I sure hope so, because by the looks of things outside we’re a long way from seeing anything bloom this month.

I’m an irritable person, I admit it, and I’ve been known on occasion to get all het up about trivial things that don’t affect me in the slightest. The way that some women calculate the advancement of pregnancy is one of those things. Consider yourselves warned. Okay, so a term pregnancy is supposed to be… Read More Math lesson

Five years ago today I sent the instant message that would change my life forever. I was relatively new to the internet and completely new to ICQ and the like, and I had set a rather frenetic pace chatting with strangers far and wide. I also used the program to keep in touch with “real-life”… Read More Another “American Girl Meets Swedish Boy on the Internet” story …

Moments like these are why I keep having kids, even though some days they drive me crazy: It’s a bit reminiscent of a five-year-old Lydia:

I finally made my first trip of the year to my favorite plant nursery, and they had so many pelargoniums I wanted that I had a hard time narrowing it down to three. Actually, my first pick was a no-brainer — they had the Orange Rosenknopp that I’ve been coveting for months and months and… Read More Flower Thursday!

Sometimes I think my husband’s life would be a lot easier if he had married a Swedish woman (though, of course, if she were Swedish it is highly unlikely that they’d be married). If he had a Swedish sambo, he probably wouldn’t have to listen to her complain about him bringing home pickled herring and… Read More Food Fight

Though I always have at least one cat, I am not a cat person. While I have varying degrees of fondness for my own cats, I don’t particularly like cats in general. I’m not one to gush over pictures of kittens–they have a brief window of cuteness, but puppies beat them all to hell in… Read More That Darn Cat

I’ve been a crocheting fool lately, making baby hats like it’s going out of style. Because I find myself short of words at the moment, you’ll have to content yourselves with pictures of my three latest designs: And just because he’s cute as all get-out, you also get a picture of Tage:

Today I had an appointment with a new psychiatrist to work up a plan for weaning myself off of Zoloft. Last summer I had been planning to go off it entirely before we even started trying for a baby, but after discussing it with my original doctor, I decided to keep taking it through the… Read More Friday

Earlier today we ventured out in the snow (yes, it snowed this morning!) for a checkup with the midwife. It was an uneventful appointment, which was good. My weight is up only one kilogram from four weeks ago and the baby is measuring right on time. Less good is that my iron is still low,… Read More 28 Weeks and Counting