mothers day

Today it's mothers day here. The rest of the world had mothers day a couple of weeks ago, today it's all the Swedish mothers turn to be celebrated. We made our mother a good brunch with eggs, bacon, pancakes and smoothies! She is not a big fan of mothers day, since she thinks we should celebrate her everyday ;-) It's always fun to make her dinner, after all she has made us several dinner over the years!

So last week was my birthday and on Valentines day we had the family over for a Thai- inspired dinner. We made spring rolls, dim sim, satay with peanut sauce! And for dessert, I whipped up some banana pancakes! Me like! Here are some pictures from that night!

This is the last picture from the night, and as you can see we had fun...

here's the dim sim's before they were stem cooked

Mr J making a little bundle of joy! (Yes, they were good)

Setting the table...we have a small kitchen and want a new one....

This was Picasso before the guest arrived. He was bored and was thinking he had the meanest cat parents in the whole wide world. Just cooking and cleaning instead of playing with him...

And here's one of my presents, candle sticks. The biggest present was from the whole family and it was a nice totally new bike! I have not had a new bike since I was seven, I think!

It was a good night!

two generations of rings sitting on my finger

so, my sweet little grandmother died two weeks ago. The funeral was beautiful and now we have the sorting of her stuff left to do. Among all the things we found were these rings. They are, from bottom up, my grandfathers ring, my grandmothers two rings and on top, a remake of my grandmothers parents wedding rings. So this is, two generations of rings from my fathers side of the family! I love looking down on my finger and seeing these little memoires of my grandparents. A lovely way to incorporate them into my daily life.
My grandmother took her parents ring and made them into one and that is what I'm going to do with hers. I'm going to melt them all three into one, with a little heart on. But first I had to take a picture!

Thank you, all! I've read all your comments and they made me smile! Love being back here again!