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As it turns out, my brother in laws injury was not so bad, and he wont be needing surgery, so my sister and my mom will be able to make it to Stockholm.  uuuu….. that was a close call, but now things are looking good again. I just got back from Boden, from seeing my in-laws, and we had a very nice time.  Unfortunately the weather wasn’t the greatest, but such is life. Some pictures will be coming soon.

Well, I’ve been so excited last week, because my mom, sister, and his daughter were going to  fly to Stockholm for a month in August.  However I just spoke to my sister, and I got some very bad news. It looks like she might not be able to come afterall, her husband had an accident on the bike and his knee is looking pretty bad, he’s already had surgery long time ago in what seems to be the same spot.  They haven’t been able to diagnose him yet, but it’s not looking good.  My sister is already in Mexico City, but she might have to go back to Baja.  This is so sad.  I feel so bad for him, because they depend on their health for their business. And obviously because beyond business talk,  it’s a delicate situation for him with that knee.  However I think that if this was going to happen sometime, then this was by far the best time it could have happened.  It’s the low season and he has time to do what needs to be done to recover, whatever that might be.

 However I can’t seem to feel so desappointed and sad that I might not see my sister afterall. I’ve made so many plans for her and her daughter.  This could have been her first time here in Stockholm, and  I don’t really know  when we could  have another chance like this again.  But on the other side I know that God works in mysterious ways, and I just have to trust him.

Sorry, but I’ve been traveling to Paris last week with a very good friend, cuchi, and will be traveling to Boden the next week to meet up with Daniel, my son, Hakan and his parents at the summer house.  So I will not be able to write for another week.  I do promise to keep updating afterwards. Today is July 24th

Yes, believe it or not, it happened…. I missed the plane from NY to Stockholm.  I had checked everything the night before, left everything out the door, I was sure the plane was leaving by 7pm so I took my time and left the city at 3pm. Big mistake!!! when I arrived to the airport at 4pm, I thought I still had time to put some gas in the car, so I did.  And when I was in the Airtran again…. I tried looking for my flight on the screen, but I couldn’t see it.  All of a sudden my stomach shrank, and Håkans threat earlier on the phone made sense, he had said "You’re not going to make it, you are too late!!!", "what was he talking about????, I had plenty of time, according to my calculations I sitll had 3 hours" But now, I wasn’t feeling so confident.  I took out the printout of the e-ticket, what did it say???? OOOHHHHH SHIT!!!!!!!!!! I ARRIVE AT 7 but I leave at 5:20…. It was already 4:30pm.  How could I have misread my flight itinerary… that is such a beginners mistake!!! My palms are sweating, all these thoughts rushing through my mind, "I don’t have a car anymore, SAS has only only 1 flight to Stockholm a day" "What am I going to do???" "I have Daniel with me, not enough diapers on me, no hotel."  The elevator to the checking area took what seemed like an eternity to reach its destination. I start acting in my mind what I’m going to say at the counter so they let me board the plane, should I cry or stay calm?, I think it’s useless anyway, but I’m indeed desperate. And yes of course, I don’t want to have to make that phone call to Håkan…. "I missed the plane"…..He’s going to kill me!!

 I arrive at the counter and there is no one in line, VERY BAD NEWS.  I reach the lady at the counter and she says that I have no chance in hell to get on that plane, so I start saying all the reasons why I need to be on that plane, but she doesn’t care.  However, as she sees tears coming through my eyes, and Daniel on the stroller, smiling and flirting with her…. she seems to change her mind. And she gives me what we all want in this world HOPE!!!  She says there is a chance she could put me on stand-by on a flight to Copenhagen and then maybe, once there, I could find a connecting flight to Stockholm.   I didn’t have to think about it…. I said YES!!! However in the back of my mind I was thinking "FU…..  How much is this going to cost me???" and so, in between sobbing I asked how many millions this was going to be? and surprisingly the girl said, "NOTHING!!!!!". So finally my face lit up and sunshine was again in my face, too fast maybe…..a little suspicious……….. She said "OH, don’t be so happy, that is if you get in the plane, otherwise you leave tomorrow" So I stopped celebrating in front of her.  But inside me, I was jumping, I knew there was no way I was going to miss it, I just had the cross the water, much easier to move from there.

Before I boarded the plane, I went to the phone to make that dreadful call, I knew Håkan was waiting, even though it was past midnight for him, he said he would wait to hear from me if I had made it.  He was not happy, the moment he lifted the phone he knew I had missed it, and that was bad news.  I didn’t even have to say anything I was on the phone to him when I was supposed to be on the plane already. He was angry, and bearly spoke on the phone, but hey!, at this moment nothing could be better for me, I was on my way home, and I couldn’t have been happier.

