Yesterday Lydia’s school had påskpyssel, which translates more or less to “Easter arts and crafts,” and they spent all day making various Easter decorations. Parents were welcome to join in the fun, so Olof and Tage went over in the morning then came home for lunch, then Tage and I went back in the afternoon.… Read More Wednesday

There are plenty of advantages to having a tech-savvy, computer-obsessed programmer for a husband, but there’s a downside, too. It’s not enough for him that he has two or three computers in his office that he can have his wicked way with, but he has to mess with my computer, too. He’s forever downloading stuff… Read More Computer woes

So I was checking out my stats earlier today, and I saw that the most recent search that led to my site was “Asbjørn porn.” Now, I’m pretty sure that whoever was doing the searching was not looking for porn with my dog in it, but the whole thing brings to mind thoughts I’m happier… Read More Sunday

Tage is a tooth-brushing maniac these days. He’s so obsessed with his toothbrush that I swear he must have the cleanest teeth of any toddler in town. Actually, the truth is he’s discovered that Lydia’s Bugs Bunny toothpaste is pretty darn tasty and he mostly just sucks it off the toothbrush for a couple of… Read More This and That

I got so wrapped up last night in talking to Debi on the phone and working on getting her blog set up that I forgot to post an entry of my own. I had a whole Waffle Day post worked out in my head, too, but now the moment has passed and it’s not about… Read More Friday

The days are getting longer and it now gets light sometime before five o’clock in the morning, an unwelcome harbinger of things to come. The midnight sun is one of those things that sounds much, much better than it is. I suppose it’s a cool enough phenomenon to experience as a tourist, but living with… Read More Sunlight Overkill

“I want to live in America — they have cheerleaders. Ohhhhh, why did you move here? You didn’t have to, you know … you could have asked someone in America to marry you.” I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the thought that the primary concern in my daughter’s life right now is… Read More From the Lydia Files …

I think I may have a new project in the works, if I can talk a certain someone into it. My best friend, Debi, and I have been talking blog stuff for the past couple of days and she seems semi-interested in having one of her own. I’d love to help her get started out,… Read More Ode to Debi

As much as I love watching home decor shows and reading home decor magazines, I think I may have to just accept the fact that we’ll never have a really nice house as long as we have small kids. Some people I know manage to do it, but I just can’t figure out how. Our… Read More A big mess

Snow, snow, and more snow. It’s been coming down pretty hard all day and it doesn’t look like it’s planning on stopping anytime soon. It’s not really very cold outside, though (2°C) and the doesn’t look to be accumulating much. It’s a slushy mess on the streets and sidewalks, and I don’t really feel like… Read More Saturday Stuff