Why, yes, she is still in her pajamas in the mid-afternoon. In fact, she’s been wearing those pajamas for nigh on two days now. She doesn’t seem to mind.

I’m sure Olof and the kids would heartily disagree, but I think these two weeks of Christmas break have seemed very long. I can hardly believe that only fourteen days have gone by since Christmas Eve — it feels like months and months ago. I’ve been itching for a while now to get back to… Read More Interminable

I’ve just got the last of my supporting documentation together for my application to the master’s program, and I’ll send it off tomorrow. I won’t know until mid-March if I get in, so that’ll be a bit of a nerve-wracking wait. In the main, though, I’m much less stressed than the last time I applied… Read More Applied

Tage’s hair had been getting pretty shaggy again, but he resisted all our attempts at persuading him to cut it. Until, that is, we told him he could get the same cut as his idol, the Tenth Doctor: The result is pretty freaking awesome, I have to say. Very worthy of first-post-of-the-new-year status, am I… Read More Doctor Who?

A couple of months ago, my friend, Debbie, discovered iHerb, a webshop in the States that has

I got Olof the same present that my mom got Brynja. You wouldn’t think that would work, but clearly it does.

We didn’t do a photo holiday card this year because frankly, masochism just isn’t my thing. What we did instead was make cards from a picture of this painting I helped the kids make. I didn’t send it to everyone on my card list, just to grandparents, aunts and uncles, and the like, so I… Read More Happy holidays!

Brynja took part in her first Lucia celebration today, at her pre-school. She wasn’t much for the singing, but she was quite taken with her light saber. Er, candle.

For a small fee, the Swedish postal service will print out your uploaded photo to a postcard, address it, and send it anywhere in the world. It’s a good, inexpensive way to send personalized holiday cards. The cards are great, about 5×7 inches in size, and they’re always printed exactly the way you specify. Exactly.… Read More Fair warning