My aunts husband does every year arrange a halloween party where all families in our small neighbourhood is invited. It is usually filled with interesting foods, snacks, music and a haunted tractor ride in the forest! Even though I'm the only one my age (as the others are either 5 years younger or 20 years older than me) I still enjoy dressing up and have a fun time!

This Sunday morning I spent with a big part of my family to basically set fire to our Christmas trees tog et rid of them and in the end have a real BBQ! It was a nice spring day.. or so we thought until we came down to the water and the wind was nearly blowing us away. It was really like experiencing all of the four seasons in two hours. First you were two hot and then in the next second you nearly froze to death. But as the the family we are, we made the best out of the situation. Even though I was worried that we would burn down the forest several times before the day was over we all managed to get away from there without doing to much damage.



I think it's really nice to have days like this, when you just get out in the forest and even though everything don't go as planned you still have a great time. It gives you some time to relax from the everyday life and enjoy the nature and the company of your family!

So this Tuesday was my 18th birthday. I don't really know how to feel about that. For a while I've had a bit of a crisis about me not having my life together (like my driving license, bank stuff and washing my clothes?!?). I do however realize now that not so much have changed. Yes I do have to fix my driving lessons and learn to wash my clothes, but I did actually go to the bank to day (by myself!!) to get my new bank card. Adult points to me!

I and my 80 year old friends celebrated this very exciting day by going to a cute little café in the old town. The interior was absolutely adorable and reminded me lots about really old Swedish houses. We spent around two hours there chatting away about everything. I had a really nice time but I had to leave to have dinner with my parent around half six which also was very lovely. It was all in all a very nice 18th birthday!

As it is the last day of the year, I tend to try and look back at the year which has gone and see what has been good and what has been less good. 2016, as we all know, have not been looked upon as a positive year in the bigger picture. But if I look just at myself, 2016 has been full of learning experiences for me. I have learned a lot about myself this year but also about people and the world around me. I have started to do more of the things I love, but also try to look at the things I don't love doing from another perspective. Everything you do can't be something you enjoy doing but you can always learn from these things, and I enjoy learning.

In 2017 I'm gonna try to focus on doing the things I love and not stress over things I can't do anything about. This does not mean that I'm not going to care but that I'm not going to let it get to me. I'm also gonna lay more time and thought in to doing the things I love and make it the best I can do.




These pictures are from the past week this Christmas break where I spend the majority of my time in the stable, where I love to be. It has given me a happy and calming, but still challenging last week of the year.

Happy New Year from me, and I'll see you in 2017.