precious gifts 07/21/2011
 Irma. This is one of of my favorite photos so far. Kids. . They are the best thing that ever happens to us! They change our lives! Lately, there has been a lot of "life changing" going on in our around here. Terrible two´s ! I have said it before, and I don´t mean to whine, but yes..Terrible! And it goes around. We have three kids now close in age, all starting to act..yes, hmm..terrible. Haha..sometimes, all us moms can do is just to compare and laugh a little, shake our heads, and carry on..(with coffee ). I´m glad, very glad, to have other moms to talk to. People that knows what I´m talking about. ( and sees it too). But in at the end of the day, you know it is totally worth it! To watch them grow. To see them learn something new every day, discovering new things about themselves, And teaching us new hings about ourselves! I thank God for our children. Our precious gifts! 3 Comments play 06/01/2011
 Me and my boy! It is summer! Soon enough fall will be here again and I´ll be going back towards a job again after a very loong time. (due to illness. that is all I want to say about it. no pity. just wanted to explain why i´m not working). I have no idea what i´ll be ending up doing. But the purpose is to get back out into things again. I have no education except for my high school diploma ( there, i said it ), but honestly..I would love to just be able to work. somewhere! To be like ordinary people. So, there´s that about fall. About summer then. I´m planning on playing! taking advantage of every second with my son and my husband! Playing as much as I can! I want to priorities my family and God above all! I truly hope that I will be doing just that! And that I´ll look back on summer with joy! I also have a need to take my photography to a new level. I am thinking about an online workshop. Does anyone have any experience of those? Please do tell me. I´m hoping all of you will have a great summer too! happy 1.st of June! mamma 05/30/2011
 Yesterday was mothersday here in Sweden. I have had computer issues, and so I post this a day late. This is my mother. My beloved mother! It is hard to pick the words to best describe her. It would be a very long post. All I´ll say is ;" Mamma! THANK you, from the bottom of my heart, for being just exactly the way you are throughout the years! for doing your very best being a mother of three very complicated girls! ;) Honestly, although things where hard at times, I would not want to change a thing from my childhood! And You and dad are the reason for that! Thank you mom, for praising God in the kitchen. For praying intensly during hard times. For teaching me about Jesus since the very very beginning of my life. I even remember us having a deep conversation about prayers when i was around 5 years old. And another thing I remember is you playing records of Keith Green alot! oddly enough, these songs has since childhood kept coming back to me. I have listened to these songs numerous times and found strenght in them. Especially throughout my teens. There is one song I especially remember you playing. I listened to it again last night, and wanted to play it for you here. Mamma. jag älskar dig! worlds apart 05/24/2011
 I had some pictures ready to post from last week. But I didn´t. I was too tired after Micah and myself having a nasty cold for a almost a week now. So i went to bed. But this song here kept "bugging" me. And I just had to get up and share. A friend of mine intruduced it to me a very long time ago, and now it´s back in my head! It pretty much sums it up... My prayer this evening. Please listen and read these lyrics. They might just mean something to you too! What if ? 03/12/2011
 I have been thinking about this blogpost for a while. Weather to share this or not. Because this is serious to me. It is something I battle with and ask myself. - The "If" And then yesterday on the news hearing about Japan, I even more thought about it... "If" And that "If" has not as much to do with " what if something happened to me that I couldn´t handle?", as "What would I do if something happened to me that I couldn´t handle?". What would I do. What would I say to God..? What do I do? What do I say to God, in the daily struggles of life...? These lyrics from the song "I´m still yours" by Kutless, pretty much says it all. (click on the title of the song to listen to it via youtube) I´m Still Yours If You washed away my vanity If You took away my words If all my world was swept away Would You be enough for me? Would my beating heart still sing? If I lost it all Would my hands stay lifted To the God who gives and takes away If You take it all This life You've given Still my heart will sing to You When my life is not what I expected The plans I made have failed When there's nothing left to steal me away Will You be enough for me? Will my broken heart still sing? Even if You take it all away You’ll never let me go Take it all away But I still know That I'm Yours I'm still Yours A Blessing 09/26/2010
 Today at church it was Child Blessing for Lova! My cousins daughter. It was beautiful to once again see our whole congregation standing up to pray for her and welcome her in to Our family! It is a beautiful thing seeing our pastor lay hands on a small childs head and pray for her. Everytime, I am so happy that we have that privilege. To pray for our children, before they are born, when they are growing and then continue as they keep living their lives! God spoke to me today through the service. Of how important it is for your growing in faith to be a part of the great community we call church! I know this. But I got it spoken directly to me throgh our youth pastor (that is what she was preaching about). I have been away to much than I really have wanted to. I have let big things and small ones come in my way, making that excuse not to go sometimes. And it´s hard when you don´t feel very good. Although, that is the time you should go. Because that is where you´ll find your strength. Through your christian family. "Lord! I will try harder! Thank you for reminding me of my family in You. Thank you Lord also for The Cross!"  prayer 09/14/2010
