Blogg Vacation?

Yes, I did not have to stop blogging even though I went on a summer vacation! This is my second week in my summer vacation and it has been pretty good an relaxing. Last week I went to grandpa Joi's summer house and spent two days there with the kids and my friend Rún and her two daughters. No husbands came along, it was just us two and our kids. We had a wonderful time. Then we went home on a Friday and had a good weekend at home with Joi. This week has been pretty quiet.

It is funny, but the kids seem to love rules and regulation! Maybe it is not strange, but during our summer vacation our rules have lessened and we have relaxed a bit on all the do's and don'ts. What does that do to our kids? THEY GO MAD! They have been really hard to handle some days and some times I have wished that I was back to work! Gosh.... I must be a terrible mom. I should enjoy being with my kids... of course I do.... but sometimes I am about to loose my mind. Maybe it is because I am alone with the kids all the time. Joi is at work and Iam at home with the kids. Of course I do things with them. We go out to the playground in the morning to play outside and then in the afternoon we try and visit some friends that are also on vacation.

We are going to Spain in 4 days. Yes. Then Joi will have a 2 week vacation and we will relax together, the whole family. I will enjoy that. I hope that my sun allergy will not be too bad. I have been eating all kinds of vitamins before going and I have also allergy medicine to eat while I am there.

I went to Laugar Spa last Saturday and got waxed all over... (NO DETAILS). :) The bad thing about it, is that I got burned on my eyebrows, more on the left side. It was really painful. I wrote them an email on the following Monday and they are going to refund me the wax and coloring on the eyebrows and I also get to go to their Spa with a guest with me - when I come back from Spain. I think that was a really good service. Joi and I are planning to go there together after we come back from Spain, go to the Laugar gym and work out together, then have a couples massage and finally go to the Spa. It will be soooo nice.


This will be enough for now. I will be writing again at the end of this week to tell you my BIG SECRET. It should be announced before I go to Spain :) Anyone curious??? Bye, bye, gsj

Rise and Shine at 05.45 am

Yep, I got up at 5.45 am this morning to go to the gym. I did one hour of fat burning/cardio and I burned a whole lot of calories. Then I went home, woke up the teenager to go to work, did my stretches, abs, took a shower, had my HerbaLife shake, and guess what??? Now it is 8 am and everyone is still asleep!!! Joi had to work until 3 am so he gets to sleep in this morning and the little kids, who always wake up at 7am are still asleep. It is amazing. Typical that when I get up early that they decide to sleep in :) I am sure that if I would crawl into bed with Joi now they would wake up and ask for mommy´s attention. So I decided to enjoy my private time and do a little browsing on the internet.

Tonight I am going to the movies with my good old girlfriends, Iris, Petra, Baddý and myself. I am hoping that the other three that are missing will also come along. We are going to go out to eat first, vegatarian food and then we will see "Sex and the City". It will be my second time seeing that movie, but I´ll go again for the good company I will be in and the movie is fun to watch. Also, a night off from the household - of course I will enjoy that. I need my private time also :) Well, I am going to do a little browsing. Cheers, GUDRUN

Summer Vacation

In less then one hour I will start my summer vacation. YEAH. It will last for four weeks, two weeks at home with the kids, and two weeks in Alicante, Spain. I have so much planned for the vacation that I am starting to think I will be tired when I come back to work hehe. I am going to visit some friends that I have neglected, play with the kids, go swimming with the kids, go cycling with the kids, go to the movies with my girlfriends, go to the summerhouse (hopefully), teach Asdis how to ride her bike without the support-wheels, and much more.

The kids, especially Asdis Hjalmros, are waiting for the holiday. Asdis has been counting down the days and she thinks that she is going to Spain as soon as the summer vacation starts. I have been trying to explain to her that we won't go until August 2nd. I will probably end up printing out a calendar for her where she can cross out the days and count down.

We have the fifth family member living with us for a few weeks now. Axel Solvi, Joi's son (18 years old) moved in last night. He will be staying with us until September 1st. He will be sharing a room with little Johannes Kristbjorn and hopefully all of us living together will go well. He is a working man and a grown up and hopefully we will not have any complications or fights. I am doing my best to be optimistic about this and I am sure this will be ok. He is very positive about this and at least it is starting out good. For me it means more laundry, more cooking and more cleaning. Of course he will help out with the kids and the kids really love him. They were so excited last night to have him sleep at home. We put an extra bed in Johannes's room and Johannes was so excited to have big brother sleep with him. Today, when we woke up at 06.30 am we hear that Johannes had woken up. His first words of the day were: Já (yes). I guess he was sitting up in his bed, looking at his big brother sleeping, afraid to say anything like he usually does in the morning... and all he could come up with was Já :) Joi and I were in the bedroom awake and listening. We thought it was soooo cute.

Hopefully we will have good times ahead of us, where we will get to be a BIGGER HAPPIER FAMILY. The little children need to get to know their older brother and he needs to get to know them better. Love, Love, Love as I wrote in my last blog.

