Priceless / Neprocjenjivo

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Some people would pay millions for some paintings (old post) but I have my own artist that is quite active in producing new paintings. She decided to paint grandpa. I think she really misses him. This painting we call “Grandpa sitting in the sofa and watching tv.” Grandpa also said that he absolutely wants this picture so said and done we framed it. Now it is just waiting for grandpa to come and pick it up 🙂

Neki ljudi bi platili milione za neke slike (stari post) ali ja imam svoju malu umjetnicu što je prilično aktivna u proizvodnji novih slika. Jučer je odlučila da uslika didu. Mislim da joj nedostaje. Ovu sliku zovemo “Dido sjedi u sofi i gleda tv”. Naravno dido je odmah rekao da hoće sliku tako da smo je odmah uramili. Sad samo čekamo didu da dođe po nju 🙂

Easter surprise / Uskrsno iznenanđenje

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As you mìght know I am THE unreligious person so imagine my surprise yesterday as I was told that the whole next week kindergarten was to be closed. I love my childen BUT I am still not recovered from the everlasting serial of  cold, flu, tonsillitis and so on and thus for the moment I don’t feel for spending 24/7 for a week alone with the children. I am horrible I admit. Yesterday they had a eastern breakfast at kindergarten so children could bring cakes or other things they wanted to. Ada and I decieded to make cinemon buns. Ada loves baking and it was a mother daughter moment of bonding. Kao što možda do sad već znate jedna sam jako nereligiozna osoba tako da sam se pravo iznenadila kad mi u vrtiću rekoše da su čitavu slijedeću sedmicu zatvoreni. Stvarno volim svoju djecu ali mjeseci sa prehladama, gripama, gnojnom anginom itd. su doveli da se osjećam umorno i nemam baš nikakvu volju/ snagu da po čitav dan i čitavu sedmicu sama budem djecom. Grozna sam ali samo na trenutak. Jučer su u vrtiću imali uskrsni doručak tako da su djeca mogla ponijeti sa sobom neki kolač, sok ili nešto što im se sviđa. Ada voli kuhati i praviti kolače tako da smo iskoristile taj momenat da se sbližimo..The basket she made herself / Korpu je sama napravila 🙂

A Michelin star / Michelin zvijezda

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Or not 🙂
Today, Adrian ate his first solid food or rather he tried it. It was cooked carrot but he didn’t like it too much. That is quite a difference from Ada that was eating everything….I hope it is only a phase and he gets used to the food 🙂
Ili ne 🙂
Danas je Adrian po prvi put jeu “tvrdu” hranu.  Skuhala sam mu mrkvu ali nije je baš nešto plaho gotivio, što je baš razlika od Ade koja je sve jela… Nadam se da je to samo faza i da će se brzo naviknuti na hranu 🙂

First parent-teacher meeting / Prvi roditeljski sastanak

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The first meeting we would have regarding Ada was today at 8.00h and what happened. We overslept! Imagine our panic when we got  up and ran through the apartment to pack all our stuff to get to the kindergarten in time. Ensar was finished first with Ada so they left first and and after came I with Adrian, with the second car because I didn’t want to miss the first development talk with her preschool teacher. I came half an hour late…for the first meeting!  So embarrassing, but at least I came 😛
The meeting itself was very interesting. I found it quite fascinating how they have followed her development the last half a year. How they read her as person. I found it fascinating to hear specific things about this little person you call your daughter. How she is and what she does. How her personality is developing. I was sitting there and thinking woow. I have a great daughter!
Prevod: Djeca su kao mokar cjement. Šta god padne na njih ostavi utisak. -Dr. Haim Ginott

Danas u 8h ujutru smo trebali imati prvi roditeljski sastanak za Adu. I šta se desi? Mi prespavamo tako da smo paniku dobili kad smo vidjeli koliko je sati. Počeli smo po stanu trčati ko ludi da spakujemo djecu da krenemo. Ensar je bio gotov prvi sa Adom tako da su oni prvi krenuli. Ja nisam htjela da promašim roditeljski tako da sam ja sa Adrianom kratko nakon njih isto krenula. Zakasnila sam pola sata…baš me bilo sramota, ali barem sam došla 😛
Roditeljski je bio pravo zanimljiv. Bilo mi je fascinantno kako su pratili Adin razvoj u zadnjih pola godine. Bilo mi je fascinantno čuti te konkretne stvari o ovoj maloj osobi što je moja kćerka. Kakva je kao osoba. Kako i šta radi, kako se ponaša. Kako se njezina ličnost razvija. Sjedila sam tamo i kontala u sebi -“woow, imam super kćerku!”.

Fed up / Dosta mi je

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For months now there is always someone in the family being sick. Ada is coughing for months. She hardly hears because of all the fluid behind her ears. Adrian is on antibiotics because we do not want to risk pneumonia and on top of that I had to go to the doctor because I am coughing like some old smoker. Doctor listened to my lungs and said oh you need antibiotics. So now I have to take antibiotics, Adrian is taking them and since we do not know whether Ada is just coughing or she also has a problem I have to take her too to the doctor. I am so FED UP with it.
Mjesecima je uvijek neko bolestan u familiji. Ada kašlje mjesecima. Jedva čuje jer je iza uha puno tečnosti. Adrian je na antibioticima jer ne smijemo rizikovati upalu pluća. I na to sve sinoć osjetim kako mi se stežu pluća kad dišem i odem danas kod doktora. I čuda on mi prepiše antibiotik jer mi plućno krilo pišti kao kod pušača  kad dišem. I sad ja moram piti antibiotik, Adrian ih pije i ko zna ako Ada kašlje zato što mjesecima kašlje ili možda i ona mora piti antibiotik. Tako da danas opet po drugi put moram kod djećijeg doktora. Mogu reći da mi je puna kapa svega…

“Boost week” / “Pojačanje” sedmica

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There is the Chinese saying “A healthy man has thousands of wishes, a sick man has just one“. I feel a little like that. Somehow we don´t manage to get healthy. For months we have been sick and last night was horror with Adrian. He could hardly breath and I had to hold him in my arms the whole night. Today, the doctor than decided to give him antibiotics to lower the risk of pneumonia. Just 5 months old he has to take antibiotics. I feel so sad about it. On the other hand I do feel grateful there are any antibiotics at all.
Since, I am also sick for ages I have decided to start a “boost”- week. I have bought Orthomol immun and drink Floradix so that hopefully I also recover. So instead of go shopping stuff I really want to, I have started the spring shopping with medicine. Arghhh…

Ima ona kineska poslovica “zdrav čovjek ima hiljadu želja a bolestan samo jednu“. Tako se nekako ja trenutno osjećam. Mi nikako da ozdravimo. Mjesecima smo bolesni i prošla noć je bila strašna sa Adrianom. Nije mogao disati tako da sam ga čitavu noć u rukama držala. Danas je doktor odlučio da mu ipak počnemo antibiotike davati da ne rizikujemo upalu pluća.  Samo mu je 5 mjeseci i već mora uzimati antibiotike. Toliko mi je žao zbog toga. U drugu ruku mi je drago da uopšte imamo antibiotike.
Pošto sam I ja bolesna već mjesecima odlućila sam da uradim “pojačanje”-sedmicu gdje ću sve moguće stvari koristit da ojaćam imunski sistem. Kupila sam Orthomol Immun i floradix pa ćemo vidjeti ako čarobna formula pomogne. Tako ja, umjesto da idem u proljetni šoping i da kupujem sebi stvari koje stvarno hoću da imam poćela proljeće sa kupovinom lijekova… da poludim….

“MAMA” for the first time / Mama – prvi put

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Today, Ada wrote “MAMA”  for the first time )ok not 100% correct but still). She did it all by herself so I got so surprised. She already knows how to spell her name but had some problems with the letter “D”, so I told her that “D” is a line “I” with a belly.  She remembered it but still asked if she wrote it correct 🙂
Adrian on the other hand is still sick with fever and very bad caughing. He talks much when he is ok and has already said something similar to “mama” a couple of times but I think it was more an coinsidence than purpose. Still it made me happy 🙂
Danas je Ada po prvi put napisala “MAMA”. Sama je to uradila tako da sam se pravo iznenadila. Zna već svoje ime napisati ali ima mali problemčić sa slovom “D”. Rekla sam joj da je to crtica “I” sa stomačićem. To joj je bilo smiješno i zapamtila ga, ali još uvijek pita ako ga tačno napisala:)
Adrian je i dalje bolestan. Gadno kašlje već sedmicama i samo je gore. Nadam se da neće preći u upalu pluća. Inače kad mu se temperatura spusti jako puno prića i već je nekolika puta nešto poput “mama” rekao. Mislim doduše da je to više slučajnost ali me ipak pravo obradovalo 🙂

Update stocks- March / Ažuriranje dionica – mart

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This month Axfood, Sagax and SEB  are  paying the dividends. So A&A get 120 kr dividends from Axfood and 41 kr from Sagax . Altogether 161 kr that will be reinvested.
Even though H&M has been in negative discussions lately I bought 2 H&M stocks and hope that H&M will manage to recover. I give them this year for it, otherwise I believe I will sell them off and buy some other stocks. (In the picture the 55 kr from SEB are also included). It is nice to see that in March we are already getting half the dividends as we had for the whole year 2016.In my portfolio, I had obtained 250 Units of Dividend Sweden, because I used the 750 subscription rights that the owners got. I also got 246 kr dividends from Axfood. These I reinvested in 12 Sagax D stocks increasing the dividend 24 kr per year.
It feels nice to get the dividends even if right now every stock at Stockmarket feels too expensive.

First touch / Prvi dodir

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There is something magical with the spring and how all nature wakes up from the winter sleep. We went to the Karlsruhe Castle park to enjoy the 24 degrees and the beautiful day.
Here, for the first time, Adrian experienced to lay on the grass and to touch it with his small little hands. It was fun to watch his reaction. He was like a little scientist checking it all out touching, smelling, watching. He was playing with it for some 10 minutes which is an eternity in his world. He loved it 🙂 Ima nešto čarobno kad proljeće dođe i priroda se probudi iz svog zimskog sna. Otišli smo do Karlsruhe palače i uživali smo u 24 stepena i u prelijepom danu. Ovdje je po prvi put Adrian legao na i dirao travu. Bilo je zanimljivo gledati njegovu reakciju. Bio je poput malog naučnika mirisao je, dirao je i gledao je travu. Igrao se travom sigurno nekih 10 minuta što je u njegovom svijetu jedna vječnost. Pravo je uživao 🙂

Multilingualism / Višejezičnost

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It is funny how languages can provide kind of a status to a person. I have for example met a lot of East European people that do not teach their children the mother tongue. They come up with some weird arguments of how a child has to learn one language properly first or they do not need it anyway because they live in Germany / Sweden. The people around us will also not say anything to it. If the situation would be that the parents speak German, English  or French people would consider you an idiot not teaching your children your language.
I have also through my whole life never ever met a person being sad having been thought an additional language be it swahili or English. However, I have met a lot of people that where sad that their parents have NOT taught them their mother tongue. Some of them where really disappointed and meant that the parents should have left the choice to them whether to use or not to use the language.
My husband and I have decided to teach Ada Swedish and Bosnian.  She also learns German in kindergarten. Additional to that she speaks some English also, probably from the cartoons.
It is soo amazing how fast she switches between the languages and how well she speaks all the languages. One thing though that fascinates me most is how logical she thinks and it is funny how the language would sound without the irregular verbs…cool 🙂
Interesantno je kako jedan jezik može dati vrstu statusa jednoj osobi. Npr. srela sam mnogo istočnih evropljana koji neće da nauče svoju djecu svoj maternji jezik. Za to imaju čudne argumente poput ne treba djeci taj jezik jer ionako žive u Švedskoj / Njemačkoj.  Ljudi u okolini im ništa ne kažu na tome jer se radi u “pogrešnom jeziku”. Da je situacija slijedeća da roditelj priča njemački, engleski ili francuski ljudi bi te smatrali budalom što ne ućiš dijete svoj jezik. Tako da ima neka vrsta “jezične diskriminacije”. Šteta jer je to velik gubitak i za djecu i za društvo.
Isto tako nikad u životu nisam srela nekog da mu je smetalo što su ga roditelji naučili jedan dodatni jezik bio to swahili ili engleski. Ali sam ih dosta srela koji su bili razočarani što ih roditelji nisu maternji jezik naučili. Čest argument kod ove djece je da su im roditelji trebali ostaviti tu odluku da oni odluče da li će pričati svoj jezik ili ne.
Muž i ja smo odlučili da Adu učimo i švedski i bosanski. U vrtiću uči njemački. Isto je od nekud pokupila malo engleskog. Vjerovatno od crtana.
Fascinirajući je kako brzo mijenja jezike kad priča i kako svaki jezik dobro priča. Ali jedna stvar što mene najviše fascinira je logika kojom je jezik napravljen. Ada prati logiku i samim tim griješi kad treba biti nepravilni glagol, tako da ustvari čuješ kakav bi trebao jezik zaprave biti da je skroz logičan…cool 🙂