 (while writing this post, I thought of this picture I took of one of my best friend a while back) I have been sick with a nasty throat infection. That´s why I didn´t post any pictures from the cruise yet. (it was wonderful btw), but you will have to check back later for those, because that is not what this post is about. I was getting ready for bed and got a request to pray for a very close friend. As I started getting deeper in to prayer and praise, I searched myself, I wanted to come before the Lord with a clean heart. I started to really realise and face the fact that I don´t involve God in my life as much as I want. I think I sometimes struggle against it! I want to do MY thing with the gifts and the blessings He has given me. It´s so much about ME! I kept being in prayer, and trying to give words to what i meant. And then this song gcame to me.... Make my life a prayer to you I wanna do what you want me to No empty words and no white lies No token prayers no compromise I wanna shine the light you gave Thru your son you sent to save us From ourselves and our despair It comforts me to know you're really there Well I wanna thank you know For being patient with me Oh it's so hard to see When my eyes are on me I guess I'll have to trust And just believe what you say Oh you're coming again Coming to take me away I wanna die and let you give Your life to me so I might live And share the hope you gave me The love that set me free I wanna tell the world out there You're not some fable or fairy tale That I've made up inside my head You're God the son and you've risen from the dead (Make My Life a Prayer To You, By Keith Green) The past week. And gratitude 08/08/2010
Ok. just an update on this past week. No pictures from it. Well, except this one I took this evening when Micah took his bath. I just thought it was funny how he always, Always has to bring cars wherever he goes. :)  carwash I have had a head ache for the past week. Like really bad and everyday. Yesterday was better though. Might be the weather, might be a cold still lingering, might be alot of things. Doesn´t really matter. Just feel sorry for me okay! ;) ( KIDDING) Josh has an earinfection on his one good ear and Micah is in his testy tantrum cranky moods lately. Not a fantastic week, but there are worse things to complain about! We actually have alot to be grateful for! Many blessing and surprises are coming our way. There are struggles everyday, for everyone, but God keeps filling our lives with so many blessings! small ones and big ones! (keep looking for coming posts and I might just reveal some) (and NO, I´m not pregnant hahaha) I have my yankee-candle (egyptian cotton) lit, some fresh coffee and it´s raining. Feels like fall is on the way already. I L O V E fall! , But I wish there where more summer still. I´ll end this post with some things I am truly happy for in my everyday life! Little, and Huge treasures that keeps me going : (in no specific order) - Friends! They understand me when I feel missunderstood, and if they don´t, they Love me anyways -Family. Near and far. I Love them all the same, and they encourage me throughout the day. In person, thorogh e-mail or skype! - A lit candle - Coffee - Taking Pictures (really, it truly is a passion) -Josh and Micah ( my very very own little family!!) -My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! with Him, Life has meaning! I could keep on listing things I am thankful for! When you really think about it, there is SO much more to life than those struggles we face everyday. At the park 06/20/2010
These are the pictures from this week. When we were at the park downtown (Örebro Sweden) by the river. Micah had so much fun chasing all those birds. Well, not chasing really, but walking after them. Altough that duck You seeon the pic got irritated and started running, so Micah got down and crawled instead, as to maybe look a little more like a duck himself ;) My favorite picture is the "Take Off" one. I think seagulls look kinda funny. They look just like they act in the movie "Finding Nemo". Going "Mine Mine. Mine Mine" .They make me laugh. (when they don´t poop on my head). So now I´m wrapping up this week and hope for a good next one. I pray Yours will be blessed in every way. Big and small. Lets focus on our Lord Jesus and thank him for all He has done. Think about him when you look at the creation! How marveleous it really really is! There is so much ugliness going on in the world! I Know, But lets focus on the things perfect! Try to really find the beauty in the simplest things! I´ll try and remember this for the week to come, in every day. There is Beauty. You just got to want to see it!  goofy boys  following the duck    Ready for Take off  on the bridge balcony fun 06/10/2010
I was thinking if a page or just a category would be the best for my weekly pictures..Since I´m still figuring things out in this here blog-world.. Any suggestions for me out there? Micah is in bed already. He got a bit played out since I got this brilliant idea to put his old baby bathtub on our balocny for him to play in. It was warm out there this afternoon, and I reeeally didn´t feel like going swinging this afternoon too! That is all he speaks of, and we usually do it everyday, but today he had been swinging alot at preeschool and I just didn´t want to go to the public playground today :( Which was good, because Micah had Tons of fun on the balcony! I was actually able to just sit there and take pictures for a long time.(will be added later) Now however I need to go clean up and drain the water before the seagulls out here thinks it´s a public pool. Today I happened across two different blog entries about people loosing a child. Today also, a very close friend of mine is attending the funeral of one of her oldest friends. This is all important to me becasue it reminds me YET AGAIN of how I keep taking things in life for granted. I tend to live a bit in the future. Always a bit in the future. Always ahead of things, worrying about the next moment and missing out on the present. Oh silly silly me. So today I held Micah a little tighter, laughed and played with him a little longer. And let him make a mess all he wanted to on the balcony. And now, i might have a messy balcony for sure, but I´d rather have that and those moments with me being actually present and laughing with my son, than a clean balcony and missing the moment. so now, I´m off to kiss my husband a little longer and not take that kiss for granted. Please do the same with your near ones today. Just stop for a minute and be present in the moment you have with them! You will never regret that you did! :) |  MeHi, I'm Dana. I'm a Swede, married to an American, and mother of one little boy. I have just entered my 3rd decade and I'm just beginning to find out who I am. It's an ongoing process, really. To help, I have my Lord Jesus by my side. I think He must have a lot of patience. Categories:All sponsoring :
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