3 for 2's pris - 3 for the price of 2

En af mine gryder boblede up i bunden. Det har jeg ikke oplevet før, men det var også en temmelig gammel gryde, så det var vel tid til en ny.

Så jeg gik på grydejagt. Det skulle være en all-round stålgryde i mellemstørrelse uden teflon eller andet mistænkeligt. Det kunne da ikke være så svært. Eller det var, hvad jeg troede.

Da jeg endelig havde besluttet mig for en gryde, viste ekspedienten mig et tilbud. Det viste sig, at jeg kunne få 3 gryder for en fjerdedel mere end min ene gryde kostede, og det er da fristende, for man får jo 'mere' for pengene.

Men det 'mere' er også ofte noget, man ikke har behov for!

Jeg har allerede de gryder, jeg behøver, og nu valgte jeg at købe en topkvalitet-gryde, og selvom beløbet var højt i forhold til tilbudet, sparede jeg alligevel den omtalte fjerdedel - og så er jeg heller ikke blevet ejer af 2 gryder, der ikke bliver brugt og bare står og fylder op.

Så ved at vælge den 'dyre' løsning slap jeg alligevel med betale mindre og undgik samtidig at få noget unødvendigt med hjem.

Et godt tilbud er måske ikke altid et godt tilbud, hvis man kigger på det fra alle vinkler.

Den gamle gryde - The old pot

- og den nye, hvis nogen skulle være i tvivl.

and the new one, if anyone should be in any doubts.

One of my pots bobbled up in the bottom. I haven't experienced that before, but it was quite an old pot, so I guess that it was time for a new one.

So I went pot-hunting. It should be a stainless steel all-round pot, medium size without teflon or other suspicious stuff. That couldn't be so hard. Or at least that was what I thought.

When I finally decided for a specific pot, the shop guy showed me an offer. I could actually get 3 pots by paying only the forth part more than the price of my pot! And that is really tempting, because you get 'more' for your money.

But this 'more' is also something, that you don't need.

I already have the pots, I need, and I chose to buy the top quality pot, and even though the price was high compared to the offer, I still saved the extra forth of the amount to pay for the 3 pots - and I didn't become the owner of 2 pots, which aren't being used and just take up cabinet space.

So by choosing the 'expensive' solution I paid less and avoided taking home something, which wasn't necessary.

A good offer might not always be a good offer, if you look at it from all angles.

Før julemåneden tager magten - Before Christmas takes the Power

Nu bliver jeg lige så ulidelig som reklamefolkene - men udelukkende for at undgå at blive løbet over ende af travlheden i December.

Fordi en af mine tidligere blogposts fik mig til at tænke på, at før jul skal man starte med en pause. Starte med at tænke over, hvordan den ideelle jul ser ud i ens hoved. Tænk derefter på, hvor meget eller hvor lidt den ligner den jul, som man havde sidste år. Find ud af, hvad der kan gøres bedre.

Man kan også begynde at gennemse julepynten. Hent kassen/kasserne frem og se, om du skal ændre noget, sælge noget, reparere noget, købe pærer til juletræskæderne o.s.v. Man kan ved sammen lejlighed se, om der er gavepapir, gavekort, julekort og andet til overs fra foregående år, som kan bruges i år. Så skal der købes det mindre. Brug det du har.

Hvis noget af julepynten trænger til at blive skiftet ud, så planlæg en familietur med sandwiches og varm kakao på termoflasken senere på måneden og saml skønne naturting sammen, der kan laves til smuk julepynt. Det kan være dekorative grene, som kan pyntes, eller noget man kan binde kranse af. Det kan små børn også være med til.

Når sæsonen er ovre, er pynten let at komme af med, frem for noget som man har investeret (ofte mange) penge i, og som er 'umoderne' næste år. Og det tager ikke plads op i julekasserne i et helt år.

