I’m sorry, what?

So thanks to a tip from my fabulous friend, Helena, I found out today that my all-time favorite band, Counting Crows, are touring Europe this summer. Further investigation led me to the discovery that they’re playing Stockholm on June 16! I wasted no time buying a ticket (or, rather, I wasted about an hour waiting… Read More Eeeeeee!!!

Lydia has been complaining a lot lately about how messy our house is.  Apparently all of her friends’ houses are always clean and she’s embarrassed that ours isn’t.  That’s fair, I suppose.  Our house does tend to the untidy side, to put it mildly.  For the most part we manage to steer clear of disgusting,… Read More The hard truth

Our baby announcement ran in the local newspaper today. For those of you who don’t have access to it, here’s the picture we sent in. I’m really pleased with how well it turned out — I’ve already ordered enlargements for us and for the grandmas.

Believe it or not, she was fast asleep there, and stayed that way for quite some time.

The other day I was soaking in the bathtub and reading when Tage came in to go pee.  He looked at me then at my book, and his eyes lit up.  “That’s very good,” he said, his voice a mix of surprise and admiration.  “Take a bath and read a book.  Two things at once.”

This picture was actually taken three days ago, when she wasn’t quite a month old yet, but it’s the best I’ve got on short notice. Part of me wants to do a sort of monthly update thing, but it doesn’t seem quite fair considering that I didn’t do it for any of the others. And… Read More One month old

S-L-E-E-P.  That’s right, hours and hours of (mostly) uninterrupted sleep. After the unmatched awfulness of Wednesday night, Petra decided to take it easy on us last night and went to bed without much fuss, where she stayed–and slept–until some time after eleven o’clock this morning.  I could hardly believe it when I woke at five… Read More How do you spell relief?

I dragged myself out of bed at noon today feeling dehydrated and horribly hungover, and without the memory of even a little bit of fun to have made it all worth it. As I mentioned a few days ago, Petra is something of a challenge for us lately. At first we chalked it up to… Read More Bittersweet

Just sitting around waiting for Olof to get his work call and have it done with so he can go to the grocery store.  I probably could have gone myself, but that is so not my thing. Actually, I really like to go grocery shopping, but I usually avoid it at our little store here… Read More Impatient