It's been quite a while since I was blogging last, but there's quite a good reason for that. Not that there hasn't been happening anything around here, the truth is: there's been happinging so much that there was no time to sit down and put it in here.
I'm happy and thankful when I have a quick look in here and see that you still come back and check on our site and blogg even though there hasn't been much going on lately. I'll try to make it up to you and update things as soon as I've time to do so.
Well, the reason I haven't been blogging is we finally moved to a new house in town. We've been waiting for that to happen for quite some time (few years to be precise) as it wasn't just any house but Ingólfur's birthplace. His dad built the house 1963 and has been living there since. About 7 years ago he applied for a senior citizen appartment here in town and was put on the waiting list. And then nothing happened, he waited, kept asking, nothing happened, waited more, asked again, still nothing. Until this spring when he got to know that a flat in an appartment building for seniors would be available soon (not the place where he's been on the waiting list!) and after a good talk to Ingólfur's sister, he decided to go for it.
We couldn't believe that was finally happening, but were really happy about the trust we got to make his place ours. There's a big garden around the house, which suits me and my roses just fine. They of course came along and so did a lot of other plants as the new owners of our old place have no interest in having a garden and are just going to make a parking space out of it sometime. They would've thrown everything away.
In May we started to measure the rooms in the house and tried to decide what we'd have to do to make it ours. By then Ingólfur had already told the buyers they could get our flat on the 15th of June, which was quite bold of him, knowing we hadn't done a single hammerstroke yet. But where there's a will there's a way, isn't it?
I spent hours on the IKEA homepage, trying to design a kitchen and find things suiting us for the new place. We ordered new flooring and paint for the walls. In middle of May we went south to do some shopping, including buying/ordering the kitchen. When at the warehouse we had to change which fronts we would take as the ones chosen weren't as suitable as we thought. It was good that I already had done some homework as the salesmanager just opened my drawing and we could keep on working in there. Unfortunately we never saw the final drawing as the second screen, where we were supposed to see what he was doing, didn't work. Well, it was quite some challenge to put up the kitchen with no final pic... We managed anyway. Reminded me a bit of these Wasgii jigsaws where you have some hints, but don't know what the final pic looks like. We were told there would be some waiting time to get everything for the kitchen, but most things were storing and would be sent soon (good to have a garage to store things...)
Soon after our trip we had a meeting with Ingólfur's family to clear out the stuff his dad had left in the house and the siblings were supposed to split up. Everybody was in good mood and things went fast and smooth. Stuff nobody wanted was given to a local charitysale. 
So now there we are close to the end of May, 23 days before we have to move out of our old flat and nothing done yet. Well, in fact some things done, the flooring and the paint already arrived and the kitchen was hopefully on it's way, but in fact there was a huge amount of work left to do, which we couldn't have done without the help of family and friends. I'll put that in the blogg later in the right timeline, so you can hopefully read about the ups and downs there. 
To make a long story short: managed to move out in time!
Stay tuned ;)