I need a time out from Media again. And I know I should do it more often then I have done. I get so into some of the series on the television and I know I don’t need it. It’s been a quite long time since I even read a good book and I got several of them at home. They just standing there in the bookshelf… I will try to read at least one book this week because I miss it. You know you have so much other thing “you should do” and don’t take the time to just read a good book or meet up with friends… Well this coming week I will try to do things I miss and I will try it more often and hopefully get in to a routine of good habits. 🙂

Life should be about good habits in life and do what’s good for us rather then things we have around us that isn’t what we need but just have there!

I think we all need a Time Out from things in life a bit here and there. I think it’s good for us! I think that we live in a world with to much from the media that we don’t need. I’m thinking of all the negativity from the News rapports how much of that do we actually need?

How often is it some positive news? and if we see them do we miss to see all the bad stuff? Have we gotten immune to see all the bad stuff or have we gotten in to a habit to see all the shit – that we think we need it?

Take a Time Out from something you normally do and think about it. Do you miss it after one day? are you so addicted to it that you think you need it? well if the answer is yes, you need to have a time out from it! You need a Media Free Time!

I wish you good luck!

/Mia-Simone.

Spring signs

When I woke up yesterday 7.50 am it was foggy. I could not see far. But as I was preparing to get ready to leave to do my shift at PS:Hotell the fogg went away. Luckully me. And as I was walking to the bus I realizing that was really good cause our street is so iceie and with fogg I do not believe I would have seen much. I would probably been closest to “stand on my head more then on my feet”.

When I was waiting on the second bus I sawing this spring sign

Even if we got snow few day’s ago this sign and hearing the tipical birds this time of the year is sign of the Spring for me.

While I was waiting on the second bus, which by the way was 13 min delated, I got a glibs of the Sun and blues sky which we haven’t seen for a week I think… It was nice.

Aventurelly I got to the Hotel and started my shift. Unuselly shift. This weekend, started on a Thursday, have we festival guests. A festival called by:larm. It’s some kind of mucission festival. I can’t say more then that right now.

Anyway, we made waffels and had coffee and played quite loud music ♫♫♫ inside which we never do otherwise. Kind of fun actually. Lot’s to do. 😉

Around 7 pm it started to snow, light snow ❄❄❄ and soon it was White every where outside. Kind of cozy in one way but it will not be staying long. No, this snow will probbly help the old snow to melt faster. It happens every Spring. People just “don’t remembering it from year to year”.

I don’t know if people don’t want to remember or they just don’t care. What happen with the knowledge from our grandparents generation about all seasons? Is that totally gone nowdays? I learn it at home by my mom who worked as an teacher. Maybe I just like to learn things like this about the nature’s behavor.. Anyway.. We have more ❄ snow now than we had in January! Like most other countries in Skandinavia this winter. So I’m guessing that July and August will come with lots of sunny Day’s.

/Mia-Simone