and so it is with the month of November. With this post I am successfully completing my NaBloPoMo mission. That’s right, I have posted here every single day for an entire month, a feat that seemed positively Herculean just thirty days ago. There have been good posts and bad posts, happy and sad posts, [...]

I got this recipe from Carrie after she got it from someone in her mom’s group, and I couldn’t wait to try it. The original recipe called for a boxed cake mix, but since those aren’t so easy to come by here in Sweden, I made a cake from scratch and included that recipe here. [...]

Pictures of Burehembygdsgård, in all its glory:

I feel sufficiently rested now to write a post about our Thanksgiving to-do, which happened on Saturday evening. It was your standard Turkey Day affair, with good food, family, and friends. We had turkey with all the fixings and then some, and pumpkin pies for dessert. The icing on the cake (ha!), [...]

We’re having rather unusual weather here lately.  The temperature hasn’t dipped below freezing in what feels like weeks, the 2-3 feet of snow that covered my front yard not long ago has all but disappeared, and my lawn is covered in still-green grass.  This morning when I took the dogs outside the skies were blue [...]

“The dishwasher shall be emptied, otherwise a 100-kronor (15 bucks, more or less) fee will be charged.”

Like a good many other Americans living abroad, I and mine will be observing the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow. Today has been devoted largely to preparations, and as of this writing I have three freshly baked pumpkin pies on my counter, a turkey in the oven, and a pot of sweet potatoes on the stovetop. Tomorrow [...]

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I just want Tage to GO TO SLEEP ALREADY, so I can go downstairs and spend a little time with my husband before it’s *my* bedtime. Really, is that too much to ask?

I’m trying to cultivate the habit of drinking red wine, because it’s good for my heart and, let’s face it, it’s terribly sophisticated. (It becomes somewhat less sophisticated, of course, when said red comes from a paper carton and costs less than $10 a liter, but let’s leave that, shall we?)
Excepting a few crazy [...]