Tuesday!

Another beautyful tuesday! And now little Sebastian is 1 year! People
said to us that "time will fly by" and I thaught "we´ll see", and wow
I did´nt! It passed so fast that I did´nt see it...
And as you can see in the photo; there is no wrong way to eat cake on
a birthday in the Lundmark-home. You can see Mattias´s (how do I write
that proper, I have no idea) mum in the background. She looks both
proud and impressed I think.
Another fun thins that happened that happened this morning with
Sebastian is that we try to teach him words; like lamp, mummy, daddy
and belly. So I pointed to his belly and said "belly". He started
pulling his pyjamas so I opened it so he could se his belly. He looks
at the belly, then at me and then he takes little pieces of cheese
(that is infront of him, we just ate breakfast) and starts putting it
into the hole of the pyjamas! He keeps putting in pieces of cheese in
his PJs and looks at me and Mattias and smiles. Life with kids are
funny and cheesy (in the "putting-it-into-a-pyjamas-way")!

The editing is still on track and I can say that the design that Bernd
and Tim has made is so cool and I hope you all will like it as much as
we do.

I am working out a lot right now even though I am not teaching very
much. Mattias have about 10 hours of classes every week so he is in
great shape, but I need to move. So I go to "Friskis & svettis" which
translates to "healthy & sweaty". It is basically aerobics but more
simple movements and I love it. One of our lindy-students took the
same class as me yesterday and after the class she said something like
this to me: "you must really like this superhard workout, it is almost
like your own military-warm ups". Military?! That is the best
compliment I ever heard of my warm ups!

Lots of love and stay healthy and sweaty!
/H

Blogday is tuesday!

Hello world!
As you might have noticed this little blog only comes to life on
tuesdays. There is a reason for that and it is because all other days
people in Sweden takes siesta all day 24-7. Just like in Barcelona
where we just spent 4 great days at Emi and Pep´s Il Sinera. Okey,
they don´t only dance on tuesdays but they have siesta!

So okey, maybe swedes don´t sleep and eat cheese all week, and we can
´t take siestas because it is too cold here and if we lie on the
ground we freeze into icecubes BUT I only work one day a week right
now. "So you should have plenty of time writing your blog you lazy
swede", you might think, but NO! All day I runa round chasing our
walking/running son and inbetween that I practise and work out and go
north to my beloved Herräng to see my family and cook (sometimes… and
not necessarily good or tasty) food for Mattias who work for the both
of us. He is teaching at both sss, chicago and base 23 so I recommend
going to all three. All the time. 24-7. ;)

And our new dvd is getting closer and closer to ready every day!! It
really is so much fun but HARD work to get it ready. Bernd in Cologne
and Tim Collins in Switzerland (now but in India soon) are so kind and
cool to hel pus. Thank you so much!!

Next big trip is to for Mattias to go to Paris (le fou des swing) and
then Umeå (swingum), with the lovely miss Lizette Rönnqvist. I can not
go because I am having surgery. My feet are a bit broken from all
airsteps (I still love airsteps and do it all the time, but I can not
recommend doing what I did 2009: One years of doing about 20 airtsteps
every day!) and the surgery will fix it all.

Sebastian is walking now and even though we been trying to make him
focus on tap, which he likes, (and which he do really well, bt the he
is clearly still more "tap dogs" than "condos-brothers") he LOVES his
football! This football in the photo has a funny story (I just hope I
am still considered a good mum…): He loves chewing on EVERYTHING. ALL
THE TIME. So all his toys breaks, sooo, I looked in every toystore for
an unbreakable ball. I could not find the right one until I passed a
shoppingwindow with the perfect one! So I went into the pet store and
bought a ball for dogs! Like I wrote; he´s a tap-dog, so the ball fits
him like a glove.

Hugs and love/

H & co

An other day at work...

So this has been a great day!
I have been in contact with 4 different lindy organizers all over the
world and everything is not settled yet, but all I know is this will
be a great year.

Hugs!
/Hanna

The move 11 - 8th sept 2011

The move 11

I am baaaack! Again…

You should never trust me when I write "I am baack". I might just dive
back into my crazy world of travelling with a giant baby, 50 tons of
diapers, performing outfits and Sebastian (hi hi, got ya Mattias).

