8 hours sleep (almost)

24 Jan 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Oh my gosh you guys! Alva slept through this night and only woke up ONCE! I had to document my smile to remember this milestone. Or to remember it tonight if she wakes up every hour like usual ^^ We changed nap and bed time routines a couple a days ago and I really hope […]

Early bird pleasures

21 Jan 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

This night I woke up what I thought was around 2-3 am and felt unusually rested. Alva was still sleeping and I wondered how much time I had before she would wake up again, she’s almost always synchronized to wake up when I go back to sleep. Then I looked at my phone and realized […]

Clumsy morning

26 Aug 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

This morning I somehow broke my brand new mouse, spilled coffee on the ironing table, burned a blouse I was ironing on that same table and dropped (!) the iron itself! What the f I say?! I must have slept 3 hours all together in between Alva’s waking ups. I’m so tired. But how rough […]

Mama needs sleep

21 May 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

With a newborn in the house our organization is somewhat upside down. Since I’m breastfeeding Alva, I’m completely “stuck” when she is eating and I can’t do anything else obviously. So school drop off, dinner, night time story, all those kind of things are for me right now a big maybe when it comes to […]

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I'm Åsa, a Swedish girl born in -79, who ended up in the south of France. This is the place where a share my ideas on sewing for the whole family, carpentry, decoration, photography, DIYing, gardening, french thrifting and so on. I like to paint and scrapbook too. I'm the mama in our blended family to my son Viggo (7), my bonus son Gaétan (8) and our daughter Alva (2). I met the man of my dreams and we decided to start over together and share this ordinarily extraordinary thing that is called life. Hope you'll enjoy the read!