So my mom and I arrived here in Bureå a week ago, after a few days of driving and sight-seeing through this beautiful country. Unfortunately, I didn’t take very many pictures on those days, but I may poke through my mom’s flickr one of these times and choose some to share here. We saw a… Read More Report

(Yes, I’m aware that I’m painfully overdue to write some actual words here, but I’m hoping you all will be distracted from that by my adorable baby.)

It’s Petra’s birthday today, and we spent the whole day celebrating. Her cake was a “chocolate pizza” that obviously met with her approval:

I had meant to write a post a few days ago, but I forgot my password and after countless fruitless attempts to sort that out, I had to resort to putting my techie husband on the case. He spent a good chunk of time doing server- and webhost-type stuff today, and managed to restore my… Read More On the road

We’ve reached the halfway point in Olof’s four-week vacation and so far we’ve done pretty much a whole lot of nothing. That’s not a complaint, however, as I always think the best vacations are those that let you relax and unwind. The couple of times that we’ve filled up our vacation days with plans and… Read More Summer fun

Last week Petra went to a daycamp run by the church, where she got to sing and play and splash in the water and go to a zoo, among other things. There was some indoctrination too, of course, but of the very gentle, Swedish-church variety, and she had a very good time. On Sunday, the… Read More Sunday

For once I have a legitimate excuse for my radio silence — our internet went down on Sunday evening and we were offline until late this afternoon. I don’t mind telling you that those days left me feeling more than a little cut off from the world. In any case, after our late-night visit to… Read More Midnight sun

Yrsa’s been nursing a summer cold for the past week or two, and a couple of nights ago she started coughing quite a bit throughout the night. Other than disturbing her sleep–and ours–however, the cough didn’t seem to be bothering her. Last night, though, around ten o’clock, she started with that barky cough that usually… Read More Midnight run

Petra had to be at the field this morning at 8:45 for a soccer tournament, which meant we were up at 7:30 on a Saturday. The first game started at 9:30 and the last one ended around 2:00, so it was a pretty full day. I have surprised myself by turning out to be the… Read More Game time

This afternoon I took Petra to lunch in town. We went to the new Espresso House that just opened in Skellefteå, and the first thing I thought was that Wayne’s Coffee is really going to have to step up their game in order not to find themselves in a bad way. For a good many… Read More Unexpected