This afternoon was the main event in what proved to be a week of birthday celebrations for Lydia. Because her birthday was in the middle of the week, we had the extended family party last Sunday, the immediate family party on Wednesday, and the kid party today. In addition to those three celebrations, she got… Read More Birthday Girl

I was feeling ravenous a bit earlier, that kind of ravenous-ness that won’t wait for the ten minutes it takes to cook oatmeal or whip up some scones. We’re out of bread so I couldn’t have the typical Swedish breakfast of bread and butter with cheese and I couldn’t have cold cereal because we’re nearly… Read More I love the taste of carrot cake in the morning.

You may have noticed yesterday that this website seemed to have vanished into thin air overnight, and some may even have concluded after the tone of my last post that I had decided abruptly to pull the plug on my blog, but it was only one of those hosting snags that we all face from… Read More Back from the depths