So proud

Jón Birgir was in Reykjavík this weekend attending the national championships in judo. He called me on Saturday afternoon and asked me to guess which place he had ended in. I quickly though "how optimistic should I be" and then said "you aren't national champion are you?" and he said "actually yes". My little nephew, not 12 years old yet, is national champion already!

We pulled down the sink and the unit yesterday. I have to admit that I quite liked doing that :) I'm better in destructing than constructing I think ;) We are expecting our tiler any moment now to start the tiling work. I can't wait. Now I just want to have it finished. He's going to be working for us for three days he said. Then I can have the hole for the drain made and the shower fitted, hopefully next week. Then the unit installed, hope we can do that ourselves. Then the toilet box and then replace the bathtub and then the rest of the tiles done. Hopefully it will all be done in about a month. When that is finished we are going to move the girls into the hobby room and the hobby room into Sólveig Lilja's room. I bet they are going to like sharing a room, those little buggers :)

We went to Sólveig Lilja's dance show in school on Wednesday. It was quite cool, she seemed to enjoy her a lot and it was fun to watch them. We all went there and taped most of the show. Which reminds me we were going to send a tape off to Mum today. Well, it's going to have to be done tomorrow, I haven't copied anything to tape yet. She's going to love seeing this I think :)

Not a good week

This was not a good week, weight-wise :( Put on a kilo. I knew it hadn't been a good week but this was a bit too much. Bob is not very happy and doesn't listen to any excuses. Which is good in a way :)

Our tiler is coming over tonight to pick up his money. And give us an estimation on how much it would cost to do the rest of the tiling. The plumber - who I thought was avoiding us or dead even - came over on Sunday night, bouncing of life as every time I've seen him before - and told us how he would do things. So we are doing things his way, after all he is the professional. We are both getting sick of this mess and want it over and done with and we both agree on that we want to have it done properly.

Sólveig Lilja is having her last dance lesson in school this morning and we are all going there to see her. She so loves dancing and it will be fun to see her.

I made some progress with school work last night. Bob kept me company and help me which was very nice.

Those kids

Sometimes they drive you crazy. They don't do as they're told, they answer back and do all sorts of things they are not supposed to do. You are exhausted at the end of the day. But then they do something or say something that just melt your heart. A while ago Sólveig Lilja said "þú ert best" (you are the best) after I'd been telling her off one morning when we were getting ready for school. And last night I was telling them that I love them (ég elska þig in Icelandic) and Sólveig Lilja said it back as she usually does and Kristín Lára first reached to me for a kiss and then she said "ég elska þig" pretty clearly. Tired or not, this was pretty amazing. They make it all worth while. They have a way of melting you and make you want to just take them and give them a huge hug.

They sure are worth it.

One hundred grams!

That's all. One hundred grams. But they went, didn't come so that's a plus. Now I have to add 5 grams of oil every day, hopefully that helps.

Sólveig Lilja and I walked to school this morning. She seemed to like it and so did I. The weather was good, the sky was very pretty, the clouds very colourful and the sunlight was just starting to show on the mountain tops. Very pretty.

Comfy?

Normally it's Kristín Lára who looks funny and cute when we go check on them before we go to sleep. But last night it was Sólveig Lilja. She looks so relaxed and comfy.