We’re expecting a house guest later in the week, and my mom is making plans to come visit in the middle of the summer, so I’m thinking now is as good a time as any to get started sorting out the guest room.  The thing is, unfortunately, the room in question actually isn’t a guest… Read More Spring cleaning

In honor of today being Mother’s Day in North America (we moms in Sweden have to wait another couple of weeks for our day in the sun), I thought I’d post an article I wrote a few years ago about my mom.  It was first published in the now-retired ‘zine, Mosaic Minds, and some of… Read More Credit where it’s due

Last night Petra and Tage were sitting on the office floor playing with Brynja’s baby gym.  For one reason or another, playing turned to antagonizing one another, and before too long Tage hit Petra.  I braced myself for the wailing and screaming, and when it didn’t come I turned my chair away from the computer… Read More Model behavior

Today Brynja is three months old (5.9 kg/13 lbs., 63 cm/25 in., for those keeping score at home), and to celebrate she had her first dose of vaccinations! I’m assured that she took it like a champ (in case you don’t remember from Tage’s visit to the doctor a few weeks ago, I do my… Read More Growing

We bought a new baby gym for Brynja the other day, but she’s been having to share it. I don’t think she minds.

It doesn’t take much in the way of deductive skills, I’m sure, to conclude that we had a bit of a rough weekend, Lydia and I. I’ll spare my readers the unpleasant details (and spare myself the recounting of them), and leave the subject saying only that I fervently hope I’m paying my dues now… Read More Still cute

“Congratulations, Mom,” she tells me.  “You can ruin my life just sitting there.”