 As it turns out, I got a great seat on the Copenhagen flight, they gave me a bulk seat, so Daniel could sleep on my feet with plenty of room, although he didn’t sleep much, but it was easy enough for me to move in and out of my seat.  The connecting flight was also great, only waited for 1 hour, and I only got one bag late, the car seat made it on time and that’s exactly the one I really needed to drive from the airport home. "I still got it" I’m by far one of the luckiest persons when it comes to traveling. I do have to give credit to my Guardian Angel, who is always busy during my travelling, if it wasn’t for him, I would probably still be somewhere in Asia with my mom….jajajaja.. (inside joke), someday I’ll share my adventures of that trip……..

Pues para empezar, llevé a Daniel a su clase de estimulación temprana en el Casa Blanca Satélite.  Él ya había ido a esa clase en la última ocasión que estuvimos allá, asi es de que fue como regresar a su clase normal.  Reconoció a las maestras y trabajó muy bien con ellas.  De hecho mucho mejor que conmigo.  En Suecia también va a un gimnasio pero es totalmente diferente pues en Suecia no hay ninguna estructura, el chiste es que ellos mismos vayan y hagan lo que quieran solos, mientras que en México la clase tiene una estructura y siempre hacen lo mismo.  A Daniel le costó trabajo trabajar los ejercicios conmigo pues el quería hacer otra cosa siempre. Pero cuando la maestra lo tomó, entonces sí se integró de lleno en la clase y la pasó muy bien.  Aquí en la foto estan haciéndole avioncito y el esta riendo, como siempre…..

Lupis también lo introdujo a los que haceres de la casa, como regar las plantas, limpiar el patio, y aspirar con la mini-aspiradora.   Lupis dice que ha sacado el genio de sus padres, mejorado y aumentado.  Yo digo que le estaban empezando a salir sus muelas y que además el calor tan fuerte de México hizo que se irritara con mayor facilidad (esta es mi versión).  El caso es que de repente nos hacía cada drama! que bueno, la Lupis ya se dió cuenta de que de repente le sale lo Svensson. jijiji… porque si fuera lo Bañuelos estaría riendo todo el día.jajaja… Aunque debo decir que en Suecia si se la pasa riendo la mayoría del tiempo.  En realidad creo que fue una combinación de todo, pues acá esta acostumbrado a estar en los juegos una gran parte del día y en México pues no te da tiempo de nada, la mayoría del tiempo se la pasa uno en el coche de un lugar a otro.

 Un día Daniel hizo gran drama cuando intentamos quitarle la aspiradora, nosotras intentábamos salir, pero OH SORPRESA! Daniel tenía otro plan completamente diferente, estaba aspirando todo el piso de abajo y no quería parar. Después de varios intentos de parte de las dos, tuvimos que ceder a que saliera de la única forma que él iba a salir, efectivamente salió de la casa muy de buenas con su aspiradora en la mano, prendida y listo para continuar su tarea…..

Pues le dedico esta sección en especial a los abuelos, de verdad que disfruté mucho verlos con sus nietos todo el tiempo.  Al contrario de mis suegros que desean acercarse a Daniel, pero no saben como, mis papás no necesitan instrucción en el asunto.  Los dos se sacan un 10, ven poco a Daniel, especialmente mi papá, pero definitivamente ha logrado conectar mucho mas con él que mis dos suegros juntos, que lo ven mucho más seguido.  Normalmente en la mañana lo primero que hago es llevarles a Daniel a cama de mis papás, y a Daniel se le ha quedado la costumbre de brincar en la panza de mi papá en las mañanas, ahora hasta resulta que me levanta con sus brincos en mi panza.  También durante el desayuno sienta a Daniel en sus piernas y desayuna con él.  Lo cual a mí se me hace muy raro pues conmigo casi nunca se queda quieto en mis piernas.

Y con mi madre, pues ni hablar, La Lupita (como le digo de cariño a mi mami) es lamejor amiga de Daniel.   Le toma un par de horas para acordarse de ella y de ahí, se la pasa riendo a carcajadas!!! todo el tiempo.  Yo no sé qué juegos le hace la Lupis, y es obvio que a mí ni me pela (después de que su consentida), pues en el coche se la pasa jugando con Daniel y yo parezco chofer de segunda!!! en fin, para eso voy a México, el viaje puede ser muy largo pero despues de un día de ver como disfrutan a Daniel, definitivamente que lo vale.

Y con los cuates, WOW!!!!, tienen toda la paciencia del mundo, los adoran y les dedican toda la energía que tienen a sus nietos.  Como padres les tengo todo el respeto del mundo, y los admiro enormemente, pero como abuelos me han dejado con la boca abierta de lo excelentes que son.  Sin duda alguna que han perfeccionado el termino "abuelos".  Y los niños lo saben, Naiara adora a mi papá, apenas llega y sus ojos hasta le brillan, Daniel con mi mamá hace una mancuerna, que ni conmigo se lleva así.  Y Ander pues bueno, él se gana a los dos abuelos en segundos, con todas sus monerías.