Happy New Year!

I hope you had a very nice Christmas-celebration, with or without your family and friends!! Wherever you were and who you were with:) And I hope you remembered to think of who’s birthday we are celebrating!

My thoughts went to a dear friend in Uganda and her family. They lost a doughter and a sister in an accident right before Christmas.

It was good to come home on December 19th, to have over two weeks at home, off from the life in Oslo. But it was  not two weeks off from work. I got a job in a ward for patients with heart-problems, some shifts around Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, but was free in between. So I had plenty of time hagning out with family during daytime and friends in the evenings:D

But everything was not as we planned the Christmas to be. One of the days before, my oldest nephew, Oskar, was admitted in the hospital. He stayed there for a few days and came out on Christmas Eve. Was admitted again on New Years Eve for a few days, but they finally found the right medicin for his epilepsy and he is much better now!

Christmas Eve I worked day-shift, so I came home to the nice part, missing the stress to get all things finished before 5 o’clock when we are eating the Christmas dinner. When we were satisfied and the kids were ready for the gifts we went to my sister and her family’s place to open the presents. I went to Oskar to be with him for some time, and when I came back I had dressed up like the Santa!

“Hi Uncle Per, I know that it’s you!”
                                          Jakob

On Christmas Day we got the sad message that my mum’s aunt had had a big stroke and didn’t make it. The funeral was held January 4th.

This was the first Christmas in a long time that has been white, so it was easier to get the Christmas-mood. The weather was really nice some days, so we were outside playing in the snow, me and Jakob went to a hill-top to sled and on Boxing Day me, my parents and Ragna went to the beach to see frozen see tangles and just enjoy the nice weather.

Boxing Day we went to my grandparents’ where we gather every Christmas. It was not the same this year, since my grandmother lost her sister the day before, but we ate a lot of good food and had a nice time together anyway, with games and a quiz.

New Years Eve we had my other sister and her family visiting for dinner. My nephew had seen fireworks the day before, which he thought was very exciting, so he went around, saying “boom”.

Three generations working in the kitchen

“BOOM”. When it got a little scary,
it was good to be safe in granddad’s arms!

Later I had some friends over and we had a really nice time:D We played games, ate good food and enjoyed each others company. I went to bed at 4.30 am New Years Day..

Ragnhild and Trygve:)

Three different persons, three different moods

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Today is January 8th, and I’m back in Oslo! Have already started my last semester in nursing. It will contain two weeks of school, 9 weeks of practical studies in a ward for people with fractures and 7 weeks of writing my bachelor-paper. May 23rd is my deadline but I hope to be done on the 20th!