How can the weekend be over? I’m so not ready to get up at 7:30 tomorrow. I’m so lazy, I swear the only thing that prevents me from keeping Lydia home every other day is that even if she stays home I still have to get up to call the school and say she’s not… Read More Not ready for Monday

I’ve been so caught up in my NaNoWriMo novel that I’ve really fallen down on the job where blogging is concerned. It’s going pretty well, though (the book thing, that is), and I’ve met my daily goal on each of the five days so far. Every day I think I’m not going to make it,… Read More Friday

A few weeks ago I lost my tweezers. The loss was so traumatic that I couldn’t even blog about it, for these are no ordinary tweezers. I got these tweezers nearly eleven years ago, when my first husband worked at a lumber mill. One of the guys he worked with made them and sold them… Read More Close Call

Tage spent a good portion of the day sitting at Olof’s desk, taking very important phone calls. He’s quite the wheeler and dealer, taking, on average, five or six calls per minute. He drives a hard bargain, too. Here’s his side of a recent conversation: Tage: Hi! Ehhhhhh … no. pause Tage: blah blah blah.… Read More Make Believe

I felt like a very successful hostess last night, with thirteen of the sixteen kids we invited showing up for the party (twelve of them in full, elaborate costume!). I knew it would be a good night when Magda, arbiter of All Things Cool, gave this verdict (translated and paraphrased, of course) ten minutes after… Read More Halloween Recap

So tonight was the night of the long-awaited Halloween party. It went mostly according to plan–I think “mostly” is the best you can hope for when it comes to two hours with fourteen second-graders–and everyone seemed to have a good time. I’m totally worn out, so details will have to wait, but I’ll leave you… Read More The Big Blowout!

This afternoon Tage fell on the porch and bit a nasty gash in his tongue. It looks horrible (we tried several times to get a picture, but we couldn’t get one that showed the true horrible-ness — it’s about a centimeter wide and it gapes like an actual wound when he sticks out his tongue),… Read More Boys will be boys?

For a couple of hours this afternoon I was a member of Blog Explosion, a new site that promises to dramatically increase the number of hits on one’s blog. Depending as I do on validation from strangers, I hurried to sign up first and ask questions later. I’m always on the lookout for great blogs,… Read More Explosive!

I really should get up and do something–make a fresh cup of tea, at least–but the sun is so nice and warm shining through the kitchen window onto my shoulders that I can’t bring myself to move.

They’re so cute when they’re sleeping: Oh, and I forgot to post a picture of the flowers Helena brought me when she came over yesterday afternoon. Aren’t they gorgeous?!