Today is Sweden’s national day, the Swedish Fourth of July, if you will. This is only the second year that this day has been a “red day,” or a public holiday in Sweden, so people are a bit at a loss for what to do with it. We’re just two weeks away from Midsummer, which… Read More Nationaldagen

Last week, in trying to keep her out of his “lab,” Tage shut his bedroom door on Petra’s finger and her nail was ripped almost completely off (including the part that goes under the skin). Because it was still attached at one corner, we just put it gently back over the nail bed and secured… Read More Gruesome

We had been planning for a couple of weeks to make a trip today to visit a friend we don’t see often. She and her eight-year-old son live about a hundred miles (American miles, that is) southwest of us, and making the trip down there is a pretty big deal for us. We have to… Read More Road trip

I read an article on CNN.com yesterday about a 63-year-old British woman who used in-vitro fertilization to become pregnant. There are, of course, many, many things I could say about that, but frankly I don’t have the energy to get into it. I couldn’t leave the issue, however, without remarking on the comments made by… Read More Who knew?

Was up bright and early this morning to take Lydia to a dentist’s appointment at 8:20. A couple of months ago there was extensive water damage done to our local medical building, so services in our town were moved for the time being about ten miles away to a neighboring town. So as not to… Read More Tandvård

Petra would not settle down and go to sleep last night, and after nearly an hour’s struggle I sussed out that she might be hungry (yeah, so we may have forgotten to give her any supper, what of it?). Though she had been nursing for quite a while, I figured something more substantial might be… Read More Gene Simmons of the diaper set

Last week Olof’s sister had a birthday and we were over at her house for coffee. In addition to family, she had invited a friend who has four small children, which meant that together with our three and her own three, there were ten kids under the age of ten there. All ten of them… Read More Growing Pains

Given that this blog has been sorely neglected of late, I probably should concentrate more effort here instead of starting up with something else, but I had a hankering for something new (and a hunk of cheese just wouldn’t do), so I figured I’d give another go at a photoblog. I’m not sure it’s a… Read More A bit of a new project

Of all my kids, Tage is the most expressive. If you can tear yourself away from this animation, check out his new picture pages below: Tage January 2006 Tage February/March 2006 Tage April 2006

I haven’t got much to say just now, so I’ll send you on over to Mosaic Minds. Our “Anticipation” issue went live last Monday, and there’s plenty there to keep you busy for a while. My contributions this time were a feature article and my usual recipe column, and there’s lots more from the other… Read More Housekeeping