just a taste...
- terrific 2 days in stockholm & amazing few days at the summer house
- all caught up on blog/pictures (was)
- borjesson's TREMENDOUS generosity
- walk in the swedish countryside
- watching kids enjoy the outdoors
- swedish fika!
- eating outside
- seeing/hearing eli laugh so much with alex
- knowing much much nick enjoys getting to chop wood
- eating fruit straight from the vine
- trainride from stockholm to kumla
- nature sounds so ideal it could be recorded for a sound machine
- chance to wash clothes
- icecream & strawberries
- peaceful children (otherwise traveling might be terrible)
- kindness after kindness from the borjesson's
- remembered to mail the postcard before leaving sweden
- sweet reunions
- not even a moment of hesitation when she saw yaya and grandaddy
- colorful meal
- soft triangle bread + cream cheese + slice of cheese + salted meat
- when someone asks me a good question
- speaking Truth and Life into a friend's heart
- pizza picnic on the sidewalk
- TIME with yaya and grandaddy
- being with sam & christy
- scotland + rend collective + rain = just the right run
- climbing to arthur's seat with nick, eli and caroline
- late night walk with nick
- falling asleep quickly
- things are going so well for ethan chandra
- how much nick laughs when sam's around
- news of jacob sivak's birth
- a friend who knows how much i love pens & shares a treasure with me
- emma & christy's chess game
- long walk with christy
- church bells
- watching world cup games
- eli's awesome bunny footie pjs
- yaya's commitment to "if there's a will, there's a way"
- krispy kreme doughnuts
- clever signage
- trading cards on the train
- beautiful countryside
- more than ideal place to stay
