We got quite a few inches of snow last night, and since Olof is sick I agreed to go out and shovel the driveway around the car. Our driveway is actually more of a parking lot, since our house used to be a store, and I was not at all looking forward to clearing all… Read More Saved by the Plow
The one and only grocery store in our little town is undergoing major renovations, and while I’m looking forward to the larger size and the increased selection that will come with the changes, right now it’s a total mess. The layout is different literally every day, and even the simplest of shopping lists will send… Read More This and that
Olof has been complaining of a sore throat all day, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he’s brewing the same sickness that sidelined me a couple of weeks ago and took Lydia out just after New Year’s. I really hope, for his sake, that that’s not what he has, but so far it seems… Read More Monday
Why does the dog have to wait until after I’ve mopped the kitchen floor to puke on it? Wouldn’t it have been just as easy for him to puke this morning, before I had mopped, thereby saving me the trouble of having to mop the same floor twice in one day? Actually, it seems as… Read More Housewife blues …
Sometimes there are really nice moments in motherhood that make all the stress and anxiety worthwhile. This morning I asked Olof to get up with Lydia and get her ready for school so that I could stay in bed for a little while longer while Tage is asleep. This evening after Lydia was home, I… Read More Thursday
We’re doing a little furniture-moving here, and I’ve been busy all day shifting books, knickknacks, and other miscellaneous from one space to another. About an hour or so ago, Olof helped me move one of our big bookcases from the living room into a different room, and even though he did most of the work,… Read More Oh, my aching back …
It’s been a good weekend so far. Yesterday my friend Andrea and her little boy Zach came up from Umeå and spent the night. We had a nice visit and the kids got in some good play-time before they left this morning. As she usually does, Andrea came bearing gifts, and we were all feeling… Read More Saturday
My husband is going to Cancún in April and I’m not going with him. And he’ll be gone on my birthday. And I’ll be home alone with the kids and the dogs (and the cats, too, I suppose) for a week and I’ll likely go crazy. Poor me. His company staff meeting is in Cancún… Read More Drug talk
So it turns out that my illness wasn’t a one-day thing as I had hoped it would be. I woke up Sunday feeling much worse than I had on Saturday. I didn’t get out of bed until after two in the afternoon, and the eight or so hours I was up felt like an eternity… Read More Back among the living
I woke up this morning feeling like hell. I’ve got a sore throat and a monster headache and general achiness that just won’t quit. Olof got up with the dogs and the baby around 9:30, and let me stay in bed until 12:30, which was very nice. Actually, he almost always lets me sleep in… Read More Pity Party