What to do, what to do???

Now this is a first. 6 more days till election day and I still have no idea what party to vote for. Even considering to cast a blank vote. Empty. Yep, maybe not voting for any of the parties.
Can hardly believe I´m even considering this, let alone writing about it.

I´ve always said one should use his/her vote. Have a say. Be responsible. Honor the fact that you have to right to vote and the chance to make a change.

I feel like I´m somewhat betraying my own values if I don´t vote for on of the parties running for government. BUT....I also feel betrayed.

I feel betrayed by the party that I voted for last time and which screwed up. Badly! I feel betrayed by all other parties which keep saying they´ll fix things, without having a clue as how to. I feel betrayed by my bank, which gambled with my money and lost all my savings, and I feel like and a**hole for trusting all these people with my future.

Oh how I wish we will soon again hear my People say: "Thetta reddast" (it´ll be o.k.). But then again, that is somewhat was got us into this mess!

Summertime and the living is easy

Well not quite yet, but hopefully soon it will be summertime and living will be easy. I will have the entire month of half of May, and the entire months of June and July + half August off. Can I tell you how much I look forward to just hanging out, oh yeah and shuffeling the kids from soccer camp to soccer camp? This has been one hell of a winter and I can not wait for it to be over. I just wish that the summers here were real summers, with the sun burning so hot through my body that it would keep me warm for a few of the early winter months.

I have a mini solution for that problem though. This year, the solution is called BARCELONA. Hubby, me and almost 100 000 other people singing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-ACkYmdc4 live at Nou stadium. Five romantic nights in this gorgeous city with NO kids, just us, the sun, some tapas and lots of Sangria :)

Can´t wait!

Know what it feels like to wake up on a Sunday morning in your 10 year old bed, next to your hubby of 12 years with a bunch of kids between you? Knowing that once you get out of bed you will make breakfast, then lunch, then hubby will walk the dog, you´ll take the kids to visit grandma and at the end of the day you´ll contemplate for a very short time what to have for dinner, before deciding on pizza? Probably even with the same toppings as last time, and the time before that. Knowing that this is pretty much the track of your life? Marked by some unwritten rules about the convienience of routine and the "easy way out".

Every week, sometimes every day and lately almost every hour I vow to myself to break out of habit. "Just do it" is a phrase I would use a lot, until I came across this article called "Why didn´t Nike just do it?" and I thought maybe it isn´t so easy after all.

But "not so easy" does not mean "not doable", right? And so I continue to seek inspiration. Try to convince myself that travelling around the world with 5 kids is a real option. Not an easy task I can tell you. First I was amazed and inspired by http://www.soultravelers3.com/ but had to admit that while these people are way too cool, kind and fun to follow, they aren´t exactly in the "same boat" as we are since they only have 1 daughter. But then they told me about http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/ a family with 8 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) children and a grandpa travelling the world and now I seriously have an itch....