I mentioned a few posts back that Lydia will be starting junior high next year, and I’ve gotten a few questions about what junior high looks like in Sweden.  As with most things, I’m sure it varies from place to place, but in our little town we have one school for all the kids from… Read More Movin’ on up

Got a call a few hours ago that Counting Crows have canceled their concert next month.  In fact, they canceled all of their Scandinavian dates.  Canceled!  GAH! No word on why, not even any real speculation on the official message board.  The Stockholm concert was sold out, and they’re still doing some of their scheduled… Read More Curses!

Due to a combination of things, I sometimes go through spells of really bad knee pain.  My mom and both of my brothers have bad knees, so I’m sure a certain amount it is genetic, but there are also other contributing factors such as multiple sclerosis and my gigantic rack.  Neither of these, of course,… Read More Electrifying

Tage continues to impress his little sisters with his mad Nintendo skillz:

Photographed by a very proud Petra:

My day in an alliterative nutshell … The kids didn’t have school today (it seems they go only about half the time these last several weeks — I’ve stopped asking the reasons), but I was up early anyway to go pick Helena up at the airport.  She’s back in Sweden for a few weeks and… Read More Pillows and pizza and pineapple pie.

For some reason, I keep seeing these ads for nursing covers, touted by sellers as a way to “discreetly” breastfeed your baby in public, and they’ve got me scratching my head.  I mean, I can understand wanting to keep yourself covered up a bit, but this doesn’t exactly scream “discretion,” does it? Really–once you get… Read More See no evil?

As kids are wont to do, mine are growing up fast, and I’m feeling it especially acutely this week.  Last night we had the first parents’ meeting for what will be Tage’s kindergarten group, this afternoon I went to Lydia’s last parent-teacher conference before she starts junior high in the fall, and Olof was on… Read More Ch-ch-ch-changes

Tage has been struggling mightily with the Super Mario game on the Nintendo DS, and he’s becoming increasingly frustrated.  It seems he’s close to the breaking point, and just now he exclaimed in near-agony, “I do want to win, but I lose!” I wanted to tell him that he had just discovered one of life’s… Read More Aye, there’s the rub.