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R2BC: The snow workout
This week seems to have flown by and it’s already Thursday, and that means: reasons to be cheerful. Little O has been settling back in at preschool much better and has had a good week. We had a large...
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Week 6 – Project 365
A week free of sickness – hooray! Little O was off nursery (or förskola as it is called here) on Monday and Tuesday, just to make sure that he was fully recovered, so we had a lazy day in on Monday,...
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Settling in
After Baby E completed the three-day inskolning process at preschool, he had a week and a half of shorter hours to ease him in. However, it didn’t really turn out like that. Monday went fine – he...
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A week of change
First day nerves? Hectic would be the word for this week. Or perhaps draining, or maybe even exhausting. Monday was a normal day: up early, off to work for 6am, finish work at 2pm, home, change for the...
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R2BC – the police car edition
It’s been quite a long time since I joined in with Reasons To Be Cheerful – a really long time – but I’ve decided it’s time to start linking up at Michelle‘s again. So here are this week’s reasons: -...
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No, no, nap, no
These days Little O is just growing up so fast. In fact, in his first week back at preschool, we had a call asking if we would like him to take up an available spot in the next class up from the...
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Portraits 5/52
“A portrait of my children, once a week” Little O: proving the old adage that children love nothing more than an empty box ° ° ° “Where are you going, Baby E?” “Dagis…” The same all weekend long. ° ° °...
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Portraits 7/52
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Little O: learning amazing things at förskola – here he is explaining to me the noise that ants make when they communicate with each other...
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Questioning the queuing
Photo from stockholm.se As I wrote a few months ago, we have applied for five state-run förskola (nurseries) for August. As the end of July drew near, we realised that we were not going to get a place...
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Happily, the moment that I blogged about our frustration with timing issues at the private preschool that Little O attends, the problems were resolved. Yes, when I went to collect him this week, I was...
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This is something that I had forgotten that I did every so often during my first pregnancy and so I thought that I would resurrect it (oh, did I mention that I was pregnant…? Well, that is what this...
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The halfway point
Photo © English Mamma How far along? 20 weeks and 6 days Total weight gain/loss: Just weighed myself and have put on about three kilos (eek!) but I do have an excuse: we’ve just returned from two weeks...
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Looking back at 2011
Photo by Sascha Grant (Flickr Creative Commons) Like last year, I’ve decided to round up the past year, month by month, and see how 2011 went. - In January, I decided to get my blogging mojo back by...
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So Little O turned two just over a week ago and is now turning into a little boy – he’s definitely no longer a baby, although he’ll always be my baby. I try so hard not to compare what he can do with...
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All change!
Image © Stockholm Stad I think that I might have mentioned here and there in other posts that Little O is changing to a new preschool. He has been attending a private* bilingual preschool since June...
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R2BC – autumn sunshine
This week I am revelling in the cooler days and the beautiful sunshine that Stockholm has to offer at this time of the year. I forget every year but then autumn rolls around and I remember, once again,...
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R2BC – Seeking out the positives
I know I’m a day late with my Reasons to be Cheerful, but then this week has had its ups and downs – and mainly downs, unfortunately. However, I’m going to ignore them and focus on the positives, of...
View ArticleGrabbing a few minutes
Well, just checking in quickly here while Baby O (how much longer can I call him that, now he’s 13 months old?) plays with his talking dog. We completed the “schooling in” process at preschool the week...
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Form an orderly queue…
Last week, we visited the förskola/nursery (also called dagis here) that Baby O will start in early June. We have applied for the five state-run schools that we could through the local authority but...
View ArticleStill here!
So, I’ve not been posting much recently and even when I have, it has really only been photos for The Gallery and Silent Sunday. But I am still here! Real life has just been taking over recently. This...
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