So my twenty-year high school reunion is coming up this summer (how on earth did that happen?!), and for the past several years I’ve been excitedly planning to go back to Idaho for it. Unfortunately, due to a number of circumstances more or less out of our control, we’ve had to shelve those plans. We’ve… Read More Best-laid plans

The past few weeks I’ve been in a bit of a funk, due most likely to a combination of things including, but surely not limited to, fluctuating hormones, lingering winter, and unsatisfying sleep. After a post-partum appointment with the district nurse last week that found me sort of unloading a bunch of stuff I didn’t… Read More So crazy it just might work

Both of the two youngest are asleep, and given how seldom that happens in the middle of the afternoon, I figured I’d best churn out a blog post to mark the occasion. The weather was gorgeous today, sunny and clear-skied, with temperatures as high as 50°F (10°C), but due to one thing and another, I… Read More Monday

We are in desperate need of a new couch in our downstairs living room. The one we have is really on its last legs — we got it third-hand (at least) years and years ago, and I think it’s taken all the sitting and jumping, climbing and clawing, spilling and peeing, that one couch can… Read More Sitting room

Something you may not know about me: I don’t kill bugs. Pretty much ever. I do make exceptions for flies and mosquitoes and anything that — God forbid — is or might be in my foodstuffs, but otherwise the creepy-crawlies are safe with me. Any unwanted guests of the many-legged variety are carefully captured and… Read More Rescue

This coming week is sportlov, or winter sports holiday, in my part of Sweden. Not being winter people or sporting people, really, we don’t generally put the free days to especially good use, I’m afraid. Tage has gone to the mountains with his cousins for a weekend of cross-country skiing and other wintry activities, but… Read More Break

For those of you who don’t get our local newspaper, here’s Yrsa’s baby announcement, which ran today: “Tage, Brynja, Lydia och Petra fick en lillasyster, Yrsa, den 14 januari. Hela stora gänget tillhör Olof and Beverly Tjerngren i Bureå.”