Was up bright and early this morning to take Lydia to a dentist’s appointment at 8:20. A couple of months ago there was extensive water damage done to our local medical building, so services in our town were moved for the time being about ten miles away to a neighboring town. So as not to… Read More Tandvård

Petra would not settle down and go to sleep last night, and after nearly an hour’s struggle I sussed out that she might be hungry (yeah, so we may have forgotten to give her any supper, what of it?). Though she had been nursing for quite a while, I figured something more substantial might be… Read More Gene Simmons of the diaper set

Last week Olof’s sister had a birthday and we were over at her house for coffee. In addition to family, she had invited a friend who has four small children, which meant that together with our three and her own three, there were ten kids under the age of ten there. All ten of them… Read More Growing Pains

Given that this blog has been sorely neglected of late, I probably should concentrate more effort here instead of starting up with something else, but I had a hankering for something new (and a hunk of cheese just wouldn’t do), so I figured I’d give another go at a photoblog. I’m not sure it’s a… Read More A bit of a new project

Of all my kids, Tage is the most expressive. If you can tear yourself away from this animation, check out his new picture pages below: Tage January 2006 Tage February/March 2006 Tage April 2006

I haven’t got much to say just now, so I’ll send you on over to Mosaic Minds. Our “Anticipation” issue went live last Monday, and there’s plenty there to keep you busy for a while. My contributions this time were a feature article and my usual recipe column, and there’s lots more from the other… Read More Housekeeping

Notice me in the background saying that it’s not a good idea, but Petra seemed to like it.

There is something fundamentally unjust about having to deal with pimples and grey hairs simultaneously.

It was back to Kåge bright and early this morning, for Lydia’s first belt tryout. The whole affair went quickly enough, and we were back on our way home after just an hour, with Lydia the proud bearer of a diploma certifying that she is no longer a novice. Due to some sort of shipping… Read More Sunday