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Shopping with a person with ADHD is .. interesting.

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Sent two assignments in. Went shopping. Studied more. Made dinner. E is sleeping, and I am in bed.

Hello my beautiful sunflowers 🌻 Today have been a kinda hard day for me.

I have studied pretty much all day today. Sent two assignments in plus two that was not an assignment yet. How? From the books. The teacher writes the questions that are in the books as assignments, so I did that. “Wow, it goes fast,” was a comment from my teacher. Funny! So I explained to her why I do so much now. In case my son gets the flu/gets sick, I won’t fall behind so much. Which is true, though.

I wrote yesterday about the microwave and how it flashed, so it died. It broke my routine for the night, but luckily for me! WE WENT SHOPPING! Woho! We bought a new microwave today so my nightly popcorn can happen again! Happy Emma!

Why nightly popcorn? I don’t know, honestly. It started this winter that I ate popcorn every night and now can’t stop. Lol! So last night was a bit hard for me 😅 but today I got my popcorn! 🍿 🍿

While buying the microwave, I decided to buy a new pencil case. Yes, I bought one. Even though I have one but I cant find it now. I have a gut feeling at I have accidentally thrown it away. Not sure though but oh well. I need a pencil case for the studies so, I bought one. $9 😮‍💨 So expensive! My other pencil case is bought for $3. That’s triple the amount. Insane!

I also “ran” around in the store, looking for stuff and on stuff. I was all over. Even I would have complained if I saw how I was walking around, etc. Lol! No, no one complained but I got a lot of looks, lol.

Afterwards we went to another store where I bought two new frying pans, a bottle of shower cream, and 😏 an 8-pack of Pepsi Max. Hehe. The addiction is real, people. Horrible, but it’s there. I have found a way, though, to minimize my drinking during the days (no, I’m not talking about alcohol. Only Pepsi Max), and that is I don’t drink out of glasses where I can see how much I have in it. I use my water bottle metallic thermos and drink out of. Works so well! Since I did that, I have not been drinking as I used to! So lets continue and see if I hopefully can minimize it 60% (or more).

So now my bag is packed with laptop, books, papers, pencil case, extra books that I’m selling tomorrow and tomorrow morning I will pack down chargers for my phone, laptop and headphones.

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Today’s dinner is simple yet so yummy. Even E said repeatedly, “Yum!” “So good!” “Good!” “Yummy.” That made me so happy! He is very selective when it comes to food but thanks to the fact that we have been challenging him a lot when it comes to food, he can eat almost anything. Except soup,which I understand him.

Maybe it doesn’t look so yummy in the picture, but it was delicious for the tummy.

Minced meat with red onions & cooking cream. Gluten free pasta for me (I’m gonna try gluten free to see if I’m allergic to gluten) and some vegetables 🥰

Yes, it looks A LOT on the plate but I could only eat at most half.  🥴 Too much, but honestly, it’s not a lot on the plate. Oh well.

So im off to bed now. The alarm goes off in five hours 🥴 and honestly, I’m hungry!

Thursday schedule in school;

9am – 12am Food and health

12am/pm to 1pm Lunch

1pm – 4pm Health pedagogy (is that even the correct word? According to Google translate it is)

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Goodnight my sunflowers 🌻

My autistic son said a few words!

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I have so many blog post ideas! I wish I could write them all now but I will save up and share with time 🤭 sneaky sneaky.

Good afternoon, my beautiful people! It’s Saturday, which means a chaotic morning with my son. Out of nowhere he started to have a nosebleed. No reason, it just came. So that was stressful for us, but he was actually more calm than me. Crazy indeed!

“I want buy ice cream” < My son’s words that he repeated all morning. So after a lot of nagging and repeating, M gave in. So he and I went to the store and bought a pack of 8 ice creams. When I opened the door (I was home), E had apparently run back home, so he was breathing a lot. I asked M why he was breathing like that, and he told me. I burst out laughing! THE CRAVING FOR ICE CREAM WAS REAL, FOLKS!

“Popcorn. I want Popcorn”. He knows its Saturday and Popcorn is one snack he gets.

mind you that he use signs when he talks. It helps him to get understood. Im still learning all the signs he is doing but luckily he can say words and some he tries to tell.

not a picture from today.

Right now I’m currently sitting on the sofa with E, and we cuddle up while watching Bing. In GERMAN! That’s crazy! He watches Bing in different languages. Same with Daniel Tiger and PeaPea. I honestly don’t know why.

Today is supposed to be a deep cleaning day, but right now I’d rather sit and cuddle up with my son. For deep cleaning, I can do later.