Tal med alle i familien om, hvad de hver især synes, er det absolut bedste ved julen (ud over gaverne).Ting de gerne vil gøre mere af i år og planlæg i forvejen, hvad der er mulighed at gøre.

Det, der kan gøre julen bedre, er ikke nødvendigvis noget, som man behøver at købe sig til.

Now I am getting just as unbearable as all the Christmas advertisements - but only to prevent to get run over by the bustle of December.

Because one of my previous blog post made me think, that before Christmas you should start with a break. Start thinking about, how the ideal Christmas looks like in your head. And then think about how much or how little it looked like the Christmas last year. Find out, what can be done better.

You can also begin to go through the Christmas decorations and the ornaments. Get the box/the boxes and see, if anything should be replaced, repaired, if you have to buy new light bulbs etc. Going though the boxes you can also see, if you have left over paper, greeting cards and other things from last year. Then you have to invest less this year. Use what you have got.

If some of the decorations need replacements, then plan a family trip with sandwiches and hot cocoa in the thermo bottles later in the month to pick up things from nature, which can be made into Christmas decorations. It could be material for wreaths, which you can decorate, or beautiful branches. Smal children can easily join in on this.

Afterwards the decorations are easy to get rid of, in opposition to something which you have invested (a lot of) money in, and isn't 'in' next year. And there will be nothing left to take up space in the Christmas boxes for the next year.

Talk with everybody about, what they think are the ultimate best things about Christmas (apart from presents). Things they want to do more of this year and plan ahead to see, what is possible to do.

The things, which makes Christmas better, might not be something, which you have to buy.

Det er jul! ... - It is Christmas! Or...

Det er jul! ....Eller er det ikke?

I sidste uge var jeg nede i vores lokale supermarked, fordi jeg ville købe et lille spøgelse, jeg havde set tidligere, til mindste favoritperson. Og jeg kunne ikke finde Halloween-tingene!

Til gengæld fandt jeg julepynt!

Jeg spurgte en sød medarbejder, som ledte og ledte sammen med mig, og vi fandt stadig ingenting. Så ringede hun til en kollega, som kunne fortælle, at det var altsammen flyttet ud på torvet, for nu var det ved at være en overstået sæson, så der skulle sælges ud!

DER VAR STADIG 10 DAGE TIL HALLOWEEN- OG SÅ BLIVER JULEN MARKEDSFØRT!

Og ind imellem mangler vi også Black Friday, som ligesom Halloween er en ikke-dansk 'tradition' indført af reklamefolk!.

Hvad kan vi dog efterhånden købe, som vi ikke allerede har i forvejen? Det fatter jeg ikke! Der er nogen, der prøver at bilde os ind, at vi har brug for mere. Når vi i virkeligheden har brug for mindre og bedre!

God Jul!

Heldigvis er mindste favoritperson ligeglad - for ham er det stadig efterår, og han lavede en borddekoration

Luckily, smallest favorite person doesn't care - for him it is still Autumn, and he made a table decoration

It's Christmas... Or isn't it?

I went down to our local mall, because I wanted to buy a small ghost, which I had seen earlier, for the smallest favorite person. And I couldn't find the Halloween stuff!

But I found the Christmans stuff!

I asked a nice shop girl, who was looking around with me, and we still couldn't find anything. So she called a colleague, who told, that it was all moved out in the marketplace, because the season was over, so they had to sell out!

AT THAT POINT THERE WERE 10 DAYS TO HALLOWEEN - AND CHRISTMAS IS ALREADY MARKETED!

Next round - before Christmas - is Black Friday, which like Halloween is just another 'tradition', which isn't Danish, but one the advertising industry has adopted.

What can we keep buying, which we haven't already got? I don't understand this! There are somebody, who is trying to make us believe, that we need more. When what we actually need is less and better!

Merry Christmas!

Tilføjelse til Favorit-familien - Addition to The Favorite Family

Det, vi har ventet på, er Mini Favorit Person, som nu er kommet! Mindste Favorit Person er blevet storebror til en dejlig lillesøster! Velkommen til verden :-)

Der findes ikke større mirakel.

