Work out

I love my new work out routine.

I go to the gym every night after 9 -/because then there is less people.

I usually use the machine that is like running and you move your arms (?!).
I do a 5 min warm up - and then I have three options.

1) 30 min mountain interval. 3 min cool down (same machine), 500m rowing, and then the plank.

2) 40 min random, level 2 (same machine), 3 min cool down, the plank and some random exercises that comes to mind.

3) 800m jogging tread mill, intervals (the machine) 200m sprint (9km/h) and 200m slower (5,4 - 6,5 km/h) *5 on level 3. Some weights, arms, the few exercises I know and finish with plank.

Let's see how fit I can get before I get bored 😉

The plan

Because of my (unpaid) maternity leave (subsidised by my baking company) we will not be making any summer trip this year. The past two years we went to San Antonio for a week.

We will make the occasional beach trip, maybe go to the lake house, day trips - maybe somewhere for a weekend.

We need to save evey penny because I NEED to go 'home' this year for Christmas.
Not only because I highly dislike spending Christmas here - for various reasons; miss Christmas food, no snow, and becuas last year everyone else at the Christmas party were downstairs opening gift while I was waiting upstairs with two sleeping kids 👎 - but also because I miss friends and family in Sweden/Europe.

Sophia speaks about how she wants to go to Sweden tomorrow every day.

Sweden 2015 - let's do it.

Really

I am really not inventing how busy I am - Leon keeps me busy night time and work keeps me busy day time.

I just, just came back from the gym - it's 11 (23) pm. 😱 I should already be asleep.

Oh well, I will prepare a few posts for tomorrow while I eat my yummy post work out salad: baby kale, tomatoes, cheddar, avocado, chia and a Dijon- apple cider 'vinegar'.

Monday

Leon had a rough night, I am tired and even napped with him in the morning.

I will post a few more posts tomorrow.

The weekend was OK.
Saturday was raining. I was supposed to drive to Chapala to celebrate a friends birthday. But I don't like that highway when it's or is dark so I opted out of going - sadly.

I had a glass of wine, working in the project instead.

Yesterday, Sunday, it was father's day.
Memo doesn't do well with celebrations; birthdays, Christmas and all of the others. My dad is the same, so I am used to it.
It ended well.

More tomorrow.

Disruption

I am trying to work but Leon is having a tough day.
Ha does not want my attention on anything 👎

I am trying to finish the gifts for the teachers - no.
I would like to get some research done - no.

If I am lucky I get to use the bathroom.

Great gift.

Did I tell you I had the best teacher's gift idea?!
I decided to give Sophia's teachers,/principals and the cleaning ladies each a tomato plant. Great!
When I transplanted the plants into the individual pots they were max 5 cm tall.

This is how the look now.

I will also sneak in a picture of the view from Sophia's room - the world's most boring coto!

Sophia afraid

So.
Back to square one.
Although my map and sticker idea worked fine at the time Sophia is afraid again. She is back in our bed again every night - although if we are lucky she falls asleep in the bed, if we are not lucky she falls asleep under a table (her favorite spot).

Lately, she has been telling me she is scared of the door - I assume she means a shadow on the door (bathroom/closet or main door of her room).

Last night she stared crying - sometimes and falls back a sleep, so I waited a bit to see if she would stop or come running into our room.
Then Leon started crying too.
So I went up, passing by her too I decided to tell her I would be right with her, I would just check on Leon first.
But she wasn't there.

I found her hiding on the side of Leon's bed, scared to death, shaking and crying.
My poor big girl.
I am at a total loss as to what I can do.
Claudia told me to try and change her room, so I think I will put the travel crib in Leon's room tonight - tell her to help me take care of him. Let's see how it goes.

Any ideas anyone?

My garden

Things are happening.

There are baby tomatoes on the tomato (duh) plants and we already ate all the readishes. I am expecting to harvest the carrots and beets next month and the potatoes are growing.

How exciting! I am so glad I started this project.

Although, I should have read up a bit more on spacing plants, as well as not just throwing in a handful of seeds - now I have 5 bell pepper plants growing with my carrots and beets, and they usually need their own pot 😵

I will plan the next seeding session better.

Meeting successful

The meeting yesterday went exactly as we wanted it to.
So now it starts.
Planning, working and shaping out idea into the business-charity we want it to become.

Hopefully with our connections, knowledge and hard work it will be up an running (I hope) later this year or beginning of next.

This is so exciting, the subject is something that I really burn for - dislexia. I am lucky enough not to have it myself, but I got to see first hand growing up the struggles that it comes with - but also that with the right help it doesn't have to hold you back.

Go us!

Pondering

Lately I have been thinking a lot about this friend I used to have - this girl, maybe really not a friend any more.

We used to be so close.
I considered her one of my closest friends.
And then she wasn't.
I remember being hurt, trying to figure out why. But then life happened and time passed and I moves passed it.

She later explained herself. I 'understand' her, but I guess it still hurts - if I am thinking about it a few years later.

Last year she didn't even say happy birthday.

Funny how life turns, how someone who was so close to you now makes no part of your life - and you don't miss it.

I did not write this to make anyone feel bad, but just a reflection on how friendships come and go.

Anywho.

This is my night snack; cheddar, Serrano ham on dark bread.

The baking business

You were probably wondering what is happening with the baking business.
It's still up. It's still running.
I have a few orders a week, some weeks a lot and some weeks more 😀

We spoke to the delicatessen store and they are still waiting for their new store to open - it was supposed to open in a month or two and now we need to wait until November.

Oh well...

Leon

Leon turned 7 months the other week.
The pediatrician is happy his weight is more normal - I.e. he is less fat. This is due to this fact that he started crawling ( but like a snake, not actual crawling). He is going for the slow but steady technique - so no high speeds yet.

He is about to get his first tooth. You can see the two lower ones through the skin. Poor baby, he will suffer for the next year while all the teeth break through.

He is eating a lot more and I will probably give him his first actual meal this or next week - potato, carrot and cod.

He is sleeping really well waking up 1 or 2 a night - I hope to get that down to one asap.

He is as cute as the Gerber baby :)

Hurricane

Life has been a hurricane for the past few months.

Along with things going on with family, I have been incredibly stressed.
I am not 100% sure why, I guess I have felt overwhelmed, unnecessary in a way. I feel I have wasted myself - my education and experience.

I know this is totally wrong, and that it is only because I currently live jin a country where they do not believe in maternity leave past 45 days.
I know I am doing the best for Leon, but sometimes I feel I need to be able to be me.

So I got a gym membership. Those who know me from before will laugh in disbelief.
I know I always said I did not believe in gyms.
But, it's a way for me to have some time for myself, doing something only for myself.
I am feeling great.

Psychologically, after only a week I am happier and much more relaxed.
Good for me, the kids and Memo.

Project

I had this super brilliant, amazing business/foundation idea a couple of months back.
I mean,  for the first time I feel I want want to get back into work life - not for the money, keeping busy and so on - but for passion.

I have a meeting with a special someone on Wednesday - someone who would complete the team.
Memo being the one taking care of paper work in Spanish, me doing the business part and work, and she would add the brains, the knowledge.

I wish I was at a point where I could tell you we will be up and running in a few months - but I am still only on the planning stage - with a very clear view of what I want in my head.

Go team us.