“Oh!” Lydia exclaimed, when she saw my post from yesterday.  “I have a picture of that, too!”  She produced her cell phone to show me, and I knew at once that I had to show off her picture as well.  If anything, I think it’s better than her dad’s.
You can tell by the pattern of [...]

Here’s another winter picture taken by Olof — the focus isn’t so sharp, but you can still see the cool cloud formation.  I’ve never seen anything like this (and, I’m sorry to say, I didn’t even see it live but just the same way I’m presenting it to you).  Nice, huh?

In recent years my holiday greeting/Christmas card list has grown by leaps and bounds.  Last year I sent out some sixty cards to family and friends and had nearly as many sent to my own mailbox from various points on the globe.  I know it seems pointless and unmodern to many people, but I’ve really [...]

After weeks and weeks of a long, drawn-out fall, winter arrived in a great big hurry this past weekend.  We woke on Saturday morning to a temperature of -14°C (7°F), and though it didn’t stay that cold for long, it was plenty long enough for those poor souls–Olof, Lydia, and Tage–who had to be outside [...]

Lydia and I went to town for our monthly mother-daughter lunch yesterday afternoon, and we had the best time we’ve had together in a long time.  We just did the usual–lunch and dessert at our favorite café-slash-bakery and a little shopping afterward–but for once we were both on the same wavelength, calm and relaxed with [...]

At Tage’s school, they have something called Tysta Torsdag, which means “Quiet Thursday,” and they have a weekly competition to see which table can be quietest in the cafeteria during lunchtime.  My boy tells me that his group has never won.  I can’t say I’m surprised.
All I can say is it’s a good thing my [...]

For the past several years, I’ve had “ice pick headaches” semi-regularly.  It’s not tremendously often I have them–maybe once a month. or even once every other month–and usually it’s just for a day or two.  On those days, I might have anywhere from a half-dozen to two dozen quick, extremely painful jabs, and I’ve learned [...]

I went poking around online today, looking for evidence to support the claim I made to Olof that orange cats are rarely female.  I found support aplenty, and also this interesting tidbit:  as uncommon as orange female cats are, long-haired orange females are even less often seen.  Only one in a hundred orange cats is [...]

We woke this morning to find a blanket of snow on the ground.  It was a very thin blanket, maybe a centimeter or so, but the kids were happy to see it.
After spending at least a solid minute admiring the white stuff out the kitchen window, Tage turned to me and said, “Now we should [...]