20 days to go....

Ooooh boy...I am abit stressy now, I can just feel it...time flies and soon we will be in Kenya, but why is it that everytime there is a trip ahead, you start doing all kind of things in the "last minute"?? :D Well, we have been doing now things in good time too but it feels that time will not be enough for everything to be ready before the trip...and fixing all this...oh boy...the money that you need there, it's just tooo much...:O You could think that as long as you have the tickets, we're good to go...but it's not that simple...need to check travel insurances, vaccinations, medication, passports, visa etc. etc. and I am telling you...they surely cost like another ticket :D

Having many kids is a surely a blessing, but when it comes to costs...ooh la laa!...I mean, why can't they just give vaccinations for kids cheaply or for free? ;)...all they recommended today, it would totally cost me like 5000 SEK for Simon, Isabella and Mumbi....are you freaking kidding me? :P that is way too much! Paid Simons and Isabellas Hepatitus A+B vaccination today...1000SEK PUM just like that...Isabellas and Mumbis finnish passports...2000SEK PUM just like that....the passport thingy is even so annoying that all the Finns that live here have to apply for the new passport from the Finnish embassy and there it costs 1000 SEK each when in Finland you can get it for 55 Eur each...it's a rip off here for sure!

Anyway, what more is there to come now...I have gotten the travel insurance, the flight meals for kids and the babycot for Mumbi is fixed in Kenya Airways (very nice service there btw), passports are fixed, visa is fixed, luggage fixed...those are the biggest things I think..now it's just small small fixing but time is flyyyyiiiing.

I keep on thinking already how things are in Kenya when we get there...how it will be hot there, how we will see the stars and the moon so brightly at night, how we will here the rooster waking us up in the mornings...take the tea and some simple breakfast, how we will just listen to their language everywhere and then we will also here..."mzungu" again in many places :D Oooh....I can't wait! I want to pray that our trip will be blessed and God and his angels will be with us all through the way! :)

20 days to go....counting down the days :)....

9 years ago when I still looked hot :D

Some pictures and videos....

Yep, I don't have so much more now to say so I just post some pictures and videos here :)

Halloween-face made by me :)

Princess Isabella :)

Rasta-Mumbi :D

Mumbis lovely foot ;)

Isabella and Sarah :)

Isabella with her dear Sara today (6.11.12) here in Stockholm. :)

Mumbi playing with her face expressions ;)

Sisters ;)

Yeeeee! :)

Obama vs. Romney...that is the game today....

Well, I am not so interested in politics but this US Presidential elections are taking place in basically all the tv-channels in the world at the moment I think....that is another thing that shows how "powerful" U.S. is in this world...it's like everyone in the world should follow what happens there...but do they follow our presidential elections ever? :) I don't think so. I just don't understand why this is sooo huge thing or is it because the world is ran by the United States somehow? Economy comes from there..if they have it bad, it affects all of us? We can't live with them but we can't live without them? :D

I'm not being racist in anyway here but I am just astonished about the impact that this election has on Swedish channels even...live show showing who will win and the same happened 4 years ago...live follow up on the elections...it would be funny to see if the Finnish presidential or the Kenyan presidential election or any other countries election is followed with the same kind of enthusiasm by everyone in the world? :D or specially America? ;)

Well, any hows...I hope Obama will continue still...even though I haven't followed their campaigns at all...but I suppose he is good and he should get a chance to continue for another 4 years :) period. heh

As a country, U.S. would be really interesting and amazing to visit...and God willing I will do so one of these fine days :) Thank you.

Good night :)

My prayers are being answered in so many ways...

I really have to thank the Lord above, because He has answered my prayers lately in so many ways...small things that I have asked for have happened even right at that moment...I can give one example..I prayed that we will have a blessed weekend and we will have food and money even if we didn't have at that moment (this was last weekend) and what happens...Phares gets some small note that the insurance company has paid back some of the insurance money (like 700kr) so all I had to do is to go and get it from a kiosk and go and buy us some food....and our weekend was blessed...:) Another time I was praying that Phares would not  stay in a pub for a long time and that God would purify his blood from all toxic if he had at that moment...I go to the shop with kids and I see him and he is ok at that moment...and he goes home while I am in the shop...well, when I came home..I find him so sick...stomach issues and he goes to sleep saying that he can't even eat or anything that he just fell sick suddenly, even vomiting ..silently I thought that oops, I asked God to purify his blood at that moment and this is the way he did it? ;) God has humor ;)

Now lately I have been praying for our trip to Kenya..that it would really happen for all of us and that for some way we would manage to get the tickets as soon as possible or that the ticket prices for 6th of December would go down so that we would be able to buy tickets somehow...I have even written "Tickets to Kenya" in my wall calendar in today's box....and I have prayed and then I have let it go...well, today (Friday 3rd) I woke up somehow smiling, thinking of the calendar and the marking there....I had checked the ticket prices the night before and was surprised to find that they have actually gone down for those days that we have been planning to go...(6.12.12-16.1.13)...I even told Phares about it and he was surprised too (I thought that, hmmm...I have prayed for this...maybe this is an answer that we will get the tickets as planned)...so I trusted that ok, whatever happens, it is God's will. ....Phare came home early from work and said that ok, we book the tickets for you guys (meaning me, my mum and the kids) and that he will book his own later if he can travel...he had gotten some money and was willing to pay the tickets with it...but there was some money missing...so we planned with mum...she will put her part from all her savings now and amazingly it came to almost exactly the amount of money that we needed...even a little bit more :)...
And now we have the tickets booked...I have to tell though that the devil also has his hands on everything, because when I was booking the planned dates, the prices were shown as we had seen earlier and I continued booking, but when I had put all our names and filled other info, suddenly there was a problem saying that the flights are fully booked with that price or something...I tried several times, coz the price was in the list still...or the cheapest flight but it just didn't go through...so I had to start checking for the 5th of December and there I found the cheaper ones again...so...I have it booked now and ready to be paid :D The payment will happen today (Saturday, since now the time is 00:43)...:D Praise the Lord for all the help that you have given me and my family! :)