Meat patties with onions!

Now while Gunilla has been in Kenya, we’ve had the pleasure of visiting with Håkan a little extra. On Sunday (25/10), Håkan came to our house together with Bella and Jan G. We ate meat patties with onions and mushrooms, and enjoyed being together, in front of the fire place. Håkan and Dan, who were in a their best teasing mood, kept stoking the fire in the fire place, and said, “We’ll have to put another log on the fire”, while the rest of us were sweating and cried, “Stop stoking the fire!” (especially us ladies over 50), but they just laughed and added another log.

On Thursday evening (29/10), we drove to Josefina in Trollhättan, for a belated birthday celebration, and ate a wonderful dinner together. We drank coffee and ate newly baked cookies, and read aloud an article from the local newspaper about a gospel concert which the churches in Trollhättan had had together, and for which Josefina sang a solo. Then Josefina and Pappa Håkan had one of those real “music-chat-and-listening-moments”, which only music people can have.

On Saturday, I drove over and picked up Håkan from the short-term care facility to eat lunch at home with us again. We had garlic marinated chicken, and Håkan ate drumsticks with his hands for the first time since the fire. “There you go, Gunilla! If you’d been home, you could have had a garlic kiss from Håkan!” When it was time for coffee, Håkan had a visit from Harry and Gun-Britt Andersson from The Word of Life in Uppsala. It was a time for an emotional reunion, conversation and deep prayer fellowship. Before they started on their return trip to Uppsala, Dan took them by the house.

At the keyboard in gratitude
Sister-in-law Lotta and brother-in-law Dan