The goals were (almost) accomplished.
After a very tough morning trying to wake up, I made the usual breakast (eggs, bacon and my beloved tomotoes with lemon-pepper). Paul came here yesterday and Jacob was on his way. We met up at the galleria and stood in line at the picture-taking place and the guy took my kids behind a wall and took their picture. I waited outside and tried to figure out how a picture taken of me at a private party at my home ended up in a gossip magazine and then the kids came back with their pictures. You wouldn't believe it if I told you, but even my beautiful children who always take a good picture, came back with photos and I swear to God they looked like little terrorists, Jacob had, like, one eye half way open and Bart Simpson hair and poor, sweet Paul looked like he just got 5-10 in the state penn for armed robbery or something! I had no idea these gorgeous kids could look like hardened criminals! The worse they have ever done is lose a mobile phone or buy candy instead of coming home on time. I tried to take a photo with my phone so you could see, but the camera on my phone was too crappy and they never came out, but trust me....those gorgeous boys looked crazy! So now I have to take "Osama Bin Barnen" down to the embassy tomorrow and try to get a new passport for them, so we can spend Christmas in Egypt as planned. Then, another day of lines at the visa office so we can renew their residence visas. A whole lotta friggen lines!
I went to the solarium and hung out for 20 minutes. Lillen usually likes to go at the same time, but the last time he went, he got so red that I gave him Solarium-förbjud, so this time he just sat on the floor and talked shit with me while I laid there. When I got out, I checked myself in the mirror and then gave myself Solarium-förbjud!!! He looks like a lobster. I look like an african. It's time to stop the madness!
My girlfriend called and was nearby, so I picked her up and she was just what I needed! We talked clothes and salad and the ph level in our vaginas and everything you usually discuss with your girlfriends. Was just what the Dr. ordered. I had paid bills and discussed our economy with Lillen earlier and that crap is a buzz-killer if anything and along with the friggin picture in the magazine and my terrorist-kids, I was on my way to a bad mood and she just soothed me like a good jazz record. Sometimes a girl just needs some girl-time! Am I right ladies??? Hallah!!
Lillen left for his gig and I dropped my girl off at the train. The kids and I played Scrabble (or Alfapet) until they got so tired that they took themselves to bed, but before that we had a family meeting...
Before "we" took this job on DBK, we discussed the pros and cons. The kids being kids could not understand the concept of "bad press" and I knew it went over their heads. Right now they are on their fall break, but I wanted to prepare them and have an open dialogue because they could go back to school and maybe no one would mention a thing... Or they could go back to school and potentially get teased. I don't believe so, but personally, I like to be too prepared than not prepared at all, so I wanted tell them how it went on the show and how much fun I had. Then I diplomatically asked them if they thought I was any different from other swedish moms. OH YEAH!! They said this almost in unison. "How?"I asked and the dialogue just flowed..
"Well first of all, you wear a hot pink jogging suit at the mall! Nobody else's mom would do that!" Ok, I say(and smile). What else? "You are adventurous! If we go to Gröna Lund, you ride the roller coasters with us. Swedish moms would just watch on the sidelines." I laugh at loud. "Oh really??" I say? "No WAY!" (Kids are so funny!) " You always try new things and are curious!" (Kids never say what you think they will say and I am eternally charmed by their insight.) "I try to answer them..."Sometimes, adults make choices in life. the best choices they know how to make with the knowledge they have acquired up to that point in life and sometimes, those choices can affect the innocent people around them, whether they meant to or not. I chose to try to work with what makes me happy. Music and art. And somehow, God has provided opportunities for me to do that AND be a mom at the same time. If I leave you with anything, I want you find out what makes you happy and try to make a living at it. Then you will never be bored and always have peace in your heart. But know that there are times in your life that you will have to take crap jobs, just to survive and you need that charactor, but always have a vision!! I have made choices that have affected you. We have moved here. Your father and I have divorced. I have worked as a singer and now I am on tv. You have not made those choices, but you have paid a price anyway and that really sucks! I know how it is to have grown ups making choices FOR you without asking you what you think or having any power over the situation. I know that feeling and it SUCKS!! It is and seems unfair, but the bottom line is that I am doing my best to balance it all and no matter what, YOU GUYS come first! I travel alot, but I am home more than others. I have made choices to have public jobs, but I promise to do everything in my power to protect you, so you have to promise me that if anyone says something mean to you or if you have a problem because of my choice to have a public job, that you tell me directly! I love you and our family is first."
