Sometimes it is really fun to have a toy store. This year for Halloween, I let the kids pick out their favorite costumes, and we ended up with a pirate for Christopher, a vampire for Benjamin and a witch for Annika. Christopher was so happy about his pirate costume that he wore it all week…

We had a great break in Switzerland. The holiday started with balmy temps – almost warm enough to get out the shorts. Then, in the middle of the week, everything changed and we woke up to a couple of feet of snow. All the kids tried riding, and all seemed to enjoy it. The school…

Our “summer house” is now mostly done… with the same exceptions as always. The cabinet that was broken on installation has still not been fixed or replaced (a mere 2 1/2 years later) and the lights are not completely installed, but we are feeling more at home. I decided it was high time for a…

Yep, here are the kids after three hours in the adventure pool in Uppsala. But I’m not there… David took them to give me a day at work, since I was home Monday with Benjamin, Wednesday with Christopher, and Thursday and Friday with Annika. Oh – and Tuesday was split between my morning tennis game…

Annika is nothing if not persistent. Dogged. Tenacious. Relentless. If she wants something, anything, it can be pure torture to say no. And my name is NOT “But Mamma…” Right now, the object of desire is a membership in Disney’s latest online craze, PanFu. “It’s educational – I can learn Spanish”, “I can pay for…

Sunday was a horrible day – wind and rain, and nothing you really wanted to be out in. We went to our favorite hamnkrog (which is still open for coffee) and watched them winch boats out of the water to “sleep” for the winter. But the trip to and from the car was like a…

Like Son Yep – more than five minutes in the car and look what happens! Actually, it is an improvement from the days where Benjamin and Christopher could fall asleep before I had even pulled out of the dagis parking lot!