Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day everyone!! Hope you have enjoyed your day as much as I have enjoyed mine.

After 18 years of marriage I can safely say that I know my husband pretty well!!So I know that if I want to have a romantic Valentines day, well then I have to organise it!! So that is exactly what I did. (and I must say I really enjoyed organising it all!)

The day started with breakfast in bed. I was up early and made Kristian coffee, cornflakes and toast....I had bought some chocolates and a special kind of gift/card for him.


I woke a very surprised Kristian. (He is going to kill me for putting this picture on the web! He warned me as soon as I took the picture that it wasnt to go on the web.....ooops... haha) But I think he really enjoyed his breakfast in bed.

While he relaxed, I went and got Leah from her sleep over and did a quick bit of food shopping to stock up for next week.

When I came home I found a very happy Krisitan. He was thrilled with his gift/card. Let me explain....His card, when you opened it, had 8 pages in it. Each page could be pulled out and used like a gift card....there was an idea on each card for a date.

Here are the 8 different dates, maybe someone out in cyberspace can use these too 1) A cosy night at home (you pick the film and I make the treats), 2) A romantic dinner (I cook the dinner and you choose the dessert)3) A trip to the movies (We hold hands and eat popcorn) 4) A neck and back massage (total relaxation), 5) A day were you do exactly what you want (but only together with me) 6) A fun night on the town (you pick the time and place and I pay) 7) Breakfast in bed (with everything you wish for) 8) Make up a date yourself....

So the idea is that once a month we use one of these. Kristian is going to mix them up, hold them face down and then I get to pick one...and we do whatever it says we should. Sounds like fun to me!!

Late morning we headed into Copenhagen just to pick up a part for Andrews computer. I went along for ride. Gave us plently of time to chat on the drive in and out.

I had cleaned the house yesterday, so when we came back I suddenly had a whole afternoon free to do whatever I wanted. So I got out the paints. I got inspired by a picture that Kristians sister Signe had taken and so I played around with colours.

Then it was time to get ready for our date. I had told Kristian that he needed to be ready for 5.15pm. I had booked a table up in a lovely wee cafe/restaurant in our town and then planned to take Kristian to the movies afterwards.

(I made some food for the kids and they were settling in to watch some films while we were gone.)

We had a wonderful meal at the cafe and it was really cosy.

Afterwards we had ½ hour to put in before the movie started, so we decided to walk through our wee town and take some pictures. We had such a laugh! We were like a couple of big kids!!!

So have a look at our wee town. Below is a shop that has been very important to us through the years...the toy shop!! (been a while since I´ve been in there!)

Then we have the Danish bank.....you will notice the logo is the same as the Northern bank and the Northern bank is decorated just like the Danish bank! I went into the Northern bank when I was home to tell them that if they came to the bank in my town in Denmark that they wouldnt know the difference. (I think they thought I was a bit crazy!! haha)

Us two fooling around! (You know we talked tonight about not wanting to be this boring old married couple that were in a rut - we wanted to have fun - so we did!! We might have acted differently if there had been people around town, as it was, we were the only two nutters out!! probably because it was sooooo cold. Everyone else was inside their wee houses with their candles lit!)

Can you spot me in the picture below??? (Look carefully!)

After fooling around till we were frozen, we headed over to the movies.

The film was soooo good. It was a new Danish film called Escaped. It was about a Danish journalist who gets kidnapped in Afghanistan. The terrorists want the west out of their country. The Danish government doesnt really respond to their wishes at first, so they decide to give them 10 days and for each day that goes by without them responding, they will cut off one of the journalist fingers. (gross I know!)

Well they get a young boy of about 17 to cut off her first finger. He doesnt really want to do it, but is forced. Anyway, he has to keep an eye on her and he decides to help her escape, but tells her she must never say it was him. They make it look like she attacked him and got away. She goes back to Denmark and keeps her promise to him. She tells no-one that he helped her escape.

Then the young mans uncle wants him to do more crimes and he decides to run away. His opportunity comes and he decides to go to Denmark.(off course lots of exciting things happen inbetween all this!) He finds the journalist and she tries to help him but this causes problems as he is seen as a terrorist. Wow, it was a really good film, just showed that things are not black and white.

Wow feels like I have written a book - sorry about the long post. But it really has been a great day. Good night all!!