Angelina turned three years old, and had a party worthy of a princess, dressed in here Belle dress she hosted the princess party of the year! The puzzles where the big hit and she hasn’t really gotten interested in the fancy bike we bought her, but come summer I hope she will be swishing about…

On the 29th of June SSG Riga will arrange a full weekend of Fioresque training and swordplay. The seminars and workshops will mainly be led by Colin Hatcher on of the SSG Senior Instructors from the bay area branch in america. Colin Hatcher is currently working on an in depth study of Fiores dagger work…

I am just back in Riga from a two day trip to Stockholm to teach a self defence course for FASI (Salvation Army Social Institute) and to tie up some loose ends, like preparing to sell the car etc. Preparing the course I made some amazing discoveries. The first one being that I could teach…

Right now I am teaching a WSD seminar at a FASI course in Stockholm. Hence no posts.

A slow day today, cleaning day. Our house looks like a bomb exploded in it, due to all the travelling and sick children, sick parents etc… I thought I’d share the paper I wrote on the Holy Spirit as part of the Assessment conference, I got a rather high grading on the paper and while…

In reply to my article yesterday Emanuel Karlsten, High profile Youth leader in the Swedish Salvation army wrote this reply (I appologize to those of you who do not speak English). In short he says that he would not wear the uniform as it looks today (on account of todays uniform looking geeky) but would…

The Salvation army uniform is obviously an issue that has been debated to the bitter end and back again and previously on this blog I have posted one or two articles about uniform issues as well. Either way I have some new experiences that I would like to share. As I was in Malmö last…

So here we are back in Riga after a long, hard but extremely rewarding weekend. The girls are glad to be home and it will be nice to sleep in our own bed tonight. Today we also received the result from the assesment conference. Here is the report sent to the Swedish candidates unit. ”…

Going down to the sword training last night, I said bye, bye Angelina and she replied bye, bye daddy, Aj loba yoo! It is a moment I will never forget!

It has been a hysterical weekend as it always is when I am with my brother Hampi. We where supposed to take it easy and have a relaxing saturday evening, watching the Swedish eurovision contest and eat some snacks. The night started well as we crammed into the sofa in front of the schlager fest…

As we where sitting in the little church in Limhamn, listening to the fairy like sound of the flute carrying the celtic prayers up to God in heaven, the sun kissed the church as wave after wave of sunshine rolled over us like a tide. We where enveloped in the love of God as he…

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately, mostly about what direction my life is now taking. Going into training college in fall and heading into Salvation Army officership. I look ahead and I just don’t know where the road will take me, while the path is clearly marked out the end is very…

And a happy one at that, I wish you all a beautiful 2007. Now I go to Sweden for the Salvation Army national youth conference where I am the main speaker. Hopefully I’ll say what God wants me to say (especially since the harddrive with all my notes broke down today so I am travelling…

Somewhere in between fun and serious comes this worship tutorial sent to me by Karina, but it does bring the point across beautifully, it is time to worship our God! [gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/tpLfgqUBJyo”][/gv]

We are having a marvellous Christmas here in Riga with my Mom and Brother present. It’s been a Christmas with food, presents, movies and games. We are trying to find that holiday peace and quiet to recharge our batteries for a very busy spring with WSD courses in both Finland and Sweden; February assesment conference…

I wrote earlier this year about how I didn’t know any normal people, and how I started the martial arts school to meet people who where not Christian. well the womens selfdefence course didn’t help as it made sure a lot of women came (imagine that) the Jiu jitsu class had very low attendence while…

It seems like forever since i updated this site and som much have happened! We had our Boothcamp (Latvian national youth camp) wich was teh big event of the year here in Latvia. It went extremely well, I will have to write a full post on that later but lets just say that God showed…

Today Anjas first tooth came out and we have what seems to be a little rice grain popping out. It is a good day, a day of celebration!

My brother sent me this clip, saying: haha, isn’t this funny, I looked at the video and while it made the point clearly I just couldn’t se it as funny knowing that this is what will happen one day.  Are you ready for it, or does it strike you as funny? [gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/SmLhyPjHVes”][/gv]

We have been running our swordpractice for approximately six weeks now and ever so often people from other swordfighting groups and reenactment societies show up at the training to check us out and everytime without fail I am invited to come and test my metal against their group. So yesterday I picked up my swords…

As much as I try to deny it I am a true geek in all the senses of the word, and I have tried to keep technical (IT) blog posts of this blog andkept it all on a secret blog out there but alas, time to cave in and show my true colors so I…

Less than a month to my birthday and people are asking what I would like to get, and I am always ata loss to answer well here is the comprehensive list. And yes this is my dream list, it’s the one time a year I get to dream shamelessly about gadgets and gizmos….. You have…

Arriving in Texas Brian let me know that he wanted to do a compagno test with me before I left the states. Naturally I was thrilled at the opportunity, but also a bit apprehensive, would I know enough to pass the test? As the days rolled by I was more and more sure that I…

I got up at four in the morning to catch a flight to Amsterdam from Riga. Having a serious case of jitters before my trip I couldn’t sleep before after midnight. At Amsterdam I had just had time to buy a sandwich and get on my flight for Detroit. The flight to Detroit will be…

So this is my rub it in your face post. I am now (or very very soon) on my way to Texas to attend WMAV 2006, THE western martial arts event of the year, sporting the best swordfighters the western world has to offer. Checked the weather forecast to, it’s going to be like a…