A while back, when I asked some of my friends to give me a few ideas for blog posts, April mentioned that I am “an excellent baker” and often post pictures of yummy treats that she wishes she could sample.  I don’t think I’m flattering myself at all if I agree that I am pretty… Read More Give us this day …

My regular blog reads have been filled these past several days with nothing but spring, spring, spring.  People are planting flowers and planning gardens, taking long walks and enjoying leisurely afternoons sitting in the bright, warm, springtime sun.  The seasons are changing up here as well, and Tage and Petra spent a couple of hours… Read More Spring comes to Norrland

Proof that she’s not always so surly as recent photographs might suggest.  In truth, she’s rarely surly, which is probably why I think the grim-faced pictures are so funny.  This one was taken a couple of weeks ago, just before the two of us headed off to town together.

Sarah in Illinois left these questions in a comment last week, and rather than let the answers get buried back there, I figured I might as well address them in an honest-to-goodness post! I’m curious how the transition to life in Sweden was for you and Lydia. Did you speak any Swedish, and have you… Read More Adjustment

When I left off last night, I had moved to Sweden and gone off my MS medication.  Though I was still having a couple of flare-ups per year, in the main I was feeling better than I had done in years. Nearly a year after I moved, I got pregnant.  It is often the case… Read More The calm after the storm …