I got so wrapped up last night in talking to Debi on the phone and working on getting her blog set up that I forgot to post an entry of my own. I had a whole Waffle Day post worked out in my head, too, but now the moment has passed and it’s not about… Read More Friday

The days are getting longer and it now gets light sometime before five o’clock in the morning, an unwelcome harbinger of things to come. The midnight sun is one of those things that sounds much, much better than it is. I suppose it’s a cool enough phenomenon to experience as a tourist, but living with… Read More Sunlight Overkill

“I want to live in America — they have cheerleaders. Ohhhhh, why did you move here? You didn’t have to, you know … you could have asked someone in America to marry you.” I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the thought that the primary concern in my daughter’s life right now is… Read More From the Lydia Files …

I think I may have a new project in the works, if I can talk a certain someone into it. My best friend, Debi, and I have been talking blog stuff for the past couple of days and she seems semi-interested in having one of her own. I’d love to help her get started out,… Read More Ode to Debi

As much as I love watching home decor shows and reading home decor magazines, I think I may have to just accept the fact that we’ll never have a really nice house as long as we have small kids. Some people I know manage to do it, but I just can’t figure out how. Our… Read More A big mess

Snow, snow, and more snow. It’s been coming down pretty hard all day and it doesn’t look like it’s planning on stopping anytime soon. It’s not really very cold outside, though (2°C) and the doesn’t look to be accumulating much. It’s a slushy mess on the streets and sidewalks, and I don’t really feel like… Read More Saturday Stuff

So today’s the day for barnbidrag (monthly child allowance from the government — all families with children receive this stipend, regardless of their income), which means that it’s also allowance day for Lydia. It’s come to my attention recently that there’s a fairly considerable disparity between Lydia’s allowance and her peers’ allowances, and I’m a… Read More Show me the money

It’s bright and sunshine-y today and there’s talk of the temperature reaching 10°C, which is a strange contrast to the blizzard-like conditions and the three or four inches of new snow we got last night. One thing’s for certain — it’ll be plenty wet out there today. In the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day* Olof… Read More The Wearin’ o’ the Green, or something

I am about ready to kill my dogs, especially Mette! Tage just went down for his nap, and for some reason the dogs have chosen right now to go into a barking frenzy. They barked like crazy at Lydia when she came home from school, and now they’re standing at the window in the living… Read More Book Talk

The weekend seemed to fly by, although that’s not as much a problem for me as it was in the days when I was gainfully employed. I’ve been thinking about that lately, about how it would be if I ever had an outside job again and had to start following the work-week schedule. I don’t… Read More Monday