Keep an eye on your dinner or this baby’ll have it before you even know she’s there, a lesson Petra learned the hard way tonight.

It was another bright, shiny day here in the Far North, and the sun was warm on our backs as we walked, first to the doctor’s office for Brynja’s one-year check-up, then to the grocery store for dinner stuffs.  Crossing the bridge on our way home I thought, oh, that would make a nice picture [...]

Yesterday Tage and his classmates participated Lilla Vasaloppet–or “Little Vasa Ski Race”–an 800-meter cross-country ski event staged in honor of the annual Swedish ski marathon, Vasaloppet.  Our boy looked pretty comfortable on his skis, especially given that it was only his third outing on them (and the first was just five minutes in our front [...]

Olof took this high-speed video this afternoon as we drove to town to do a spot of shopping.  The twenty-minute trip is reduced here to a minute-and-a-half.

We’re gearing up for a long night here.  Lydia is scheduled for a sleep EEG tomorrow morning at 7:15, and she needs to be up all night so that she’s tired enough to doze off during the test.  While I’m complaining, though, Lydia herself is all but celebrating.  Not only does she get to stay [...]

After days and days of snowfall, yesterday dawned bright and beautiful, if bracingly cold.  It was too pretty to stay indoors, so Olof and I bundled ourselves up and took a little walk to the pizzeria for lunch.  I took the camera along so that I could pass a little piece of this wintry splendor [...]

It snowed all day Thursday and on through the night, and by the time it stopped we had half a meter of new, fluffy stuff on top of what was already accumulated in the yard.  Yesterday afternoon Olof and I took turns shoveling, but I must confess that the bulk of the work was done [...]

Damn, kids, those were some tasty vittles.
The potatoes and stuff is just a frozen mix from a bag (an appetizing mix to be sure, but alas, not of my own making), and the other bits are the figurative fruits of my latest hardcore vegetarian labors, homemade seitan, sliced and breaded in a blend of herbs [...]