It was a great family meeting. Then we brought out the maps of North Africa and started discussing what we would see when we were in Egypt. My children love to travel. They would give up every toy they had to visit a new culture. For 2 years, the only thing they have asked for for Christmas or their birthday was to see the pyramids and the mummies, so Lillen and I discussed it and have saved for a long time and now we are spending Christmas there as a family. The kids have forgone 2 years of presents for just this trip and I am so proud that they want experiences and not "things" (if you know what I mean). So tonight we looked at maps and pics of the hotel and I have described the food and promised one night of "room service food", just because they have heard about it and wonder what "room service" is all about.
Somehow during Scrabble (Alfapet), the kids asked how my friend could be so young and be a grandmother. I told them her age (40-something) and they were astonished that someone could be a grandmother so young and astonished that she could be 40-something in the first place. Then they started speaking swedish to each other and I heard Jacob say to Paul that you could be könsmogen at 15 or 16 and I had a mild heart attack hearing my 10 (almost 11) year old say "könsmogen" in the first place. I tried to keep my cool and be scientific with the whole thing and tell them that boys are "könsmogen" a little later than girls and that girls can be "könsmogen" as early as 9 or 10 and that I was 12 when it happened. I had heart palpitations, but I seemed cool...I think.
Then as we are playing the game, Jacob asks, "Mom, how do you spell Queer?" (It was American english Scrabble...seemed educational, right??) Uh...Q.U.E.E.R..., do you know what that means? "No, but heard on a show on TV..'I'm here and I'm Queer'." (I laughed like hell! ) Well, darling, is it really good to use words so freely when you don't even know what they mean? "Uh...I don't know" he says. I smile and tell him that maybe 50 years ago, the word meant unusual, odd, unique, egen...now there is a new definition,especially in that context..It means that you are gay and that people just need to deal with it! His eyes got big and he said, "OOOOOOH!...okej...uh....I don't have enough 'E's' for that!"
I swear...I love my children!!!!
I went to the solarium and hung out for 20 minutes. Lillen usually likes to go at the same time, but the last time he went, he got so red that I gave him Solarium-förbjud, so this time he just sat on the floor and talked shit with me while I laid there. When I got out, I checked myself in the mirror and then gave myself Solarium-förbjud!!! He looks like a lobster. I look like an african. It's time to stop the madness!
My girlfriend called and was nearby, so I picked her up and she was just what I needed! We talked clothes and salad and the ph level in our vaginas and everything you usually discuss with your girlfriends. Was just what the Dr. ordered. I had paid bills and discussed our economy with Lillen earlier and that crap is a buzz-killer if anything and along with the friggin picture in the magazine and my terrorist-kids, I was on my way to a bad mood and she just soothed me like a good jazz record. Sometimes a girl just needs some girl-time! Am I right ladies??? Hallah!!
Lillen left for his gig and I dropped my girl off at the train. The kids and I played Scrabble (or Alfapet) until they got so tired that they took themselves to bed, but before that we had a family meeting...
Before "we" took this job on DBK, we discussed the pros and cons. The kids being kids could not understand the concept of "bad press" and I knew it went over their heads. Right now they are on their fall break, but I wanted to prepare them and have an open dialogue because they could go back to school and maybe no one would mention a thing... Or they could go back to school and potentially get teased. I don't believe so, but personally, I like to be too prepared than not prepared at all, so I wanted tell them how it went on the show and how much fun I had. Then I diplomatically asked them if they thought I was any different from other swedish moms. OH YEAH!! They said this almost in unison. "How?"I asked and the dialogue just flowed..