Storebrors første spontane kys til lillesyster.

Big Brother's first spontaneous kiss for his little sister

What we were waiting for was Mini Favorite Person, who finally has arrived! Smallest Favorite Person has become the big brother of a lovely little sister! Welcome to the world :-)

There is no bigger miracle.

Min indendørs urtehave - My Indoor Herb Garden

I dag er ventetid, og i morgen vil jeg fortælle, hvad vi venter på!

Så jeg vil lige dele min lille urtehave med jer. I går fik jeg lyst til at lave italiensk mad, og det faldt i god jord hos favorit-familien, som kom til middag.

Middagen blev citron-timian kylling med cherry tomater i flødesovs og et drys af basilikum. Selvfølgelig serveret med frisk pasta. Meget lækkert, når jeg selv skal sige det, og der blev da heller ikke meget til overs. Det er også let at lave. Enkelt og godt.

Så jeg var nødt til at købe friske krydderurter, og det bliver det hele bare meget bedre af, og de blev sat sammen med min mynte, der er groet helt ud over det hele.

Today is wait time, and tomorrow I will tell you, what we are waiting for!

So I will share my litte herb garden with you. Yesterday I felt like cooking Italian food, and the favorite family came to dinner, and they loved it.

It was lemon-thyme chicken with small tomatoes in cream sauce with a dash of basil. Served with fresh pasta, or course. Very good, if I may say so myself, and not much was left. It is also very easy to make. Simple and good.

So I had to buy fresh herbs, everything becomes so much better that way, and now they are in the pot together with my mint plant, which has grown like mad.

Tasker til en minimalist! - Bags for a Minimalist!

Hvordan belønner en minimalist sig selv? Tja, det er et godt spørgsmål. I reglen med et lækkert stykke chokolade. Men jeg havde faktisk lovet mig selv en gave - en belønning for en 'mission accomplished' - og i lørdags var indkøbsdag!

Men da jeg stod med belønningen i hånden, følte jeg trang til at tænke lidt mere. Så jeg købte den ikke, og der er to ting, som jeg har lagt mærke tid over den sidste tid:

Jeg går ikke ud og oser mere, og jeg savner det ikke. Jeg handler mad og rengøringsmidler, og hvis der er noget, der skal udskiftes, så køber jeg det - hvis jeg ikke har andet, der kan bruges i stedet. Kedeligt vil nogen sikkert synes, men for mig er det befriende.

For det andet tænker jeg meget længe over de indkøb, der kan blive en 'tilgang' til mine ejendele.

Men jeg ønsker mig en lille sort hverdagstaske. Lige nu har jeg en turkis med frynser, som jeg købte i Spanien for nogle år siden, og jeg er vild med den, men den virker lidt fjollet her i efteråret. Det er udpræget en sommertaske, og den fungerer så godt for mig rent praktisk. Den er lige den rigtige størrelse, tilpas antal rum (elsker rum i tasker) og er super lækker at røre ved. Jeg overvejede faktisk at få den farvet, men det er jo også dumt, for så har jeg den jo ikke næste sommer, når jeg ikke har lyst til sort mere.

Jeg har 4 tasker: En 11 år gammel Vuitton Noé i sort epi (min store taske, som kan indeholde 'alt' og aldrig vil blive udskiftet), en brun computertaske, den 'fjollede' turkise, og en selskabstaske, som er en lille vintage Mandarina Duck Tank taske.

Oveni har jeg så to fototasker (en stor, hvor der kan være ekstra objektiver, en sandwich og min drikkedunk og en lille, der kun er til cameraet), en trolley og en kuffert.

De tasker dækker alle mine behov, så en ny taske vil blive en 'tilgang'.

Men 'den turkise' skriger altså mod himlen, og det provokerer min farvesans nu, så det bliver nok værre, når vinteren kommer! Så måske - måske køber jeg alligevel den sorte taske.

