Swedish identity

Yes, we are Swedish, all of us. Although two out of five are also Americans. It took two weeks to be acknowledged by the swedish authorities, 6 weeks for the kids to receive their personal number and now we are also acknowledged by the health insurance. So, all is good! It takes some time to move continents, but it is not too bad actually, we haven't encountered any real problems.

The kids go to school in English, at international pre-school and international school. There are plenty nationalities at those schools. I got the use of an ICA-kort (like Jewel-card) explained to me by a french mom, in french. Which brings us to the question: What is it like to come back after 14 years?

over 1000 years old

For those of you who knew me well before we moved, know that I was not only excited to move back, but also fearful. A bit. In hindsight, I don't know what I feared, I love it here! We have started over in a new part of Sweden, we live 15 minutes from my sister and her family we live in the countryside, close to horses and meadows. In my sisters town is also where we go to church.  The kids and Andreas go to school and work in the cutest town ever (Lund) 15 minutes in the opposite direction, which provides us with everything we need and a lot of history. (The cathedral is over 1000 years old!)

It is interesting however to feel like a foreigner in ones own country. I speak the language, but there are a lot of things I don't know how they work! I didn't even know where to buy stamps anymore, as there are no post offices anymore! Sometimes I think it would make more sense if I didn't speak Swedish, when I try to figure everything out. People would probably think I'm less strange.......

Lund is a very nice place. We live 15 minutes outside of Lund, 5 minutes from the trainstation. Every other conversation in Lund is in English, there is a very large community of English speakers thanks to the University.

First horse back riding class

This part of Sweden offers lots of horse back riding classes. There are horses EVERYWHERE! Must be something in the Swedish history I have missed or something, but there were never this many horses around where I grew up! (4 hours north of here) . So all kids take horse back riding classes in the local pony-school. They love it!