Thursday

Sunday

Not for the bed jumping type of person.

Saturday

I was brought up in the western Swedish archipelago. Next to us lived my grandparents and most of my aunt and uncles. My cousins and I spent our childhood running around in the woods and mountains and we did the swimming most people would need a lifetime for during the summer holidays. Here I am in the outer archipelago that we used to travel around in a sailing boat my father built.

Friday

My youngest kid falls asleep in the pram and sleeps some 2-3 hours outside the house every day. Might sound like a dream. Except this winter we've had all the snow you had in Europe last year concentrated to Iceland and more. And the winds have been literally turning the pram 180°on the street corners. A home picked sea bird duvet does the trick. I use it inside the sleeping bag. But my fingers go numb sitting by the open window with hail and snow flying around the room.

Thursday

My Swedish summer fluffy cloud sky.

Wednesday

Random picture from my favourite country. Old ruin below the mountain.

Tuesday

That you can make snowmen also in the summer. This picture is taken on the Myrdalsjökull glacier by the way located on top of the of the overdue Katla volcano media was telling you all about. (Big sister of the smaller Eyjafjallajökull volcano that disrupted the flights in Europe.) We used to drive over it every summer with the kids.

Monday

Sorry I missed the challenge yesterday. I was working a 12 hour shift. This outfit was actually mine a couple of years back.

Saturday

Family & Mountains

Friday

Porridge with banana or muesli. In Iceland most babies from the age of 6 months and on drink cow milk designed for babies with added iron and vitamins. From the same age they usually get skyr that is is an Icelandic cultured dairy product similar to strained yoghurt. That is very different from how babies get to try out foods in Sweden I feel, where milk products are almost being avoided.

Thursday

I found this photo challenge at April April and decided to have it a go. You can also join in here just add you to the link list. Here I am with my 8 month old at at lake Langisjór last summer. For years, plans existed to dam this amazing lake for energy production but then politicians made the good decision making this lake part of a National Park. We were on a camping tip with the family with big Icelandic monster jeeps behind the Vatnajökull glacier. People usually think were nuts when we tell them we go camping in the mountains with small children but it's actually the best way of traveling in my opinion. You can stop anywhere you like when you're on these off the map mountain roads where there is no traffic to take into consideration. And the kids sleep better on bumpy roads than on highways. When my older son was about 8 months we took it to the extreme and got dropped off by a boat in the inhabited remote north part of the west fjords only to be picked up again after the weekend (and a 5 hour hike) on his very fist camping trip.