Men jeg købte alligevel noget... :-)
Rigtig god weekend!

Den 'fjollede' - The 'silly' one

Man går aldrig galt i byen ved at købe god mad! - Blåskimmel ost og lækre oliven

You never go wrong buying good feed! - Blue cheese and yummy olives

How does a minimalist reward herself/himself? Good question. Normally with a piece of chocolate! But I had actually promised myself a gift - a reward  for a 'mission accomplished' - and last Saturday was the day.

When I stood there with my reward in my hands, I felt, that I needed to think a bit more. So I didn't buy it, and that os one of two things, which I have noticed during this year:

I don't browse around anymore, and I don't miss it. I shop food and cleaning products, and if something breakes, I replace it - if I don't have anything, I can use instead. Boring you might think, but for me it is liberating.

Second - I think a lot, before I buying something, which will become an 'addition' to my belongings.

But I want a small black everyday bag. Right now I have a turquoise one with fringes, which I bought in Spain a couple a years ago, and I love it, but it looks a bit silly here in Autumn. It is a summer bag, but it works so well for me. It has the rigtht size, it has compartments inside (love compartments), and is so wonderful to touch. I actually considered having it colored, but that's stupid too, because then I don't have it next summer, when I don't want to 'do' black anymore.

I have 4 bags: An 11 year old Vuitton Noé black epi (it's my big bag, which can contain 'everything', and I will never part with it), a brown computer bag, the turquoise 'silly' one, and a party bag, which is a small vintage Mandarina Duck Tank bag.

On top of that I have 2 photo bags (a big one with room for lenses, a sandwich and my water bottle, and a small one for my camera only), a trolley and a suitcase.

These bags cover all my needs, so a new one will become an 'addition'.

But the turquoise one screams against the sky now with all the light going, and it tricks my color perception, so it will  probably become worse, when winter is here! So maybe - maybe I will buy the black bag anyway.

But I bought something... :-)

Have a great weekend!

Reklamefolk - STOP DET! - Advertisers - STOP IT!

Hvad i alverden har reklamefolk gang i?

Jeg har lige købt æg, og jeg køber økologisk æg. I 'pakken' var der æg i forskellige farver, og Niels og Grethe, som ejer de godt behandlede høns, har lagt en hilsen i, der fortæller alt om hønsene og æggene. Fint nok!

Men måske skulle vi spare lidt på romantikken, for jeg har ikke brug for at få en lille 'rede med 5 æg' - for nu er der jo kun 5 æg og ikke 6 æg i pakken til nogenlunde samme pris. Jeg er da glad for at vide, at æggene er lagt under gode forhold, men fri mig for mere skrald i min skraldespand!

Er tiden inde ikke til, at vi får vores dagligvarer indpakket i så lidt som muligt? Og så samvittighedsfuldt som muligt?

Så hvad i alverden sker der med den gang 'redefyld', som I har puttet i? Er det meningen, at jeg skal blive blød om hjertet, når jeg pakker mine æg ud og udbryde: "Nååååh, hvor sødt!"

Eller pjækkede I fra timen, hvor der blev fortalt om, at vi producerer alt for meget skrald i verden allerede? Der er mildest talt ikke brug for, at I pådutter os mere.

Historiefortælling er fint, men hvis I virkelig vil imponere, så find emballageformer - hvis det er absolut nødvendigt med emballage - der ikke giver forbrugerne mere at smide ud, og når det er nødvendigt med emballager, at vi så kan smide ud med - om ikke god - så med bedre samvittighed!

Opfind noget af den slags, og så bliver jeg imponeret! Og vil jeg sprede beskeden! Men lige nu ved jeg ikke, om jeg skal grine eller græde!

What on earth are advertisers thinking of?

I have just bought eggs, and I buy organic eggs. In the 'package' was eggs in different colors, and Niels and Grethe, who owns the chickens, which are very well treated, have put in a small note telling all about the chickens and the eggs. All good!

