Why does the dog have to wait until after I’ve mopped the kitchen floor to puke on it? Wouldn’t it have been just as easy for him to puke this morning, before I had mopped, thereby saving me the trouble of having to mop the same floor twice in one day? Actually, it [...]

Sometimes there are really nice moments in motherhood that make all the stress and anxiety worthwhile. This morning I asked Olof to get up with Lydia and get her ready for school so that I could stay in bed for a little while longer while Tage is asleep. This evening after Lydia was [...]

We’re doing a little furniture-moving here, and I’ve been busy all day shifting books, knickknacks, and other miscellaneous from one space to another. About an hour or so ago, Olof helped me move one of our big bookcases from the living room into a different room, and even though he did most of the [...]

It’s been a good weekend so far. Yesterday my friend Andrea and her little boy Zach came up from Umeå and spent the night. We had a nice visit and the kids got in some good play-time before they left this morning. As she usually does, Andrea came bearing gifts, and we [...]

My husband is going to Cancún in April and I’m not going with him. And he’ll be gone on my birthday. And I’ll be home alone with the kids and the dogs (and the cats, too, I suppose) for a week and I’ll likely go crazy. Poor me.
His company staff meeting is [...]

So it turns out that my illness wasn’t a one-day thing as I had hoped it would be. I woke up Sunday feeling much worse than I had on Saturday. I didn’t get out of bed until after two in the afternoon, and the eight or so hours I was up felt like [...]

I woke up this morning feeling like hell. I’ve got a sore throat and a monster headache and general achiness that just won’t quit. Olof got up with the dogs and the baby around 9:30, and let me stay in bed until 12:30, which was very nice. Actually, he almost always lets [...]

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Today was Olof’s and my first wedding anniversary. Not such a big deal, really, because we lived together for a couple of years before we got married, and we just had an almost-spur-of-the-moment courthouse wedding, but it’s an anniversary just the same. Olof surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of tulips this morning, [...]

I really need to get a new mouse for my computer upstairs so that I can stay more connected to my online life! I keep meaning to post here and to check the few message boards that I post regularly on, but I’m not spending much time downstairs at this computer these days. [...]