A picture of our children and grandpa Krissi last Christmas:

Love Blog

I got to work before 8 am today and like usually I start my work day by reading a little bit on the internet. The pages I visit daily are my sisters blogs. It is strange, but I felt such strong love for them after reading their blogs. I read my older sisters blog and saw that she got three comments on her blog yesterday, one from mom, one from me, and one from my younger sister. I felt that the four of us make a strong family and that nothing can take away our love. We stand strong together through thick and thin and yes, believe me, there have been hard times! It just seems that our love for each other is so strong that nothing can break it.

Three sisters: Ásdís, Guðrún, and Thelma (March 10, 2007)

It feels good to love your family like that. Of course I share the same feeling towards my husband and my children. But it is a different kind of love. I have been with my sisters and my mom since my life started and they know me pretty well. Then there is my husband and my children, whom I have spent most of my time with for the past 7 years. They know me better than anyone, who I am today. Also, the love for your children is unconditional. You love them no matter what they do or what they say. I guess I am big on love today. I love loving and I love my family, my parents, my sisters, my husband and my children. There are so many people around me that I love and I am loved back. I simply love it :)

Love: Jóhannes Albert, Ásdís Hjálmrós, Guðrún Sigríður, and Jóhannes Kristbjörn

Picture taken March 10th 2007 when Johannes Kr. was babtized and on Asdis 3rd birthday.

Love, Gunna Sigga

Good, better, best...

I am feeling better and better with every day that I go to the gym and work out and make sure that my diet is good. It is so crazy to let go of yourself like this and eat like a pig and not exercise. But why do I let this happen again and again and again? I tend to loose weight and exercise for a few months and look really good and feel so good about myself. Have lots of energy for my kids, husband and work. Then one day I stop. I start allowing myself to eat more, eat sweets more often and bread and like a bang.... I have gained maybe 10 kg.

I usually say that I am like a Jo Jo. Don´t know if that word gets through to my English speaking friends. Jo Jo is a toy that goes up and down on a string. I have no clue what it is called in English. So I just write it the way we say it in Icelandic hehehe. Maybe Yo Yo! - Yes.... my weight goes up and down like a Yo Yo on a string :) It is about time to stop this. I want to have a flat line.... no change in my weight for a few years. I have stopped having kids and that is not an excuse now. So hopefully I will be successful now.

This past weekend was a wonderful family weekend. We spent Saturday at home with the kids and cleaned the apartment. We have not cleaned it for many weeks now. We always postpone it because the weather has been so good and then we have been traveling. This weekend it rained, so I said to Joi: "you know what we have to do now"? So it was cleaning day in the rain and the kids "helped out". Sunday we went to my mom´s house and baked and played Yatzy and the kids played outside in the rain with grandpa Hannes. He was working in the yard and it was so much fun for them. I need to post some pictures soon. They got so dirty in the mud and all wet and then Joi squirted water on them to rinse them off. They laughed so hard and loved it. The pictures I took that day were taken with mom´s camera so now I need to get them from her to post them on the kid´s website.

Enough of blogging. Lunch is coming and only 4,5 days until my summer vacation. Smooches to everyone. Love, GSJ

Getting closer...

No, there is no new happy child on its way and there won't be. Just so that will be clear. Joi had a snip snap surgery after Johannes Kristbjorn was born so we will NOT create more beautiful and happy babies together. If I will get pregnant, then Joi needs to start worrying hehehe.

My little sister is closer to the guess this time. I can not write more because it is still a secret. I will write more when I can. I promise. I guess you can stop guessing now.

Hey, I am curious about who is reading my blog living in New Zealand. Please come forward you who are reading my blog in New Zealand. Now I am curious. Then to all the others. Please comment at least once so I can see who is reading my little writings... More later... GSJ

NERVOUS!

Today I am soooo nervous. It is regarding my big news that I am still not telling you about. I have not gotten many guesses, just one from my beloved little sister. She thinks I am having a sex operation :) Not a very likely guess :) I will probably tell you more in a few days. Just wanted to make you more curious and let you know that I am having a bad stomach and have shaky fingers. I am so nervous and stressed. Yoga would help me a lot now :) Spinning will maybe do it for me tonight.

Yes, about that. My husband called me at work yesterday and asked me if I would start working out if he would buy me a membership in Lifestyle fitness center (in Keflavik). I said: YES, of course. Then he said: "That is good, because I already bought it" :) So now I have started to go to the gym again, after a few months away. So be aware, the fatso is fading away..... Love, GSJ

Happy Children

Yes, that is what my children are. They are happy campers, like we say. Now we are going camping again this weekend and the children love it. Our first camping trip, last weekend, was successful even though it was a bit cold during the nights. The weather forecast for this weekend is much better and we plan to go to the hottest place in Iceland this weekend, Husafell. Very nice camping site.

This week has been without any big events (that I can blog about). Joi has been sick, coughing so much that I had to ask him to sleep in the living room. I had to get some rest before work. There is a BIG secret going in our lives now and I can not tell about it yet. But when the news are ready to come out, I will blog about it. I promise.

Am I making ya'll curious. You can of course leave comments on this blog and ask what the big secret is. I love to tease people like this :) So now guess, guess, guess. Of course I have to post a picture with this blog. This is a picture from last weekend when we went camping.
Love, GSJ

Jói and his mom at our tent: