I’ve got so much to do and I’m not making any headway. I have until December 18 to finish up the coursework for my Swedish class so that I can be done with the B-level (and done forever … forever, I say!) with Swedish classes. I have to read a text by a [...]

Just a short entry tonight, because it’s almost eleven o’clock (egad, how did that happen?!), and I want to go to bed as soon as possible.
I took the Svenska B test today (apparently SAS-B is more or less the same as Svenska B, and the test is exactly the same, which is something I didn’t [...]

I have just about had it with Lydia’s glove issues, and the winter has hardly begun. She must be the glove-losingest kid on the planet. I’m almost convinced she thinks they’re one-wear, disposable items! I try not to freak out too much about it, but those things are damned expensive, and it’s [...]

Olof came home from the store this afternoon with a frozen turkey … now we won’t be birdless on the big day! To be honest, I knew that the grocery store would have them in this afternoon, because I sent Olof on a turkey-finding mission late last week, and they told him that they [...]

Tage is such a restless sleeper, and I was up a good portion of the night last night, listening to his tossing and turning. Olof, thanks to a healthy dose of NyQuil, slept obliviously through it all. Even when he’s not medicated, Olof sleeps much more deeply than I do, and I envy [...]

I bought a pair of winter boots two years ago, when we still lived in Stockholm, in preparation for our Christmas trip up here to the hinterlands. For some reason (perhaps it was nothing more than my general aversion to all things snow-related), I later decided I hated the boots and never wore them [...]

Olof has just taken Tage to go in for an afternoon nap, and I’m supposed to be taking the opportunity to work on my informative speech for class tomorrow. The topic is “Thanksgiving,” and I’m going to be talking about the history behind the traditioon and the ways we celebrate it. It’s supposed [...]

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I had a really fun afternoon and evening yesterday. Helena and I (and Tage and Lydia) went out to Debbie’s house (she’s another American girl who lives up here) and Debbie spent three or four hours whipping up the most delicious Chinese food for us. When the meal was ready, Debbie’s husband and [...]

This is far and away the nicest fall we’ve had since I moved to Sweden. Granted, this is only the third year I’ve lived here, but the previous two were so “nasty, brutish and short” that I had been convinced that fall in Sweden was only ever a few weeks of rain that preceded [...]