Some days there isn’t much that happen, and other days everything happens. But none of these days can man claim as a right, time isn’t anything we can either make or possess, it is something that has been given to us. As of that it is also something that can be taken away, how much time we have isn’t for us to know, therefore use it well!

For many the Easter has become a holiday to spend with friends, to eat good food and just have fun. Nothing wrong with that, after all it is a celebration of Christ opening the way to heaven for everyone! :D
But Easter is also a remembrance of how He opened that way, what sacrifice He had to make on that cross for that we have sinned, how inconceivably deep love He had and still has for us that he gave us this second chance!
So let’s not make Easter only a holiday spent with friends, with food and just having fun, but also remember Him who has put us here and wants an eternity with us!

Happy Eastern! Christ has risen!!

Saturday I didn’t get out of bed to early, after all I’m a guy so I don’t need very much time to get ready… (I really shouldn’t generalize, especially not about this, but it can be quite fun ;) ) We were heading for Tuvattnet, a 140km or 87 miles trip up north, to celebrate Easter and Ingemar’s birthday (again). Two cars stuffed with five people in each, cruising slightly above the speed limit reached the goal at about 11.30am after a journey where the most exciting part was getting pulled over by the police… Since the photo on my driver’s license looks remotely like me and I don’t like to have alcohol in my system there was no problem getting out of their attention. In Tuvattnet we were greeted with barkings from the dog and more ordinary hugs and ”hi”s and ”hello”s from the Eriksson and Wissman family, and later on this delicious lunch (with dessert!) As eating with good friends and family is supposed to, the lunch took its time. To let the food find an optimal degree of compaction we then took a short walk through the village. Sometimes one can get a little jealous of the view some people have from their houses…

A house with some background

Not that I can complain about the view from back home either, but we don’t have these mountaintops.
After the walk Rasmus had some amazing little pyrotechnics to show and blow before we went inside again. :)
Now was the time for presents and here is what he got from us: A changeable basket, a fancy Ph.D. jacket, a party game and a 654 pieces puzzle with no picture on it .=) Hopefully they’ll be of either great use or great joy or perhaps both.

For those of you that are not aware of the Swedish fika tradition I encourage you to come here and explore it yourselves!

At the end of the visit we had a great kakfika, the difference from an ordinary fika is that the kakfika consists of only cookies and cakes… Then, at about 7pm we had to leave and at 9.20pm I once again drove the car into the garage back home.
(If you get the idea that we only ate or walked during the visit I can tell you that we also had lots of great interaction between the meals too ;) )

Today (or yesterday since time has passed midnight with margin) mum I and Nils went skiing on the lake with the dog before Lars and Anna arrived with their respective families. We then went barbecuing with the Ragnarsson family by the wind shield at ”Rännhälla”.As the weather has been wonderful this entire day that wasn’t very unpleasant…
Back home things weren’t happening too fast, fresh air really makes you enjoy calmness and rest. Of course Ellen kept the speed up after a little re-energizing power nap, she really has this super power to be everywhere and smile to anyone =) The dinner was traditional Swedish tortillas… Well, at least the Mexicans wouldn’t recognize much of it :P But it was good!! Then we had cake and did some searching through the old fashioned analogue photo’s archive before some younger elements ran out of energy and had to leave for comfy sleeping-places.

The holiday has been great and I really should go to bed now.

Take care everyone!

Mae råkes

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