10.17.09
What a sad week
What a sad week.
A week ago, one of my biggest idols ever, died. Stephen Patrick Gately, singer in boyband Boyzone. He died in his sleep from fluid in his lungs, while being on holiday on Majorca with his husband, Andy.
I woke up at 4.30 that morning and couldn’t believe my eyes – waking up to such awful news on the net. I thought it was a hoax, but went to see their official website, and boy..it was true. I was really shocked and this week has just been unreal, reading news about his death as they were updated with information.
Today he was buried from his home church in Dublin, Ireland. Thousands of fans were gathered outside the church. And how many, I wonder, including myself and my swedish friend Jessie, were listening in on rte’s radio transmission from the service..
it has truly been a sad week and a sad day. I just cannot believe that this beautiful young man, with bright shining eyes and wonderful smile and beautiful voice… is just gone … and never will be any older… its just unbelievable…
- Karina
05.18.09
My wonderful family
I do have a wonderful family.
My boyfriend is just the sweetest – he doesn’t tell me that he loves me, but he shows me so clearly every single day that I don’t need to hear him say it. Action tells a thousand times more than words..
Katrine is 3 years old and first of May she started the “big childrens” department of her kindergarten, which means she now is a forestkid. Her part of the kindergarten is a so called forest-kindergarten, which means they are outside in the forest most of the day and most of the week. There are two groups so they share. This week Katrines group is in the forest, next week she’s back home in the kindergarten grounds, playing on the playground. But she loves the forest and is grumpy when she’s not going there. Bless her. She’s truly an outdoor child.
Laura is now 5½ month old, 25.2″ long and weighs just about 10 pounds. Not much of her – but what a wonderful baby. She is such a happy sunshine girl from six in the morning to 8 in the evening. She truly shows the meaning of a child bein a sunbeam child. Such a happy kid. All smiles and cute faces all day long.
I’m truly blessed.
And now we have got a rowhouse, top modernised from basement to attic. We’re going to move in on July 31st. Can hardly wait.
- Karina
02.26.09
Time flies…and my babygirl is today 3 months old
Oh brother how time flies by. The last time I wrote in my blog, i had just found out that the baby I was expecting was a girl. And today she is 3 months old. She was born on november 26th 2008, being “Small for date” so we started with three weeks of neonatal care. Not funny but at the same time it gave me some very valuable time with my baby for she and i to get to know one another.
Her name is Laura Katarina. And she is so beautiful. Please visit her website for photos: http://www.laura-brandt.dk
Katrine loves her little sister and doesn’t know all the good she wants to do for her. Its so sweet but also a bit hard, because she is too rough on the baby in all her joy and excitement, so i have to watch them carefully.
Laura will be christened on Easter Sunday the 12th of April. Her dad will be Godfather – at least that is what we have talked about. He is now father of five and have yet never held any of his kids at the christening so I thought he should hold Laura if he wanted to, and I think he is a little touched by that. At least he blushed when I asked him if he wanted to hold her, and he said yes he would love to.
It took some time to get used to having two children in the house and get life and house organised, but we’re there now. We now have a somewhat stable daily rhythm, which is easily rocked and pushed when Katrine more or less every second week is home sick from kindergarten. But we manage. We have fun and we have a good time together, the three of us.
- karina
07.23.08
“He” is a GIRL
Oh yes, now the secret has been revealed – the scan yesterday showed that I am expecting another daughter. That is so wonderful. Now we can re-use all Katrine’s beautiful clothes, which I’ve all saved. Its a sound and healthy little girl, alive and kicing. I’m really starting to feel her a lot now. A little kick here and a little push there. Its such a wonderful feeling. Now we can start looking for a name for her, which is not going to be easy. There are so many names to chose from, but Per and I don’t really see eye-to-eye on which names are pretty… so it’ll be interesting to see what we end up with…
- Karina
07.10.08
Robbery on my bankaccount
Oh boy, I had sometimes wondered when it ´would be MY turn to try this. And this past weekend it happened.
unk-known culprits have somehow gotten hold of my creditcard number, and made transactions from my account on around 10.000 american dollars. The headseat of my bank called me about this monday morning, what a way to wake up! Thank goodness I won’t get to be in debt because of this, they have an insurance which covers this kind of thing. So the bank closed my card, and i have today received a new one with new number. That is nice, because tomorrow our yearly festival starts, it wouldn’t have been nice to go without money to that.
- Karina
06.04.08
Pregnancy going fine
Last week i was to an appointment with the nurse at my doctor’s , to fill out papers and have bloodtests done, regarding my pregnancy. Yesterday i then was at the doctor himself, and he told me all my tests were fine, nothing indicated that anything should be wrong with the baby, such as downs syndrome, which one of the tests were for. that is good to know.
It turned out though that the nurse last week had made a mistake when she calculated how far i am in my pregnancy – i am one week longer gone than she calculated, which suits me fine because i kept thinking something was wrong with her calculations, because according to myself, i was further along than she said, also according to my lilypie-ticker at the top of this site. now I know my ticker works as it should. nice.
I’m still feeling fine, a little nauseous every day from late in the afternoon till around 8 in the evening. nothing much, but enough to make me feel queezy. I’m also begining to feel the preassure from the uterus against my bladder, so every time i walk, it feels like i have to pee… THAT is annoying!!!
Apart from that, i’m enjoying being pregnant, and I’m looking forward to having one more child.
- Karina
05.27.08
Fire in the kitchen
Saturday was one of those days where Katrine made trouble from we got out of bed in the morning. Every twenty minutes she had done something new she was not allowed to. Emptied boxes she had no business looking into, emptying ALL my recordable DVDs out on the floor so now i can’t see what is up and down on them as there’s no label on them… i could go on and on. But the culmination was that she set the stove on fire in the kitchen around three in the afternoon.
I had been reborning two dolls in the morning and they were on the baking plate cooling off after last baking. I had turned off the oven. Suddenly I smelled smoke and went out there, and flames were coming up from the baking plate and licking up the dolls that were melting and getting black. She had turned on two cooking plates on which the baking plate was standing… what a shocker.
I was in tears. I had just had enough for that day. I got the fire instinguished with a wet towel, and then i had to see what i could rescue and what not of the dolls. a couple of new layers of paint helped on some of it, cutting off vinyl of some of the rest rescued that too, but I had to throw away a pair of beautiful babylegs, which i was really upset about,but there was just no rescue to those.
After that we went for a walk while the toxic fumes from burnt vinyl were fuming off in the house with open windows and doors and when we came home it was time to watch the Royal Wedding here in Danish TV.
What a day!
hugs,
Karina
Pregnant again
Hello dear friends.
Some of you know, some of you don’t – but I’m pregnant again and am due early December.
I am very happy. I am so relieved that Katrine is not going to be an only-child – I know how lonely that is, and I wouldn’t want that for anybody. When my mum dies, there will be nobody to share childhood memories with, i’ll be alone with my sorrow, i’ll be alone with clearing her house and everything that is concerned around a death and a funeral… I would really wish i had a sister or a brother. So with Katrine I have always been worried that she wouldn’t have a sister or a brother… and I could sometimes be very unhappy on her behalf. But now, if everything goes well, she’ll have a brother or a sister to share upgrowing with. That is such a relief.
hugs,
Karina
03.13.08
Cold Turkey
I’m on a cold turkey from Risperidone at the moment. that is extremely unpleasant. 5-6 days of flu symptoms… i hate it… but Risperidone hasn’t helped me anything the past two months but i’ve kept putting the cold turkey off because i didn’t have the gutts to face the withdrawels… but now I am doing it and i’m on day 4 now, which is the worst day of them all. can i get through today, it will be better tomorrow….
- Karina
02.26.08
Wonderful exhibition
SO, now I am home again after a wonderful weekend with exhibition of my dolls. It was a great weekend and I’ll never forget it. There were so many people both saturday and sunday, but hardly any of them had brought any money! I sold one doll and some dolls clothes, and Karin who also sold reborn dolls sold two dolls. I also got rid of almost all my business cards which is good. In the evening we went out to an italian restaurant and had spagettig bolognese, which could have tasted better… but their coffee was really good.
I have signed up for one more exhibition, at a castle up mid denmark. its outdoors so i really hope the weather will be with us. its in the end of May, so there’s a chance of good weather at least.
Katrine and my mum had a wonderful time together and my mum really looks forward till the next time she gets to have Katrine some days on her own, so we have agreed that she is getting to do that a few days every month from now on so I also get a bit of child-free time to take care of myself.
- Karina