Seriously the last 2 months have been amazing and great! Mostly
because we have been dancing so much but also offcourse our baby
Sebastian (alos known as Best-ian, because he is the best!) is so
sweet and funny. He spends his days smiling and trying to walk.
Already now he stomps his little feet when he is watching us dance and
he knows how to peck his tiny head. He is more or less fluent in
german, norweigian, danish and dutch because he spent time in those
countries.

We had a great time in Herräng and stayed 3 weeks with my parents and
1 week in private accomondation with Mattias parents. It was fun and
somewhat weird to be in Herräng but not stay in my own house. We wen
to dinner one night at my parents house and I did not know if I should
empty the dishwasher since I am guest, but I am also their daughter…
so I obviously choose not to empty it. Hi hi again.

Herräng was so organized this year and all the meetings where so
funny. I love Mark Kihara and Robert Klingwall and all the crazyness
they make up. It is people like them who are the true spirit of the
camp; great dancers who loves laughing at themselves and also have
warm hearts and fun new ideas that they are not afraid to just try.

This years swingkids and teens where so fun! And many! It is such an
honour to introduce these great children to the world of dancing.

We just came from Cologne (Esther and Bernd are still our number ones
who inspire u sto be better dancers and teachers) and we recorded a
new dvd! It will be a beginner-course for lindy hop and also 6
airsteps, and warm up and spotting, safety, lights, clothes, make up,
cameras, lights, slow motion… gagh! Out of breath! You cant even
imagine how hard we worked for this! All of us! Tim Collins and Malou
and David and Sebastian (and my mum who also was there!) worked and
are working still. And during the 2 days of shooting I smacked
(=landed in airstep with a bang!) like 80 times. My legs said that
they wanted a raise after that.

Now our next thing is getting the dvd edited and then we go to
Barcelona and Pep and Emi´s "Il sinera". Hope to see you there!

Hugs/
Hanna & co

Mattias reports!! - 8 of march

Hi all! Long time since last time. This is a true blog or is it twitter. I call it the show in the show. We are preparing for the lindy hop number and this is the beautiful room we are at with sebastian and lizette. The show has been succesful so far at cabaret lorensberg and we have two more weekends to go after this one. Then it is a weekend workshop in copenhagen. Hope to see you soon! Mattias

Mattias reports - 16th of april

Hi all! The fourth show at cabaret lorensberg is thru with great joy and hapiness. Again it was a good night with no falling from the bar and the taxi costume fit me like a glove. The acrobatics went fine with no necks broken. We will be back on stage the weekend after easter. Have you booked your tickets? All the best, mattias

5th of march - mattias reports!

Hi all! Good practice todaya again. Wonderful lights were set and the first show on friday is gwtting closer. Hanna is beautiful!  mattias

4th of april - mattias reports!

Today was the first day of rehearsel.
It was good and succesful. This is the crew behind the succes,  our dear family and lizette who will take care of sebastian. See you soon!

16th of march - mattias reports

Hi all! Big show yesterday at svenska mässan, göteborg. Enegimässan and foxy productions behind it. I got to tap two number, one in the spirit of singin in the rain and one impro with pianist daniel palm. To finish of. ..disco time!

14th of march - mattias reports!

Hi all. Good practice again. You may think that hanna has a new partner. But sebastian is helping hanna as the fysical trainer. Seriously, don't miss the show at cabaret lorensberg. Check out www.lorensberg.com for tickets. For the upcoming week mattias has a show in göteborg doing tap and both hanna and mattias will coach the national team of sweden in lindy hop during the weekend. Cool! Over and out. M and h

5th of march - mattias reports

Hi again! Herräng is beautiful nightime, february. Also in summertime offcourse!! Best regards - mattias

5th march ~ mattias reports

Hi all!
Bootcamp in herräng. Tap and lindy hop on the schedule
working hard in the room that fills up with bunkbeds. Mattias gets reminded from his first herräng 1991 when it was less people but the same smell. Tomorrow more practice on lindy hop for the show in göteborg. Hanna is flying in air again after have given birth 5 months ago. Cool!! Best regards - mattias (and hanna)

3rd of march- mattias reports

Hi all!
Another great day for practising. After tapdancing for one hour it feels more then right to indulge in a classic swedish treat called plopp. Chocolate at it's best. And for the weekend it is time for herräng. Yes, it is possible to go there also wintertime. Especially if you know the zettermans. Swing low! Best regards, mattias

2nd of march - mattias reports

Hi all.
Here mama hanna is doing a two-in-one. Practice together with sebastian. Go mammy! Best regards - mattias

2nd of march - mattias reports!

