There was no school yesterday or today because of “planning,” and taking the weekend and the fact that Tage and Petra don’t have school on Fridays into consideration, you can see that we’ve had an awful lot of togetherness these past few days.  Too much, really.  By a long shot.
On Thursday evening I was looking [...]

More fall splendor, courtesy of Olof:

Last week I ordered three pairs of pants–two jeans and one sort of cargo-style–and yesterday they arrived.  Against all odds, they all fit, and fit well.  What are the chances?  I think maybe I’ll run to the gas station and buy some lottery tickets.

The other day Tage came along when I picked Petra up from pre-school, and the three of us went with a couple of other moms and their kids (Petra’s schoolmates) to a nearby park.  After she’d had her fill of the playground equipment, Petra ran up to the top of a big hill at the [...]

Over the course of a couple of years, the dogs have more or less taken over the couches in the upstairs living room, and for far too long now, there’s just been no sitting in there because of all the hair. There are plenty of other places to sit in this house, and our [...]

Olof, musingly, reads from the back of the milk carton, “Milk is luxury.”
Tage, a trifle impatiently, replies “Kids don’t know what ‘luxury’ means.”

Sometimes, when things are quiet like they are now, with all three of the older kids away from home and the baby sleeping peacefully in her carriage, I get so caught up in enjoying the silence, in being able to exhale, finally, that I forget to do any of the things I’ve been meaning to [...]