I fear Lydia has misunderstood our family dynamic, particularly the chain of command. We watched Supernanny this evening, and not long after the show ended she came to me in the kitchen and said, “I don’t think we need Supernanny.” “Mmm,” I replied, non-committally. “Yeah,” she continued, “Tage and Olof don’t scream and hit like… Read More Who’s the Boss?

Whenever I travel it takes me a while to settle back in to my daily rhythms and routines upon my return home, even if I’ve been gone only a short time. Lydia’s and my recent trip to Stockholm took us away from home for scarcely more than seventy-two hours, but that was enough to leave… Read More The Stockholm Report

As seems to be my standard practice these days, I’m posting a picture instead of a real entry. This time you get to see my big belly … this picture was taken last Saturday, when I was 33 weeks pregnant.

After staying up way too late last night making untold dozens of cookies then being woken by Lydia way too early this morning, I think I’m finally nearly ready to leave for Stockholm in a little more than an hour. Lydia and I are having a long mother/daughter weekend in the big city, and will… Read More Hasta la vista!

I just now, at ten minutes past eleven at night, took this picture off my front porch. With just over a month left until the solstice, we’ve already got almost twenty-four hours of daylight. It will get a bit duskier tonight than it is now, but it won’t reach full darkness, and by two-thirty in… Read More Twilight

As I know I’ve mentioned before, housekeeping is an ongoing challenge for me. Our being a rather untidy lot, coupled with our living in a too-big house, has led to our living space being barely on the side of, well, livable a good deal of the time. Lately, though, I’ve been making more of an… Read More Spring cleaning

It’s another picture post, but believe me — these are far better than anything I could write.

I was looking through some of my old journal entries from when I was pregnant with Tage, and the first time I posted then about being tired of being pregnant was July 19, just over a month before I was due. As it turned out, he came eleven days ahead of schedule, which was not… Read More Monday