Hi all. My first but not last blog. Today we practice like crazy. Tap and lindy hop on the schedule. One month left before the premier in cabaret lorensberg, göteborg. There will be a bugle call rag and a cute. Not very cute as in looking cute but as in tapdancing to the song cute. Look out for more reports. Best regards - mattias

THE MOVE 10!

I am baaaack! And I think I have a pretty good excuse for being away: I was kind of busy giving BIRTH!! To a GIANT! Noone is suprised: the father is mr Yeti-hop himself, Mattias ”Ma-tiger” Lundmark. How could the baby be anything but tall, heavy and handsome. When he was born little (giant) Sebastian was 55 cm long and 4200 gram. It took us 18 hours of labor to realize that he was not coming out on his own and we ended up with a cesarean. The baby was perfectly healthy the whole time it was just me and Mattias who was quite tired. And I healed superfast, so we are very happy how everything turned out. Now life is pretty hectic with snuggling, feeding, changing diapers, trying to eat and sleep, seeing our friends and family who wanna meet our boy and also trying to spend some time together just talking, me and Mattias. But we are defenetly getting there. The first month was a blur, and now we start to know and understand Sebastian better. He is also so much more funny and social now; he always searches for eye-contact and he smiles and laughs. He is adorable, the most beautiful baby I have ever seen. And I am not biased at all… And he is superstrong, he always wanna stand up in our laps and squeezes your finger until it hurts. And his neck has been superstabile from he was 10 days old!! I am trying to juggle all things but right now it feels like we, or at least me, jumped off the roaring “life-train” and stopped at the “baby-station” for 3 months. And I feel like I wanna jump up on the train again, but I am more just running a long it’s side every now and then. And I run out of breath quite fast and I stop and see the train just puffing on without me. But then I look to the side and see Sebastian’s beautiful smile and my lungs and my heart are filled with air, love and happiness and I forget all about life and just wanna crawl back into my cave of snuggling with my babes Mattias and Sebastian… (wow, that was a quite poetic and I hope you know that I KNOW that life is no train and I never go running, I hate jogging). But from time to time life seems to be going in a paste I can handle and we have some great travels coming up! With little giant Seb offcourse! We will go to Uppsala, cologne (where Esther and Bernd are opening their own dancestudio!! IT’S AMAZING AND SOO COOL!!) and then Oslo. Oslo is extra nice because my little brother lives and work north of oslo right now so we will get to see him! And my sister comes to Uppsala and oslo and my mum to cologne, so it is super. We have the best families in the world! And I turned 30(!) the other day. Or more exactly 30th of December 2010 (can you understand how much time it takes me to find time to have time to freakin´ write this blog?!!). Now I am an adult and it feels good. Yes. All has changed now. I am a new person. Mature. Oh yes. Indeed. Hi hi… We had a big party 8th of January with 50 party-people dancing, eating and drinking and singing: and then I was there. With a fever!! Oh no, not the good cool kind (“you give me fever, when you touch me, fever all through the night), no no: the bad kind, like when you´re ill-kind. And the day before the party Seb had 39.5 celcius so we had to take him to the ER, but it turned out to be his first teeth coming out in combination with a regular cold. But now we are all healthy and good and I am slowly getting back into shape (but it hurts!) and we are excited to go to Gothemburg in the end of march to rehearse and be guestartists at cabaret lorenzberg! Oj, now Seb woke up from his nap so I gotta go! See you out in the world and around and I will try to blog more often. Yes. Indeed. Hugs/ Hanna, Mattias and Sebastian