Much is afoot chez nous. Come next Monday we’ll have one daughter in the final year of her basic schooling, another starting kindergarten, and a third embarking on her first year of pre-school. Tage’s changes aren’t so major, but even he will have some differences to adjust to at school, not least being a new… Read More Coming up

So Tage had his ninth birthday over the weekend, and there was celebration aplenty with a fika on Saturday — his actual birthday — then his party with his friends yesterday afternoon. And as usual, where there was celebration there was cake. On Saturday we enjoyed this chocolate/peanut butter beauty that turned out far beyond… Read More Tale of the cakes

Look what my husband made with his own two hands:

It’s just a week now until my mom leaves us to go back home, and just less than a week after that until the kids start school. I guess that means that summer is winding down, something the chill in the air would have told me even if the calendar hadn’t. I hear it’s supposed… Read More On the wane

Last week I took Yrsa to the district nurse for her six-month (!) check-up and vaccinations. She was weighed (7.190 grams, or just shy of 16 pounds), measured (67 centimeters, or a hair over 26 inches), and given the once-over before being pronounced satisfactory. After all that she got a jab in each thigh, which… Read More Statistics

Yrsa turned six months old a couple of weeks ago and we figured it was finally time to get serious about feeding her solids. At first it was some rice cereal here and there, then the odd bit of banana or carrot, but now she’s eating just about whatever she can talk us into giving… Read More Matglad!

Olof’s just finished up his second week back at work after a month’s vacation, and I have to say that it’s been just like starting over again with getting used to him being gone all day. I’m sure one day it will seem like second nature, but we’re not really there yet. There is one… Read More Popping in

This year Petra got to have her first kid party for her birthday, and Saturday was the big day. We had had such nice weather all week and I was hoping for more of the same for the festivities, but we woke up to cloudy skies and breezy weather, of course. Our house being a… Read More Party time!

As we made our way home, we had almost a full day in Copenhagen before catching the 16:30 train back to Sweden. We left the hotel fairly early and stopped to stash our luggage at the train station before setting off mostly unencumbered for Strøget, the big shopping street. The day was gorgeous and sunny,… Read More The end