Welcome to our blogg.

We thought this would be a nice way to keep our friends and family updated about what we are up to! And for us to have some kind of diary, to save for the future when we move back home to Sweden. We choose to write in English so all our friend could read it=) (and it's also good practice for me)

About us

Dubai
We are a family of four, and one dog and six guinea pigs (and one cat that lives in Blentarp, Sweden) We moved to Dubai a year ago, Henrik is working here and Ingela is a housewife and both children are in school. Victoria is 7 years old and Cornelia is 5 years old. They are in grade 1 and 2. When they started school here, Victoria just started school in Sweden and didn't speak any English and Cornelia where still in kindergarten in Sweden and didn't speak any English either. Now a year later they speak English and writes and read English as well. They also learn Arabic in school. After some difficulties it seams like they enjoy school and our life here, and that feels very good. If they like it here it's easier for us to also relax and enjoy our stay here in Dubai. And now we have one more member of our family, a streetcat named Stripy, Findus, Nisse, Tiger and Findus=), and also one more guinea pig has died, so 5 guinea pigs left.

måndag 29 mars 2010

Monday

Today Victoria still is sick, but I dropped of Cornelia at school. And then I went to body pump class and that was hard=). When i came home me and Henrik took Enja for a walk around the lake.
And today at the body pump I spoke to a frien who also has a dog and now i finally got a group of people with dogs who is walking together once a week. And also a trainer who trains groups, so now I hope that she has a place left for me and Enja=). would be great to do some exercises and also meet some dogs, both me and Enaj needs to pratice on that. I think the walks are on Sunday mornings and trainings on either Saturdays och Tuesdays.
When I picked up Cornelia, we went to MOE (Mall of the Emirates) and had lunch and bought two sun chairs. Hope to be able to bring Henrik down to the beach soon!
Victoria has written a book today, containing 13 pages, all in English and with drawings too. If I'm aloud I will scan a page, but she said it was a secret.
Henrik is bored bored bored, but he's in a very good mode (if you ask him=)). Today his plan was to buy a wii, but nothing happened. Me and Cornelia bought "This is it" about Micheal Jacsson's last concert, and we watched it to night, Henrik was in charge of the dinner so he called 800-pizza!!! Tried to get a picture here, but no, that will just don't happen tonight?

söndag 28 mars 2010

Sunday

On Friday a friend of ours had a little girl, who they named Kari (so I know no that I didn't win the competition=)) and everything went well as far as I know.
Today Victoria is home sick (cough) and it's always a bit tricky to leave Cornelia when she knows Victoria is home.
I have been running 6km and it was very warm (28 degrees Cecilius). Henrik has already done his first bench press session, and I'm supposed to help him with the bar, but the problem is that he has 40 kg on it and I can hardly lift it (good exercise for me to).
Today I will prepare Cornelia's room so that Family Nimlin can sleep in there. We are so looking forward to have them here=).
Now Henrik, me and Enja has done a lap around the lake (it's 1,2 km ).
This afternoon Cornelia is having swimming lessons at 4pm I think???
Otherwise the only thing on the agenda today is to try to get someone to fix our dishwasher, life is so much easier when you have one that works (at least for Leela).

fredag 26 mars 2010

Doing nothing


Today we have only been home. Henrik still can't sit up for to long and Victoria has fever and a cough. Cornelia has been with some friends to "Lakes club", that's a pool and fitness center and restaurant. Very nice place and now when it's getting hotter we will be there quite often.
Cornelia is now outside playing with her friends, most of them are playing football. Outside our garden there are more or less always children playing, so that's why we decided to stay here in The Springs another year. Victoria and Cornelia has many friends here and it's very convenient for their mother too=).
Henrik and Victoria are watching Star Wars, I don't know witch episode, but I think they have been watching at least 2 or 3 movies today!!
To night we are having tacos for dinner, so I'm of to do some easy cooking=)
(And because we have done nothing today I just took some old pics=))

Okey

I think this thing with blog already has tired me out=). I can't seem to get our blog to be visible for everyone??

torsdag 25 mars 2010

Getting started.


So this is our first try to do our blogg. It's not much to start with but hope it will be later on!!
At the moment we are taking care of Henrik, who has broken his right femur and left pelvis.
Me and Henrik were at SkiDubai on Monday the 8th and Henrik did a jump and fell badly, and we left the ski slope with ambulance. You know you should read throw all this insurance papers and also check up hospitals and so on, but time flies and when the ambulance personnel asked where we wanted to go, we where not prepared. But we have heard about The American Hospital (only deliveries though) so we told them to go there. It costed us 300 dhs (600 skr) and the other hospital they talked about was for free. But The American Hospital seems like a good choice. Henrik went trough surgery on Tuesday afternoon. He now has a 40 cm long nail in his right femur and the pelvis is supposed to heal by it self. He came home the 16th and the day before here was a physiotherapist at our home just to see how it would work having a wheelchair here.
Everything went well and now his home and everything is great.
Today he bought a new press bench, just to keep his upper body fit!