Brynja has a birthday next week, and we’re having a little family get-together tomorrow afternoon to celebrate, which means I spent most of the day in the kitchen baking goodies to serve. As usual, I made way more than we need, but a few different recipes caught my fancy and I couldn’t bear to leave… Read More Excess

So yeah, as usual in the post-partum weeks, my multiple sclerosis is acting up. For the past several days I’ve had some numbness and weakness in my left leg, and also some numbness in my left arm. It’s mild, though, so mild that it’s hardly worth mentioning. In fact, I was thinking earlier this evening… Read More Another baby, another MS flare

Olof’s taken Yrsa off to the doctor’s office for a weigh-in, so I suppose I should take this little bit of free time and do some updating. I wanted to post a couple of pictures of the baby — she’s two weeks old today! — but I can’t find the cord for my camera, so… Read More Friday

You might remember me worrying some time ago that our first-choice girl name was getting too popular. In the end, we decided not to use it, but it was still in the running even a few hours after the baby was born. With all of our other kids we’ve had a firm pick going into… Read More The Name

Ten years ago today, Lydia and I moved to Sweden. Well, I suppose it was technically the 17th that we moved, but by the time we’d traveled nearly twenty-four hours across ten time zones, the calendar had turned over to the 18th, so this is the day that counts. Ten years. Huh.

Last Thursday I was eight days past my due date, and I woke up that morning around 3:30-4 with contractions, finally. They weren’t crazy strong, but were coming every three to five minutes, and since I’ve always had fairly quick labors, I decided to get up and start getting things together for the big day.… Read More Birth Day — An Appropriately Long Recounting

It’s Olof’s and my wedding anniversary today, and to mark the occasion we went and had ourselves a baby girl in the very early minutes of this morning. Yrsa* Elinor Agda came into the world at 12:18 am January 14, weighing 3900 grams (8 pounds, 9 ounces) and measuring 52 centimeters (20 inches). She took… Read More Anniversary