I remember thinking the day would never arrive when we would be leaving New Zealand. I would have relaxed and enjoyed my time more there had I known everything in Stockholm was okay and my apartment was free for us to move back into, but since we didn't know that for sure then it was stressful at the end.
Here we are back in Sweden 8 months and I don't regret our decision one bit. Yes there are a lot of things we miss, Mike, Stephen, cake day, Katie Perry, St. Anne's (I loved my job, colleagues and boss!), a lovely family with Marianne in my class (we still keep in contact though) and John really really misses studying there. We are however, very spoiled in Sweden with the excellent maternity leave, which is allowing me to be home with my little boy until January, stable job, warm apartment (which New Zealand just couldn't beat), internet (though I can't complain about our internet at all in New Zealand). I go back to work in January and John will stay home with our little boy until August 2014, at which point he will go to daycare.
John is back studying at Stockholm University and isn't enjoying it, partly due to language as he loves studying in English and partly due to his time off he's getting in January that he's soooo looking forward to.
During our days I take N out to Öppet Förskola as they call it here, where you meet other parents and they have a singing session. We go to the library as they also have song get togethers and book talks, though we haven't been for a book talk yet. We definitely are not stuck for a lack of things to do, quite the opposite actually, where I tend to do too much. So far N has gotten two teeth, no hair, rolling (så där - he can do it, but chooses not to). He is such a happy little boy and we can't be any luckier.
I suppose since this blog was meant for New Zealand I actually haven't kept up with it, but I realised I probably could keep it going and update it with the baby instead. I'm just not so sure I want pictures quite yet as I'm putting tons on facebook, which I am a very active member of.
