I don’t know if Tage’s having a growth spurt or if the cold he’s got is just wearing him down, but he is a sleeping fool right now. Yesterday evening he fell asleep around 5:30, which is a bit late for a nap, but there’s no keeping him awake when he decides it’s naptime. As… Read More Tuesday

It’s been a pretty low-key weekend. It rained a fair amount on Friday, and the kids and I stayed in and dyed Easter eggs. Lydia is such a creative, artistic kid — she put all my best egg-dyeing efforts to shame. Tage helped out this year for the first time, but I think he was… Read More Sunday

Voilà, even! Behold the ravioli! We gave it another go this evening, and this time it turned out pretty well (thanks in large part to my husband’s pasta-rolling skills). So maybe Ted isn’t such a rat bastard after all. Today being Maundy Thursday, all the little Easter witches were out in full force in Sweden,… Read More Viola! Wallah!

Tage has lately developed a love of the outdoors and he wants to spend nearly every waking minute out there. He throws a hysterical, screaming fit whenever we make him come inside, no matter how long he’s been out or how cold it is out there. I’m reminded of why I sometimes hated taking Lydia… Read More Wednesday

Yesterday I bought a tea that I hadn’t tried before, Lapsang Souchong Tea, mostly because the name intrigued me. It was described on the package as “a smoky flavoured tea from the Fujian province of China,” and that didn’t sound too bad, so I thought it was worth a try. Last night I brewed up… Read More “Smoky” is right.

Earlier today we went to town and, among other things, I went to Aqua Spa to use the gift certificate for a body scrub and kurbad (no idea how to translate that — it’s a bath) that my sisters-in-law gave me for the birthday last year. It was very relaxing and my skin is silky-smooth… Read More This and That

Yesterday Lydia’s school had påskpyssel, which translates more or less to “Easter arts and crafts,” and they spent all day making various Easter decorations. Parents were welcome to join in the fun, so Olof and Tage went over in the morning then came home for lunch, then Tage and I went back in the afternoon.… Read More Wednesday

There are plenty of advantages to having a tech-savvy, computer-obsessed programmer for a husband, but there’s a downside, too. It’s not enough for him that he has two or three computers in his office that he can have his wicked way with, but he has to mess with my computer, too. He’s forever downloading stuff… Read More Computer woes

So I was checking out my stats earlier today, and I saw that the most recent search that led to my site was “Asbjørn porn.” Now, I’m pretty sure that whoever was doing the searching was not looking for porn with my dog in it, but the whole thing brings to mind thoughts I’m happier… Read More Sunday

Tage is a tooth-brushing maniac these days. He’s so obsessed with his toothbrush that I swear he must have the cleanest teeth of any toddler in town. Actually, the truth is he’s discovered that Lydia’s Bugs Bunny toothpaste is pretty darn tasty and he mostly just sucks it off the toothbrush for a couple of… Read More This and That