Blog about work and babies

Good evening! What a relaxing weekend we've had: lots of playing outside with the kids (ok, just with the older one so far) and enjoying the last sunny days of summer so far. Let's hope next week and especially next weekend will still be nice so we can be outside as we have our baby's christening party on saturday. He'll finally have officially a name then! :) I also made it to the big supermarket yesterday with my toddler and got everything for the party. Baby stayed home with his daddy - first time for an hour and a half. So much easier to go get stuff with one child only. Next week will be spent cleaning, planning the party and preparing & baking everything. Lot of work but it'll be fun :) I'm gonna bake two cakes since some of our guests will need a gluten-free food so that'll be double for everything. I'm making this blueberry cake for those who have a gluten-free diet - sorry, this recipe is only in Finnish. Freely translated it means ...

Our monday started off okay in the countryside - we woke up 1 hour earlier than normal and it took about 1 hour altogether to go to the city; get L to day-care and myself to work. Not too bad, and besides I got to work earlier than usual - I can go home soon :) I only work 80% of my regular work hours so that's why I get to leave earlier. And I have to say I didn't sleep too well last night because I was a little worried how this morning would go. Why I always have to worry? Today's a baking day - Luka turns 2 tomorrow! Can't believe it's already been 2 years that we brought him home from the hospital (as I gave birth to him, that is). So we're baking a cake and according to mister L, it needs to be chocolate. That's fine with me, I love chocolate :) Tomorrow, we're just celebrating the 3 of us. We'll have a proper birthday party for him later this spring with all the relatives but that wont be until we can get back to our apartment. That's whe...