But maybe we should save the romance a little, because I don't need a little 'nest with 5 eggs' - because now there are only 5 eggs and not 6 as usual, at more os less the same price. I have happy to know that the eggs are produced under nice conditions, but please spare me for the extra trash in my trash bin!

Isn't it time that we get our everyday groceries wrapped as little as possible? With as much environmental conscience as possible?

So what on earth is happening with the nest filling, which you have added to my eggs? Am I supposed to unwrap my eggs and burst out: "Aaaaawwwhhh! How sweet!".

Or did you just ship the class, where the teacher told about, that we already are producing way too much trash in the world? We don't need you to force more of that into our lives!

Story telling is fine, but if you really want to impress, then invent wrapping - if at all necessary - which doesn't give us more to toss, and when it is necessary then give us packaging, which can be disposed of with - if not with good conscience - then at least with better conscience.

Invent something like that, and then I will get impressed! And I will tell about it! But right now I don't know, if I should laugh or cry!

Make-up spild - Make-up Waste

Man taler en masse om spild. Madspild, spild af tid, spild af penge, spild af ressourcer og så videre. Og med god grund! Men der findes også spild af make-up!

Når man køber make-up - uanset hvad - skal man aldrig begynde at beregne kilo-prisen, for det er latterligt, hvor meget det koster!

Men man kan gøre noget for sig selv for at få den fulde udnyttelse af det, man køber. Jeg har i lang tid klippet mine tuber op, og det er helt vildt, hvor meget der stadig sidder tilbage, som kan kommes over i en brugt dåse eller et glas.

Denne Maybelline BB cream, som jeg er meget begejstret for, fordi den ikke indeholder hormon- eller miljøforstyrrende stoffer, var 'tom', indtil jeg klippede den op. Nu har jeg til mindst 3 ugers yderligere brug.

So many people talk about waste. Food waste, waste of time, waste of money, waste of resources and so on. And with good reason! But there is also waste of make-up!

When you buy make-up - no matter what - you should never calculate the price by the kilo, because it is ridicolous, how expensive it is!

But you can do a lot for yourself to get the full use of, what you have bought. I have for a long time been cutting up my tubes, and there is really a lot contents left, which you can scrape out and put in a jar.

The Maybelline BB cream, which I am very pleased with, because it doesn't contain hormone- og environmental disturbing substances, was 'empty', until I cut it open. Now I have for at least 3 weeks of use.

Venne-support er uvurderlig! - Support from Friends is priceless!

Dagen derpå - den forsvandt! Der var så meget at fordøje, mails, sms'er og FB kommentarer, som kom ind. Jeg fik so god support af vennerne inden eventen - både forud, under og efter.
Tusind tak for det! Det var uvurderligt!

Og jeg må sige, at publikum var godt. Ret fantastisk, faktisk!

Det hele blev optaget på video, så jeg kan se, hvad der kan forbedres, for man bliver jo ikke bedre, hvis man ikke vil forsøge at gøre det en tand bedre næste gang.

Og nej, vodepem er ikke af en teknisk kvalitet, så den bliver offentliggjort. Men måske næste gang. For jeg har besluttet, at der kommer en næste gang!

Rigtig god weekend!

The day after - just disappeared! There were so many things to digest, mails, text messages and FB comments coming in. I had great support from friends - before, during and after.
Thank you so much! I cannot tell, how much I appreciate that!

And I must say that the audience was a good one. Great actually!

The whole thing was filmed, and I am going to look through it to see, what can become better, because you don't get any better, if you don't want to make it even better next time.

And no, sorry, the video is not of a technical quality to be published. Maybe next time. Because I have decided, that there will be a next time.

Have a great weekend!

Små mirakler - Small Miracles

Når mindste favorite person er her på en sleep-over, finder vi på forskellige ting at gøre, der ikke koster andet end indsats.

Han har altid legetøj med, og jeg har også en kasse med forskellige legeting. Men meget ofte bliver det aldrig pakket ud. Han går i køkkenet og finder nogle skeer, roder lidt rundt i skabet og finder nogle tæpper, bygger noget af sofapuderne, og så er han ridderen på borgen, der bekæmper monstre og drager! Ind imellem er han også skurken! Og somme tider skal vi bare ligge og læse.

For et stykke tid siden talte vi om, at kerner af forskellig slags kan blive til planter. Mindste favoritperson elsker melon, så vi aftalte at tørre nogle melonkerner og plante dem. Der var jord over hele køkkenet, men det var alt svineriet værd, og nu 12 dage senere er der kommet en lille bitte plante op. Jeg tog et billede og sendte en sms til største favoritperson, så mindste-mand kunne se det! Svaret kom promte: "Er der meloner på?"

Så hurtigt går mirakler jo ikke, men det gør tiden med et 3½-årigt mirakel. Det er vildt, hvor meget de lærer i den alder.

Dét er et mirakel!

When the smallest favorite person is here on a sleep-over, we find different things to do, which doesn't cost anything, but effort.

He always brings a backpack with toys, and I also have a box with toys. But very often it isn't being unpacked at all. He goes to the kitchen to find some wood spoons, takes the pillows from the sofa, looks for blankets in the closet, builds a castle, and becomes the knight fighting monsters and dragons! Though sometimes he is the villain! And sometimes we just lay down reading a pile of books.

A while ago we talked about, that seeds of different kinds can grow into plants. Smallest favorite person loves melons, so we decided to dry some melon seeds and plant them.  There was plant soil all over the kitchen, but it was so much fun. And now 12 days later a small plant has appeared.
I took a photo and sent it to the oldest favorite person, so smallest favorite person could see it. The answer came immediately: "Are there any melons?"

Well, miracles do not go that fast, but time with a 3½ year old miracle does. It is crazy, how much they learn at that age.

That's a true miracle!

100 små ting - 100 Small Things

Når man forbereder en event som den, jeg er i gang med, så er det småtingene, der tager tid. Alle detaljerne. Alt det, der skal rettes, fordi det ikke helt er forløbet som forventet. Men det skal nok gå. Lige nu padler jeg rundt imellem en masse mennesker og ting, der skal skrives.
Så kaffe er en god ven!

When you are preparing an event like the one, I am preparing now, then it is all the small things, which are stealing the time. All the details. The things, which have to be corrected, because they didn't turn out as expected. But I will make it work. Right now I am 'paddling' around between a lot of people and things to be written.
So coffee is a good friend!

En dejlig, travl dag - A Wonderful Busy Day

Tidligt op. Træning. Frisør (ny frisure). Handle. Hjem og lave mad. Hente mindste favoritperson og være sammen med ham nogle timer, til hans Mamie kom hjem. Hjem og lægge sidste hånd på maden (som skulle medtages til festen) og så til fest. Næstældste favoritpersons fødselsdag.
Dejlig dag. Så træt. Godnat.

Up early. Doing my gym. At the hairdresser (new hair do). Shop. Home to cook. Pick up smallest favorite person and spend a couple of hours with him, until his Mum came home. Back home and make the last finishes on the food (to bring to the party), and go to the party. Second eldest favorite person's birthday party.
Wonderful day. So tired. Goodnight.

Foredrag og film - A Talk and A Movie

Det er så spændende! Den 13. oktober holder jeg foredrag og viser en dokumentar film om minimalisme og forbrug.

Foredraget hedder "Et enklere liv: Sådan gør du", hvor jeg fortæller om, hvordan jeg har arbejdet mig ud af at drunke i ejendele til at leve enklere - minimalistisk på min måde. Jeg vil gerne dele mine erfaringer, så andre måske ikke behøver at opleve en oprydning så vanskelig, som min var, og jeg vil også gerne fortælle om, hvad det har betydet for mig at leve med 'mindre'.

Filmen, jeg viser, hedder: "Minimalism - A Docomentary About the Important Things" af og med Joshua Fields Millburn og Ryan Nicodemus, kaldet The Minimalists. To mænd, som havde det hele: Rigdom, travlt arbejdsliv og ting, ting, og atter ting. Men de besluttede sig for at gøre noget ved det. -At leve med færre ejendele, mindre ejendom – og med langt mere egentlig livskvalitet. Undervejs møder vi også mennesker, der har fundet andre måder at leve minimalistisk på, hver med deres egen inspirerende historie, og filmen kommer rundt om arkitektur, 'tiny-house living', mode, miljø, forbrugsvaner – og viser konsekvenserne af en forbrugerkultur, der er løbet løbsk.

Jeg glæder mig helt vildt og er så glad for al den hjælpsomhed, jeg har mødt, midt i alt det nye som jeg har stukket næsen i.

Detaljerne om tid og sted kan findes her på FB, og I er meget velkomne.

I am so excited! The 13th of October I will give a talk and show a documentary movie about minimalism and consumerism.

The talk is called: "A Simpler Life: How To Do It", where I am talking about, how I have worked my way out of drowning in my excessive number of belongings and have started to live a simpler life - my way. I want to share my experiences with other, so that they might not get a clean out as difficult as mine was, and I want to tell, what it has meant for me to live with 'less'.

The movie is: "Minimalism - A Docomentary About the Important Things", which a lot of Americans know very well already, and it is made by and with Joshua Fields Millburn og Ryan Nicodemus, called The Minimalists, who had it all: Money, living busy lives, owning stuff, stuff, stuff. But they decided to do something about it. They wanted to live with less stuff and property - and with a lot more life quality. In the movie we also meet people, who each have found their own way to live a simple lif, and we will hear their inspiring stories, and we will also hear about minimalistic architecture, tiny-house living, fashion, environment, cosumer habits - and we will see the consequences of a comsumer culture, which has run wild.

I am really looking forward to this night, and I am so happy for all the help, I have received in this for me totally new thing, which I have stuck my nose into.

Unfortunately, this goes on locally, but you can see the event on here on FB, - but if you are here in Copenhagen, you are so welcome to join!

Bomulds-servietter og fødselsdag - Cotton Napkins and A Birthday

I går 'debuterede' mine stofservietter - næsten ubemærket! Der var kun en, der havde lagt mærke til det, da jeg nævnte det! Ret overraskende, men alle kunne lide det. Ikke mindst mig. Jeg strøg halvdelen, men jeg synes ikke, at det er nødvendigt. Jeg tror, at det er noget, der er kommet for at blive.

I dag er det næstældste favoritpersons fødselsdag. Vi er totalt fest-mindede, når nogen har fødselsdag, og de dage starter altid med, at alle samles til morgenmad - uanset om det er hverdag eller fridag. Hvis det er hverdag, må man bare lidt tidligere op!

Og så er reglen, at fødselaren ikke laver noget eller betaler noget. Det er en dag totalt på frihjul, og aftenen slutter med, at vi går ud og spiser, og gæsterne deles om udgiften. Vi vælger et børnevenligt sted med god mad, så alle kan være med.

Det bliver en god dag! - og det ønsker jeg også for jer!

Yesterday it was the 'debut' for my cotton napkins - and it went almost un-noticed! Only one person had seen it, when I mentioned it! Quite surpricing, but everybody liked it. Including me. I ironed half of them, but I don't think, that it is necessary. And I think, that it is something, which has come to stay.

Today it is the birthday of the second eldest favorite person. We are totally party-minded, when it is somebody's birthday, and those days are starting with breakfast together - no matter if it is a work day or a day off. If it is a work day, you just have to get up at bit earlier!

The rules for birthdays are, that the birthday person doesn't do or pay for anything. It is a total free day, and in the evening we go out for dinner, and the guests pay the bills. We choose a child friendly place with good food, so everybody can come.

It is going to be a good day! - hopefully for you, too!