Swedish Summer is Made of :

Street Carnivals: Mollevagen Festival

Trips to the Village Swimming Pool

Picnics: Sunset Campfire at Vomb Lake

Swedish Summer is Made of:
Family Visits
(but not much blogging time!)

In the Cherry Valley

In the West Harbor of Malmo Yeah, don't ask.

Svanholm Castle

Ale Stenar

SandHammern Beach

Happy Birthday

Nanny

and

FarFar

My mother and my husband's father share today as a birthday.

I wish I could spit out some deep thoughts to express my gratitude and love for each of these great people. I ca never say enough to express my thanks, so here is my feeble try.

Thanks mom, for everything. I wish when I gave that speech at the big PEO thing I was more well prepared, and had a big thank you to you ready for all the help and support you have given over the years. I wish I could thank you in front of a big room of people, like in that song "Anna" by Hello Saferide (the CD I left in your car) where she is dreaming of her child, imagining her daughter would have cured HIV, married a Kennedy, and thanked her mama for all the good advice. Thank you for all the good advice. And for being brownie leader, hosting so many dinners, having great birthday parties for us, sewing curtain for me and my girls, and keeping me warm, fed, educated, transported, and otherwise taken care of over the years. It has been especially fun to see what a great grandma you are. Love you.

Thanks Farfar, for being my sweet husband's dad and helping us so much. SwedeDaddy is not around to help write this post, so from me, thanks for being my husband's dad and a great Farfar for the kids. And a fun human being. We enjoy spending time with you, thanks. Love you!

Happy World Breastfeeding Week!

The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is the greatest outreach vehicle for the breastfeeding movement, being celebrated in over 120 countries. Officially it is celebrated from 1-7 August. (click for link)

The World Health Organization and UNICEF recommend you exclusively nurse your baby until age 6 months of age, and then nurse until age 2 years old or beyond.

If you have any breastfeeding questions, Dr. Jack Newman's clinic is the place to look online for accurate breastfeeding information! (click for link)

And check out your local La leche League for mother to mother support. (click for link)

SwedeGirl learned early how to properly nurture a baby, pehaps by tagging along with midwife mom to all those postpartum home visits in her early childhood! This series of pictures caught her at age 2 and 2 months holding her little 2 month old baby friend. Then spontanously doing what any good mother does with a baby!

She's a natural, huh?