"Well first of all, you wear a hot pink jogging suit at the mall! Nobody else's mom would do that!" Ok, I say(and smile). What else? "You are adventurous! If we go to Gröna Lund, you ride the roller coasters with us. Swedish moms would just watch on the sidelines." I laugh at loud. "Oh really??" I say? "No WAY!" (Kids are so funny!) " You always try new things and are curious!" (Kids never say what you think they will say and I am eternally charmed by their insight.) "I try to answer them..."Sometimes, adults make choices in life. the best choices they know how to make with the knowledge they have acquired up to that point in life and sometimes, those choices can affect the innocent people around them, whether they meant to or not. I chose to try to work with what makes me happy. Music and art. And somehow, God has provided opportunities for me to do that AND be a mom at the same time. If I leave you with anything, I want you find out what makes you happy and try to make a living at it. Then you will never be bored and always have peace in your heart. But know that there are times in your life that you will have to take crap jobs, just to survive and you need that charactor, but always have a vision!! I have made choices that have affected you. We have moved here. Your father and I have divorced. I have worked as a singer and now I am on tv. You have not made those choices, but you have paid a price anyway and that really sucks! I know how it is to have grown ups making choices FOR you without asking you what you think or having any power over the situation. I know that feeling and it SUCKS!! It is and seems unfair, but the bottom line is that I am doing my best to balance it all and no matter what, YOU GUYS come first! I travel alot, but I am home more than others. I have made choices to have public jobs, but I promise to do everything in my power to protect you, so you have to promise me that if anyone says something mean to you or if you have a problem because of my choice to have a public job, that you tell me directly! I love you and our family is first."
It was a great family meeting. Then we brought out the maps of North Africa and started discussing what we would see when we were in Egypt. My children love to travel. They would give up every toy they had to visit a new culture. For 2 years, the only thing they have asked for for Christmas or their birthday was to see the pyramids and the mummies, so Lillen and I discussed it and have saved for a long time and now we are spending Christmas there as a family. The kids have forgone 2 years of presents for just this trip and I am so proud that they want experiences and not "things" (if you know what I mean). So tonight we looked at maps and pics of the hotel and I have described the food and promised one night of "room service food", just because they have heard about it and wonder what "room service" is all about.
Somehow during Scrabble (Alfapet), the kids asked how my friend could be so young and be a grandmother. I told them her age (40-something) and they were astonished that someone could be a grandmother so young and astonished that she could be 40-something in the first place. Then they started speaking swedish to each other and I heard Jacob say to Paul that you could be könsmogen at 15 or 16 and I had a mild heart attack hearing my 10 (almost 11) year old say "könsmogen" in the first place. I tried to keep my cool and be scientific with the whole thing and tell them that boys are "könsmogen" a little later than girls and that girls can be "könsmogen" as early as 9 or 10 and that I was 12 when it happened. I had heart palpitations, but I seemed cool...I think.
Then as we are playing the game, Jacob asks, "Mom, how do you spell Queer?" (It was American english Scrabble...seemed educational, right??) Uh...Q.U.E.E.R..., do you know what that means? "No, but heard on a show on TV..'I'm here and I'm Queer'." (I laughed like hell! ) Well, darling, is it really good to use words so freely when you don't even know what they mean? "Uh...I don't know" he says. I smile and tell him that maybe 50 years ago, the word meant unusual, odd, unique, egen...now there is a new definition,especially in that context..It means that you are gay and that people just need to deal with it! His eyes got big and he said, "OOOOOOH!...okej...uh....I don't have enough 'E's' for that!"
I swear...I love my children!!!!
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