Not that it got a chance to be much of a secret, considering that I could keep it to myself for only two days (and then only moderately successfully), but here you have it: I’m pregnant! I figure I’m due mid-July, so it’s still early days yet, but where I come from we like to… Read More In which the secret is revealed

So somehow I did something to my knees a month or so ago and the pain just wouldn’t go away, so I finally went to the doctor this morning. He poked and prodded around and determined that it was a lingering inflammation for which he gave me a cortisone shot in each knee. Within a… Read More Tuesday

I’m afraid that NaNoWriMo has stolen all of my words. I’ve met my daily goal (1,667 words) on each of the eight days of the “contest,” but some days only just barely and the effort is leaving me tapped out. Today was another glorious day up here in Norra Västerbotten. The weather has been so… Read More Monday

How can the weekend be over? I’m so not ready to get up at 7:30 tomorrow. I’m so lazy, I swear the only thing that prevents me from keeping Lydia home every other day is that even if she stays home I still have to get up to call the school and say she’s not… Read More Not ready for Monday

I’ve been so caught up in my NaNoWriMo novel that I’ve really fallen down on the job where blogging is concerned. It’s going pretty well, though (the book thing, that is), and I’ve met my daily goal on each of the five days so far. Every day I think I’m not going to make it,… Read More Friday

A few weeks ago I lost my tweezers. The loss was so traumatic that I couldn’t even blog about it, for these are no ordinary tweezers. I got these tweezers nearly eleven years ago, when my first husband worked at a lumber mill. One of the guys he worked with made them and sold them… Read More Close Call

Tage spent a good portion of the day sitting at Olof’s desk, taking very important phone calls. He’s quite the wheeler and dealer, taking, on average, five or six calls per minute. He drives a hard bargain, too. Here’s his side of a recent conversation: Tage: Hi! Ehhhhhh … no. pause Tage: blah blah blah.… Read More Make Believe