The past weeks have been eventful. First we had the in-laws over before they drove to the cabin, and we went up there for the weekend. The weather was super nice, but the mosquitoes were on a mission to get me.

Emeline had watermelon for the first time

Oh, about that picture. We were eating at this place and suddenly a girl came up to us asking if she could film us while we ate. It was for a video on their Facebook page, and somebody said yes. It wasn’t me, that’s for sure. I just watched Emeline having that watermelon for a whole three minutes while she was filming, just so I didn’t have to look at the camera. At least Emeline was adorable in that clip

Then, back in Oslo, we had my parents over for a week. I’d been feeling very PMSy, so that was bad timing… I felt so bad for being so grumpy when they all came to visit us

Last Saturday we had a little get-together with everybody; my parents and the in-laws. In Norway we call it a name celebration, it’s a non-religious way to celebrate the birth of a child when you don’t baptize it. We had tapas and cakes, and it was soo good Poor Emeline couldn’t have anything we had, but she seemed satisfied with the usual cereal.

It was so hot inside that I didn’t know what to dress her in. The fancy dress I’d had in mind would’ve be cruel to put on her, but this one was pretty cute

They all left on Sunday, which was sad, but the moment they went out the door, Hanne-Lill and her baby girl, Vilde came to visit us We went for a stroll, but it started pouring down, so we ran to the nearest café since none of us had appropriate clothes to walk around in the rain on. In the evening, after the girls had gone to sleep, we ordered thai food and watched the World Cup finals and just talked about everything and nothing. Ah, how I wish I lived closer to my best friends

The next day they were off again, and I hurried downtown to meet Sunniva, my old classmate, who has a one-year-old, whom I’ve never met. We went to a pizza place where we met up with Karina, also an old classmate. It was so nice to meet them both again, I miss hanging with those girls! And little Sofie was so adorable! I forgot to bring my camera. Boo me.

On Tuesday we went back to the cabin, and it was really nice to just relax with a book, alone with our tiny family

And now we’re finally back in Oslo again Ah, I love summer.

Since we were in Trysil we went to this little Chinese restaurant called China Restaurant. For the first time in my life I’ve been at a restaurant where we were the only guests. It was a strange experience, but after an hour or so we realized that we were on Oslo time and the citizens of Trysil are going out a little bit later than us Anyway, I had this veggie wok that wasn’t too hot, so I decided to add a little hotness to it. On the table was a little jar of chili sauce with the label “Very hot chili”. I thought that since chili itself is hot, and the label not saying “Chili” or “Hot chili”, but “Very hot chili”, this must be VERY hot chili. So I had only a few drops on my plate. Yum! But on my next portion I wrongly calculated the food:very hot chili ratio and thought, for the first time in my life, that food could make me cry. After binging down on rice I managed to breathe again, but I’d do it again — it was that good. I wish I knew how to make that at home.

Five days in Trysil was good for my health after a horrible couple of days at work. We just hang out eating lots of junk, celebrating Christian’s birthday, having the first barbecue of the year, taking a road trip to Sweden to buy more junk, and talking more about the wedding (which we have decided on now, but that’s a whole other post).

Now I’m gonna spend three days in Harstad, probably eating more junk