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 …

polcirkeln
This is home for me.
sommar i norra sverige
It’s as normal in the summer as in the winter.

mygg

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!

20140909_144315
My own pic with Mom.
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.

My furnitures has arrived.

I went to Sweden Saturday the 18th of June because I had to go and get my things from the storage place I’ve used for all the years I’ve been living here in Norway (soon 9 years), if I didn’t go and get it it would have been send to a 2nd hand store which I did not want.

We left around 8:20 am from Oslo, me and two strong male friends from my Church. A trip that took longer then we thought it would take. It isn’t longer then 400km one way and it should take around 5,5 – 6 hours but it took nearly 7,5 one way. Well we had our lunch-stop at IKEA Karlstad…

20160618_112728
IKEA Karlstad.

So we arrived to Svärdsjö, outside of Falun, Dalarna at 2 pm outside the chapel which was the storage place – Svärdsjö is really on the country side! Cozy farming area about 26km northwest of Falun. We walked around stretching our legs before we started the packing into our Van, which went smoothly even if I found stuff I totally had forgotten, we were done in 2,5-3 hours. Hit the road hungry so our first stop was for food at MAX – a Swedish burger business. Back on the road at 8 pm with the same amount of Scandinavian miles a head of us (400km).. few necessary stop’s like peeing and gas otherwise just a lot of laughs in the car. We came finally home to Oslo around 2 am Sunday-morning maximum tired after nearly 17 hours on the road. Crazy trip!But now it’s over. 🙂

20160618_195650

MAX Falun. The Van with the “burger as a crown” was our.

20160618_202131
Borlänge, Sweden.
20160618_201952-1
Following E16 to Oslo.
20160618_204133
“Grab a coffee” at Djurås, Dalarna.
20160618_204515
Pasting on the road-trip..

God have prepared a lot before the whole trip started! and I have been SO blessed through the whole trip! God made me be able to borrow a business-car for free via a friend in Church only gas to pay. Strong male friends from Church and an other guy helped me unload on Monday. All this is a “WOW”-feeling for me who hasn’t a job and whom mainly just go to the gym twice a week and is home and “just being creative”. I feel blessed to have a Church with so nice and good friends that can help out in this kind of situation!

We carried it all in Monday and it look like a mountain on the middle of the floor…Luckily I can sort it out and that I have storage space in the apartment. 🙂

20160619_151605

For the first time in my “new” apartment I finally have my table from my mom’s ant I been missing a lot to sit and be creative at, read, sewing or just write the blog-post’s. A table I in-harried from my mom’s ant in the 90’s. It’s just in-front of the window. I created a good inspiration-corner. It gives me “flash back’s” to Carrie in Sex & the City, how she sits and write her column to the news paper. It’s not near the same view but it is a window spot.

So here it is, in my not to big apartment my “creative-inspiration corner”…

20160621_122744

I did quite much between 5 pm Saturday and 02 am Sunday morning! When I woke up Monday morning I started where I stopped. And one of the first thing I manage to do was to drag the table over the boxes in place. So nice! And in the middle of “to sort out” yesterday I had laundry Day…and it started to rain just after I had hanged my laundry out to dry in the wind… well well isn’t that life so say. 🙂

And here I am writing a blog-post on the laptop on the table. Happy feeling! But I still today have some boxes to sort out and to move away and see how much more that will go to Fretex (the 2nd hand store here in Norway).

I can only say I am blessed to live here not just because my Land Lord and Land Lady. I have been blessed in so many periods here in Norway. God is so real for me. He is a part of my Daily life and I know he provides everything in my life, both with the people I have around me and also everything that happens in my life. As I wrote higher up, I don’t have a job and I haven’t been working in the last five years and still God walk beside me in everything I do. I know that everything I have done so far has been a part of his plan for me. And God provides me with food, like dinner with friends and cloths when my finances is bad. He sorts out things in my life like I am sorting out my belongings in the boxes right now. He leads me into new social activities and groups so I can meet new people when I feel I walking around in a circle with many of my old friends. He leads me on new paths in life and what to do.

He have showed me several times during those soon nine years I’ve lived in Norway that it is here He wants me to Live and now I do not have anything left in Sweden that holds me there.

I’ll show you the creative thing I did yesterday.

20160620_121407
Coffee cups with painting before they got into the Owen.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg