Lately I’ve been feeling an itch to buy a house, which is more than a little ridiculous given that a) houses as big as the one we’ve already got are few and far between, b) we owe almost nothing on our current house, but we’d have to borrow if we were to buy something different, [...]

I’d like to be watching Mad Men with my husband right now, but he bought his first flat-panel monitor this evening, and it doesn’t look like I’ll be tearing him away from it any time soon.

Taking a quick breather between dinner and bathing the little kids, and since I seem to have hit a plateau on Bejeweled, I figured I might as well do a little of that posting thing I’m doing so rarely these days.
Our days of leisure are coming to an end tomorrow morning, with Tage and Lydia [...]

Summer is well and truly winding down, I’m sorry to say.  On Monday my mom left for home–where I hear tell they’ve still got more summer than you can shake a stick at, by the way–and we’ve come to the final days of the kids’ and Olof’s summer vacation.  We’ve still got plenty of sunshine, [...]

My boy is seven years old today.  This is his third birthday cake in less than a week, and he still hasn’t tired of it.  Me, I haven’t tired of that gap-toothed grin.

Shortly before Tage’s party was set to begin this afternoon, I went out to the front of the house to tie some balloons to the drainpipe in order to identify this as the party zone.  I was in a bit of a hurry and not paying close attention to what I did, but luckily enough, [...]

We’re in the middle of a little heatwave here, and I’m hoping with all my might that it lasts through the weekend, when we’re holding both Tage’s birthday party with his friends and also the family party for all three of the older kids.  It’s so much nicer when we can all be outside on [...]