Lately I’m feeling fresh out of interesting things to write about. Not only have I not written here, but I haven’t been especially active on the couple of message boards I frequent, I’m not answering my emails, and worst of all, I haven’t done a single thing for Mosaic Minds and our submission deadline is… Read More Wednesday
It was a positively gorgeous day today, the first day that I’ve truly felt spring in the air. We drove to town this morning to do a bit of shopping and not only was the highway clear and dry, but there were also little patches of grass visible by the side of the road. I… Read More Saturday
We don’t often leave our dogs home alone because they’re a tad on the destructive side when left to their own devices and we haven’t yet gotten around to buying crates for them (quality crates for big dogs don’t come cheap, I’m afraid). On occasion, however, it does happen that we all have to be… Read More Rush
In what amounts to an embarrassment of TV-show riches, we currently have both Canal Digital and Boxer set up here at home. Since we moved into this house nearly three years ago we’ve had Boxer, but we’ve talked back and forth most of that time about switching services. Ultimately we decided–a couple of weeks ago… Read More Wednesday
Starting tomorrow Lydia is “Star of the Week” for her class. (Sidenote: I have no idea why they don’t call it Veckans Stjärna, and I find the all-too-frequent, inexplicable use of English here faintly annoying.) On each day of the week she’ll give a little presentation about herself, her interests, her family, and so on.… Read More Superstar!
In an unprecedented (by me, at least) crocheting feat, I finished the afghan that I started for the new baby last Thursday. It’s smaller than the one I did for Tage, plus the pattern went much more quickly since it was entirely made up of single crochet stitches, but still, I started and finished the… Read More Wednesday
Poor Olof had a wisdom tooth out this afternoon and he’s not feeling so perky just now. He’s been wondering how long it will hurt, but I don’t have any concrete information for him. I’ve had both of my top ones out, on separate occasions, but they didn’t have to do any cutting or stitching… Read More A tidbit or two …
I got up this morning … er, afternoon, to a wonderful package in the mail. As I’ve done for a little over a year now, I’m participating in a “Secret Someone” exchange with a group of online friends, and today I got the absolute best package from my Secret Someone — two one-pound bags of… Read More Happy Monday to Me!
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Tjej saying that she and and some other ex-pats in Sweden were starting up a group blog that would be written entirely in Swedish, and was I interested in joining in? I jumped at the chance, as much for the opportunity to be associated with… Read More New project