Summer is winding down, and we’ll all be back to the grind soon enough.  Olof starts up work again tomorrow, and apart from breaking for a mid-morning visit to the dentist I’m sure he’ll be catching up on emails for the entire day.  Petra starts her pre-school orientation on Tuesday morning and that will go… Read More Back to it

A couple of days ago, after clipping the baby’s fingernails, I called Tage over to me to check if he needed a trim as well. Much to my dismay, his nails were all bitten down very short, almost to the quick on some fingers, and his fingertips looked painfully red. Up ’til now he hasn’t… Read More Aversion therapy

In the past six years, I have spent a total of more than three-and-a-half years nursing one baby or another, on top of a year-and-a-half spent pregnant, and I am getting really, really ready to have my body back to myself for more than a few months at a stretch. To that end, we’ve started… Read More Hitting the bottle

I’m not sure how long this connection will last, so this’ll have to be a fly-by post.  I don’t even have much to say, truth be told, but I don’t want to mess up my perfect posting record for 2008, so I have to throw up something. We spent most of the day at the… Read More From the wilds …

We’re on our way out to the wilderness for a couple of days, so you may not hear from me until Wednesday evening (or you may, actually — even the polar bears seem to have Wi-Fi these days, and you know we don’t go anywhere without our laptops).  In any case, this should hold you… Read More Over and out

Apparently out of nowhere, Petra has developed a mean case of arachnophobia. We have a big plastic spider in a rubber net that’s been in various places around our living room for years, and there’s just no way she hasn’t seen it–and many times at that–before today.  Today, however, something has changed,  She’s terrified of… Read More Strange

After weeks of admiring my tiny computer from afar, Olof broke down yesterday afternoon and bought one of his very own.  To tell the truth, having known all along that the biggest reason *I* got one was because he really wanted one for himself, I’m a little surprised that he held out as long as… Read More Envy

We had ourselves a little solar eclipse this morning, which gave Olof the opportunity to prove that he hasn’t forgotten everything he learned in school: