Lemons and oranges, oranges and lemons!

I have so many lemons and oranges that det bara sprutar ur öronen(A swedish saying that is hard to translate, but basically means I have them coming out of my ears. How funny it sounds in English)
 Anyway, have had a semi productive day, but towards the end I started cleaning and, well, besides finding things that don't belong to me, I found loads and loads of oranges and lemons. My mom and Dad, during Christmas, drove down to Palms Springs and arrived back with boxes of fruit, I think they were thinking that the crowd that lived here, at that moment, would finish them off, but alas no such thing happened. I am therefore swimming in, a few rotten, but mostly ripe oranges and lemons. I posted it on Facebook and received many good suggestions. So I made a lemon pound cake, lemonade, and grapefruit juice, only to discover that the pile hasen't seemed to move at all. Next! I shall try my hand at marmelade. I have a new smart phone so I shall post some pictures of my success or failure. I suppose I shall just have to wait to tomorrow to show you, did you know marmalade has to sit in the fridge over night!? I had no idea, ahh the things one learns.

 Well, besides that, in two days, we will be welcoming a new person into our home. Luke Beard from England, I am looking forward to hearing his accent around the house, I love British accents and I really hope we can make him feel welcomed here. We are a sort of strange group. Tonight Christofer and Ethan were away at a meetup and during dinner no one spoke, after dinner no one spoke and now that it is 10:40pm we have barely said more than three words to each other. Not that I mind, sometimes it's important to have time of silence to clear your thoughts, but still, well, like a said a bit different.

 I better be off to check on my marmalade that is brewing in the pot, I love the idea of making marmalade, I feel so old fashion and proper :)

 Oh and I love having fresh, I mean extremely fresh, fruit during the dead of winter!

Back to my not so ordinary, ordinary life.

As Caroline and Emelie, the last of our guest and family, left on Monday morning, this week has allowed us to settle back into the normal daily life. Though our daily life isn't so normal. It has been wonderful with Zerply, lots of people signing up and lots of e-mails flowing back and forth, so much actually that I have barely had time to Facebook; considering it's me, well, that means I must be very busy. It's fun though, I really do enjoy answering inquires, hearing peoples thoughts and ideas. I am amazed that people actually take the time to write five points of ways to improve our site, putting that time and effort into complete strangers work is really fascinating and just goes to show how powerful a tool internet has become.

  Tonight, I am not working because I'm feeling under the weather and after attempting to take a bath, the water was lukewarm, a lukewarm bath is not a real bath! I sit here drinking tea, looking at Facebook pictures, contemplating life and missing Sweden. Well, missing everyone in Sweden and especially my in-laws. I am one of those rare birds that was blessed with wonderful parent-in-laws and wonderful sister-in-laws. It was so nice to have Caroline, but now she and everyone else is gone, I am left with mixed feelings of  gratefulness and sadness. Ever since I was 18 my days have been a constant saying of goodbyes and a lot of missing people, yet I never dreamed of  having such an adventurous and marvelous life, filled with so many fabulous people. I am so blessed and though I fail to love the people who are closes to me and though I fall short of even the smallest tasks I am so undeserving of the grace that I receive again and again. God is so good to me.