Hyvää Ystävänpäivää! Happy Valentines' Day!

Home alone... almost.

It has been over a week now since I last used my crutches. It doesn't mean it wouldn't hurt, but I do not need them to be able to walk, and we have chairs all over downstairs, so that I can sit down when I can't walk or stand anymore.

My appetite is back as well. I've eaten real food twice already this week, and breakfast almost every morning. That's something worth mentioning, normally I'm not hungry in the morning and I'm used to eat first when the kids come from school.

The sun is shining today and I'd love to go outside for awhile. Maybe I'll start to tidy up our terrace, it's odd how in the winter things just multiply themselves when there's no-one to move them to the correct place. Just the same as the clothes seem to diminish in size during the winter.

Looking forward to the summer, just can't wait to be at our summer cottage. There we can swim and enjoy the warm days outside. Some work is also on our schedule, the forest needs some attention as well. Well, alot of work has to be done here aswell. But if I could choose, I'd be at the cottage the whole time we have company from our neighbours. Unless we can block the view in some way. Soon the gardening programs are to be shown on tv, maybe we'll receive some kind of inspiration how to be able to do this.

Sunday is Valentines' Day. I sent a message to my wife on Facebook <3
I have been blessed to have such a wonderful and loving spouse. We have been married for about five years now, and our love just grows stronger and deeper day by day. And we truly have been through some tough times as well as the good times.

We were introduced through a mutual friend, and our first date was something you wouldn't forget easily. It was clear from the beginning that we are meant for each other. Would you belive it, we got married only 9 months after our first date!

In Finland, we don't celebrate Valentines' Day the same way it's celebrated in the States. Here we call it Ystävänpäivä (Friends' Day) and send cards and salutations to friends.

So Hyvää Ystävänpäivää! Happy Valentines' Day!