Back to Sweden

This is the beginnning of a new journey. Scary adn exciting, pleasing and anxieity provoking at the same time. Today is 1/28/19 and tomorrow we move from Skanor to Stockholm. It ahs b een a rough jet-lag and very hectic packing up for the move. Kerswtin is doing the decision making and she literally has not been able to sleep with jet-lag and anxietyover our movve,, what furniture to bring from Skanor (formeerly in Chciago) and how to pack everything. I think we will come back in 2 weeks to get more stuff but wthe movers will come tomorrow for the big itemsw.

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