Shopping & A Yummy Dinner

Our network here at the apartment is now spotty at best. Fredrik thinks we have used up the maximum bandwidth already so it has put us on a slow connection now. It makes it very hard to browse but even harder to blog. I hope I can get through this post! Since we were all up early today we are very tired now. It is just after 9pm and it feels much later than that. I have finished wrapping all the gifts and had our cup of tea as well. Now it is time to blog before bed. ;)

We got out of the house today before noon again and went and had lunch next door at the pizza/kebab place around 11am or so. It was nice and the pizza's were huge so I had to take part of mine home. We then went grocery shopping for a few things we needed and the ingredients for dinner I will be making on the 25th. It is salmon cakes on top of a salad so this dish is mostly for Erik and Cattis but I am sure everyone but Jan will enjoy it. He doesn't eat salad or fish! :) It felt like we are staying for at least another week with all the food we bought!

We headed over to Farmor's after we dropped off the groceries but decided to head out shopping before our dinner reservations at 4pm. We wanted to buy a car seat but needed Davin to approve it before we buy it. He agreed to go with us and Linnea seemed tired so Farmor agreed to watch her while we were gone. We also needed to use our gift certificate too so we headed to that store first. We ended up picking two big tea cups for Fredrik and I got a ceramic Swedish gnome that you can put a candle in and it lights up. I probably won't get photos of it until we get home since they are all wrapped up for traveling. I thought it was really cute. Next was the toy store that had the car seats but unfortunately, they were all sold out of the one that was on sale that we liked. They did have the same seat in another color still available for 200 SEK (~$25 USD) more so we tried that one in black (a Brio) and a white one (an Aero) which was the same price. I didn't like the white one which was just like the fancy office chairs which I do like. Odd. I didn't really like the way it looked and I thought white was a poor choice of colors. It's a good thing Davin agreed about the Brio and it did fit him better too. I did happen to like the green/black version that was on sale but I am still pretty happy with the price overall and it seems like a nice seat that will grow with him. It certainly is cheaper than the other one I wanted to get in the States! I hope it works out...

Anyway, we headed back to Farmor's and we could definitely feel the brisk, cold air that was getting much colder even after an hour or so later. It is only a few blocks from Farmor's house to the center of town but Davin didn't like it too much. Neither did I but I am more willing to bundle up than he is. So, soon after we returned, Davin fell asleep in my lap. I wish we could have gotten Davin to eat something but I will take the sleeping too. Linnea didn't end up sleeping while we were out so she also went down for her nap too. Then it was Ebbe's turn and this was all within about an hour to 30 minutes of when we needed to head out for dinner. Jan went ahead and changed the reservation to 5pm instead so the kids could sleep a bit longer. That worked out really well since most of the kids were starting to wake up on their own by the time we needed to go again.

I don't remember the name of the place we went to but it was nice because we mostly had the place to ourselves and it wasn't far to drive to either. The food was good and I had the pork tenderloin with Bearnaise sauce cooked on a wooden plank and Fredrik had basically the same thing but with beef. Davin ate some corn and juice. Oh and some more Bilar (car shaped foam candy) that we picked up at the grocery store. Healthy meal.

We headed home after the dinner and Davin played game for a bit on my computer, then helped me wrap some presents (he mostly watched) and then he went to bed. I am glad we don't have to get up or stay up late to put things under the tree and all of Santa's gifts were hidden safely inside Farmor's earlier today. Tomorrow we celebrate Christmas!!