Tage’s taken a little break from the Halloween decorating and moved on to something more universal.  He spent much of last night and a good part of today drawing pictures of his latest idol, Yoda, and hanging them up around the house for everyone to enjoy.  So that we’ll never be far from the little… Read More Home decor

It’s starting to get pretty cold at night now, and the daytime temperature has been hovering right around freezing for the past couple of days.  Olof put the winter tires on the car yesterday, and I’ve been half expecting to see snow every morning when I get up, but so far we’ve been blessed with… Read More Winding down

Tage has been a demon with the scissors for the past several weeks, cutting every scrap of paper he can find into a heart or a Pokémon ball or a tree or a superhero. Tonight he started in making Halloween decorations, so we’re very heavy on the ghosts and bats now. Funnily enough, it was… Read More Seasonal

We set the clocks back last night–I started mid-afternoon, actually; with upwards of thirty clocks, it doesn’t pay to leave things to the last minute–and it’s felt like a very long evening tonight. It only gets worse from here, of course, and within a few weeks I know I’ll be looking wistfully back to days… Read More Daylight fading

The other day, on our way home from Umeå, Olof, Brynja, and I stopped off to browse around an odds-and-ends store that’s tucked away sort of in the middle of nowhere.  A particular item on a shelf in the menswear section caught my eye, and I had to investigate further: For comparison’s sake, we put… Read More Namesake

I don’t know if my comment yesterday about no bread being safe from Asbjørn was prescience or me jinxing myself or just plain coincidence, but that fat bastard ate an entire unopened loaf of bread today.  He’s so sneaky that I probably wouldn’t even have noticed it was missing if I hadn’t found the chewed-up… Read More Binge

We needed to pop by the vet’s office today to re-stock our supply of Asbjørn’s diet food, so we decided to take him with us for an official weigh-in.  He’s down three kilos (almost seven pounds), which is less than I was expecting but still good.  It’s been six weeks since we started this plan,… Read More Slowly, but surely

Tage’s favorite bedtime story of late is a book he checked out from the library last week, Döden i ett nötskal (Death in a Nutshell). It’s about a young boy whose mother is gravely ill. When the boy meets Death on the beach, making his way to the mother’s bedside, the boy attacks Death and… Read More Sweet dreams