I had just gotten comfortable in my bed last night a few minutes before eleven o’clock when Lydia came into the room. She had complained earlier about having an upset stomach, but I put it down to all the junk food she’d eaten when she and Olof had gone to town to see Robots [...]

Lately I’m feeling fresh out of interesting things to write about. Not only have I not written here, but I haven’t been especially active on the couple of message boards I frequent, I’m not answering my emails, and worst of all, I haven’t done a single thing for Mosaic Minds and our submission deadline [...]

It was a positively gorgeous day today, the first day that I’ve truly felt spring in the air. We drove to town this morning to do a bit of shopping and not only was the highway clear and dry, but there were also little patches of grass visible by the side of the road. [...]

We don’t often leave our dogs home alone because they’re a tad on the destructive side when left to their own devices and we haven’t yet gotten around to buying crates for them (quality crates for big dogs don’t come cheap, I’m afraid). On occasion, however, it does happen that we all have to [...]

In what amounts to an embarrassment of TV-show riches, we currently have both Canal Digital and Boxer set up here at home. Since we moved into this house nearly three years ago we’ve had Boxer, but we’ve talked back and forth most of that time about switching services. Ultimately we decided–a couple of [...]

Starting tomorrow Lydia is “Star of the Week” for her class. (Sidenote: I have no idea why they don’t call it Veckans Stjärna, and I find the all-too-frequent, inexplicable use of English here faintly annoying.) On each day of the week she’ll give a little presentation about herself, her interests, her family, [...]

In an unprecedented (by me, at least) crocheting feat, I finished the afghan that I started for the new baby last Thursday. It’s smaller than the one I did for Tage, plus the pattern went much more quickly since it was entirely made up of single crochet stitches, but still, I started and finished [...]

Poor Olof had a wisdom tooth out this afternoon and he’s not feeling so perky just now. He’s been wondering how long it will hurt, but I don’t have any concrete information for him. I’ve had both of my top ones out, on separate occasions, but they didn’t have to do any cutting [...]

I got up this morning … er, afternoon, to a wonderful package in the mail. As I’ve done for a little over a year now, I’m participating in a “Secret Someone” exchange with a group of online friends, and today I got the absolute best package from my Secret Someone — two one-pound bags [...]