Newsletter 2013
The most important occurrence this year is that the kitchen is finally done. It only took two and a half years from start to finish. The last piece that was put in place was the new kitchen lamp. It is a fantastic lamp, well worth waiting for, but please note that it is not the one in the picture. We are overwhelmingly pleased with our new kitchen, and by now the design is well tested. It is possible to set up table for 25 people, or 5-6 people can comfortably build lego/Warhammer/do handicraft, or up to ten people can bake ginger bread men simultaneously. We have been traveling a lot. The family has visited Hamburg (Germany), the US, the summerhouse of Carl’s parents and Gothenburg. While visiting Germany we also visited Schwerin and Weimar.They are fantastic old Hansa-cities, well worth visiting. The children probably appreciated the pool facilities of the hotel more than the history and the culture, but that is OK. In the US we visited relatives of Carl and visited fantastic nature. We also made visited friends in Canada, although we learned that the summer house of our friends was actually situated in the US and not in Canada. In Gothenburg we visited one of largest cinemas ever. We watched the highly cultural and deeply moving move Thor 2. In Gothenburg we also lerned to appreciate a smart phone with built in GPS… Carl is still building cameras at Axis. He is now Mr Know-it-all at work, Engineer 007 with the right to put his nose into everything. He has been to both Hannover and Phoenix. At the Phoenix resort he realized that some days at work are better than others. This is vividly illustrated by the photo below.
Kersti is still at PHI and she is traveling a lot right now. Some trips are very short, like Copenhagen or Stockholm just for the day, while others are more extended, like Boston for a week. It is very interesting to visit labs in all countries, and a luxury to meet all the enthusiastic researchers. It is also great fun to see all the computers at the Sanger institute that were used for mapping the human genome. At the day of folk music in Lund Kersti tried an alternative career as a vicar’s wife for on day.
Axel plays the guitar and badminton. He enjoys going to school and he grows like weed. This year he is still shorter that Kersti, 1 cm to go, but he managed to grow larger feet than Carl. Axel has become such a proper, organized person. He now puts lot of energy into making the rest of us do things in the proper way and on time. His latest interest is little figures called Warhammer that need building and painting. They are used for playing war games. At the Moronic Society in Lund he can meet children of all ages to play. Most of the children are men aged 25-60.
Johan has learned to throw people around so well that he now has the black belt with two strips in jujutsu. He thinks that school is a waste of time, but craft, music and physical education are OK. Johan plays the horn, and this year he has participated in three concerts. The grown-ups of course applaud this. Johan is also crazy about Warhammer and goes to the Moronic Society. Minecraft is still the most popular computer game, both for Axel and for Johan. As Johan had some stomach problems we have tried eating with and without lactose, milk and gluten. Without gluten worked fine and now Johan is happily eating more than ever. He does mourn things like cinnamon rolls and traditional Christmas pastries.
Both children love to play war. Indoors they have guns armed with foam darts and outdoors they have water guns. They have spent a lot of time and effort to find the right kinds of guns and how to use them. Grown-ups tend to hide when 5-6 boys run around the house, shooting and yelling. They build mattress forts and pillow walls for protection. When there is a water fight Carl sometimes joins the fight. In order for him not to be out numbered, we gave him a water machine gun. It is connected directly to the garden hose and enables him to easily surround five kids and win the fight (at least that is what he tells me to write in the newsletter…).
Cacke och Kersti Last update: March 9, 2014 |