What are you doing today?

I will also continue to work on the posts that is coming up with time.  Stay tuned 😉

Stalker, meetings, and leftover pizza

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Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing good! I’m currently in bed for the night, but I wanted to pop in here and say hello!

Today has been pretty hectic due to meetings at hospital, monthly grocery shopping within a time limit which was very stressful, repack food before putting in freeze box,  study etc. it has been crazy today so now I’m finally in bed.

Today’s quick dinner while study; left over pizza. Yesh not healthy but it was something over from last night when M and son ate pizza (I always take chicken salad). *snapchat & filter*

Every class we get homework todo til next class and with my history of math etc, I struggle really hard.

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Confession time; I am dead scared of going in school now and alone in town. Why? Because I have a massive stalker who goes to same school as me.

Back story; I’ve met this man three times. Once at a busstop, once in school and now the third time in town when I was in town with my bestfriend. He snook up behind me and said “Hi Emma!” and I always answer when people talk to me so I said Hi back. After that, it went down hill. E even tried to help me get away from this man and after a while which felt like years he left so we could walk away. I was crying, very uncomfortable,  scared etc. This man has said he was COMING home to me, tried to kiss me, hug me, he touched me etc. More happened but this whole situation trigger me even when thinking of it (I’m shaking rn).

So my school situation right now is that my teacher know (I texted him the same night it happened, he called and we spoke), the boss over the principal knows and has spoken with all teachers so they all are keeping eyes on me. Which feels very wrong to be honest but I really appreciate it. Yet I am dead scared of going to school  I even have classmates who ends the classes early to walk with me to the busstop. that’s crazy!

Long story short; I have school five days a week and I really don’t wanna go but still go.

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I hope you all have an amazing day and remember this; you are fantastic and amazing. Never let anyone else tell you something else. Always.. always be true to yourself.

Christmas is coming

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The Christmas tree is finally up… three days before Christmas. Late I know but I haven’t really felt to decorate for Christmas this year.

My tree isn’t black. It’s green but I kinda like the idea to have a black tree and be unique.

Anyway! How are you all? I am good actually! Tired but good! Currently watching YouTube and eating ice cream 👏🏻

Gonna start write a list of what to buy for Christmas dinner tomorrow. Grocery shopping list. We’ll, I don’t eat many different things on Christmas and I highly doubt E do it as well but hey, we will try different things and see if he likes it or not. E is autistic and very selective when it comes to food so trying to challenge him to try new things is actually good.

normally I eat Christmas ham, meatballs, sausage, potatoes and beetssalad. That’s pretty much it. OH and saffron cake. My husband eats fish so we will probably have that on our Christmas buffet this year.

What do you have for your Christmas dinner?

Focaccia with mozzarella and chicken | Honest Review.

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Icelatte Caramel and a Focaccia with mozzarella and chicken.

My best friend loves this Focaccia (foccafocca as I call it) and always order it when we hang out at the Café.  I try it, just a few bites and its alright. Today I ordered myself for the first time and ohmygod. I couldn’t eat the whole thing!

After few bites I had to throw it away. I’m sorry but you know the feeling “it grows in your mouth” if you either had too much of one thing or if something doesn’t taste good. Yup that’s what I got.

It’s very rich on flavors. The green pesto and the mozzarella is way to much. The bread with the green pesto taste likes garlic bread – yum. Except it’s too much on this “sandwich”. I want to like it but I can’t.

The ice latte tho 🤌🏻 chefs kiss. Unfortunately I discovered that my mug (the purple) is broken inside so icelatte were between the cup and it’s “shell”. So I had to throw that one away as well. It was my 2nd purple cup I had to throw away 😔

The ice latte is my to go to drink at this Cafe either extra caramel sauce. Yum!

Look how much it has grown since may! Happy mother!

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My son came home one day from school and had a plant with him! how fun! it turned out that he had planted seeds in a bucket and it has grown. May 31rst he brought it back home and a few days ago we saw it has started to grown tomatoes!

Oh how fun and iam full of joy! this is E’s first plant ever and it’s growing! I can’t wait to share updates with you how much it has grown!

three tiny tomatoes on this picture but I think we counted to 8 tomatoes in total so far! Hopefully more will grow 🥰

How exciting! I have tried to grow paprika etc but it didn’t work. they all died. Don’t know why thought but maybe I should try it again? 🤔

Do you have any ideas on what to grow inside during fall / winter to put out on the balcony during the spring / summer? it would be fun to have our little garden on the balcony 🥰🥰