I’ve just read an alarming bit of news that may finally convince my brother, Sam, that he needs to get his genes out there in the pool: apparently, redheads may become “extinct” within the century.
I’ve been trying and trying to have a redheaded baby, but so far haven’t succeeded–I’m still holding out hope for [...]

One thing that didn’t occur to me when I decided to move permanently to Sweden and thus raise my children as Swedes is just how irritating I would find it to listen to them butchering my beloved mother tongue day after day.   Some of the “Swenglish” I find cute–endearing, even–but most of it bugs me [...]

Though it offended his tender sensibilities mightily, Olof finally agreed yesterday to let me buy a little stereo system with a CD-changer. I’m well and truly tired of listening to my music on the clock-radio, and I’d also like to be able to do a little track-programming and random-playing. Olof’s reasoning against a [...]

Petra’s been a counting fool these past few months. She can count to thirteen or fourteen in both English and Swedish — she doesn’t really understand the concept of numbers, of course, but she knows in which order the words go, and she never mixes the languages. She’ll use any opportunity to show [...]

Invitations to Tage’s birthday do went out yesterday, so it looks like we’re having a party on Sunday whether we like it or not. We’ve invited nine pre-schoolers, and so far I’ve got nothing planned besides the Batman cake that Tage requested months ago. With any luck the weather will be decent that [...]