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...
View ArticleLooking 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...
View ArticleBilingual babbling
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...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleR2BC – 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,...
View ArticleR2BC – 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 ArticleR2BC: 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...
View ArticleWeek 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,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSettling 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...
View ArticleR2BC – 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: -...
View ArticleNo, 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...
View ArticleDay 37 – Bamse
Dressed up in his Bamse reflective vest and ready for an excursion.Filed under: Photo
View ArticleDay 38 – Ja, tack!
And we are definitely saying yes to a place for Baby E at Little O’s nursery (förskola).Filed under: Photo
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleR2BC – 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: -...
View ArticleNo, 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...
View ArticlePortraits 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. ° ° °...
View ArticlePortraits 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...
View ArticleQuestioning 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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