and Benjamin hates writing. He hates it with a purple passion, and doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. We’re not talking major writing here, just making a few of the same figure, like 15 3s, or 10 Ss. I have made worksheets with tracing letters that he can use to get the…

Annika’s soccer team had a match last night, and it was quite an exciting game. The Stockan coaches noticed that the opposing side had a risky strategy of passing the ball back to their own goalie so that she could take possession and throw it deep into the field. Tied 2-2 towards the end of…

Sometimes I feel like a good mom. Today, Annika had two friends over to play, a sure recipe for disaster. I don’t know what it is about girls, but more than two spells trouble. So I decided that one recipe should be replaced by another, one for chocolate cake. I forced the girls into the…

Sweden has had this focus on lice (see two posts ago) – known in Swedish as “lus”. So, when they want to set up a national reading development scale (Läs-Utvecklings-Schema), what better name could they come up with than LUS. So if you want more information, like on the internet, you have to get past…

The first day of school of 2008! Well, sort of. Benjamin’s first day started at 4pm, with a party, and Annika’s Build-a-Bear wasn’t really going, but it was still pretty official. Of course, that was 2 weeks ago, and since then, we have all had some sort of fever/cold thing and all of the kids…

And better than ever! Yes, the aquarium came back last week, and so far – no casualties! In fact, it is truly better than ever. This time, I took Benjamin to the aquarium store so that he could pick his own fish, and make the aquarium more truly “his”. Now that it is no longer…

Yep, really. So get your lice combs ready for next weekend when Sweden will do its utmost to stop lice from spreading. Exciting. Read more at www.avlusningsdagarna.se. Seriously.