Before too long we’re going to be needing more car-space, since baby #4 is on the way (and after we wasted all that energy discussing birth control!). After a disastrous few months on the mini-pill–can they really call it “break-through bleeding” if the bleeding never stops?–I decided to explore other options, and in the three-week… Read More I suppose it’s time to start shopping for a mini-van.

This is the first night in far too long that I’ll be able to go to bed without having to set an alarm to wake me in the wee hours.  Lydia had her end-of-school shindig this morning and Tage finished up at pre-school this afternoon, which means that we’ll be sleeping in for the next… Read More Brief

In an hour or so Lydia and I will hop in the car to drive down to Umeå, where we will catch the overnight train to Stockholm.  Tomorrow morning we’ll meet up there with my mom, who’s on her way to the airport in Houston even as I type, and we’ll spend three “girls only”… Read More Takin’ the night train

After the bittersweetness of the last post, I thought I’d turn to something just plain sweet. I took this video of Petra a couple of hours ago. Cutie Patootie

I think I may already have posted this picture–one of my all-time favorite photos, of my absolute all-time favorite dog–but a picture Olof took the other day reminded me of it, and I had to dig it up again. Her name was Bubba, that dog, and she (yes, “she” — she was named when I… Read More What’s all the hubbub, Bub?