Morning Rambling

My life has a purpose: to get a car. That means that I should be scanning ads for something that we want to go look at but the choices and possibilities are too unlimited and so it is easier to sit in the viewing room upstairs looking at the harbor talking to you.

Second floor sitting room

Nivå Harbour

A day starts in our house just like a day at your house; with lots of yelling at kids to get mobilized! The routine starts as alarm, pee, coffee, yell, coffee, news, yell, yell, porridge, yell, yell, yell, jackets on!, wait lunch isn't made, promises to go to bed earlier, to shower more, to brush teeth without being told, to sit straight, yell, yell, too late to walk to school, get in car, minutes to go, none to spare. So much for the idyllic bike ride laughing and waving at other cyclists on the way. It's more like Mr Magoo hunched behind the wheel of the car yelling "Out of the way, moron!" to a grandma on her bike heading out for a bit of groceries.

Steen is at his third day of school and Maja and Tom are just starting today. Mette is with the younger kids in school this morning so I have a few hours of freedom (except for the car thing I mentioned earlier).

I jogged home from Steen's school along the Gammlestrandvej (Old Beach Road) with thatched roof houses on one side and the Sound separating the barbarian, warlike Swedes from the peaceful Danes on the other side. The sun is finally shining today so the water is sparkling and calm. 

After the jog comes a complete workout, shower, massage, paint a picture, build a miniature boat with some string and dowel, then learn Danish and send some  money to Africa. The little flags are flapping on the sailboats so maybe I'll watch that for a while before I get to those other things.

I'll show you a few pics of our house and garden in Nivå:

Front yard of our house 

Back of house

Back yard