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Daily: 2290 – clothes
Ingrid is now about as tall as me, and hasn’t stopped growing yet. She just culled a basketful of clothes from her wardrobe. Some she has outgrown, some she simply doesn’t like any more. And I almost...
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Daily: 2293 – drinks buffet
Setting the table for this family is complicated. It’s Adrian’s job, and whenever I try, I struggle a bit to get all the details right. Eric and I want adult-sized glasses; Adrian prefers a smaller...
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Daily: 2296 – the plaster stash
Plasters are magical. I don’t know if it is a physical thing or purely psychological, but Adrian tells me that putting a plaster on a scraped finger makes it hurt less. Perhaps the feeling of the...
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Daily: 2345 – they’re growing up
For the first time ever, both Ingrid and Adrian are away on sleepovers and Eric and I are spending an evening on our own. Cooking dinner for two feels strange and unusual: all the food suddenly fits...
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Daily: 2379 – my shopping list
… when the kids are old enough to cook their own meals when their meal times are out of sync with the rest of the family, and their cooking doesn’t stretch much farther than pasta with ketchup or...
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Daily: 2390 – out of pasta again
Even when there is a box of macaroni in the pantry, it doesn’t mean that we actually have macaroni. Or, well, I guess technically we do have macaroni, but the amount is a rounding error. How hard is...
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Daily: 2400 – not to be thrown away
Memm, jag har någonting till dig. Och nej, vi ska inte slänga dem. “Mum, I’ve got something for you.” (Doesn’t even need to look at me to guess what my response would be to seeing this thing.) “And...
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Daily: 2405 – shoes
Urgent shoe shopping for Adrian today. His old shoes (on the right, in case there is any uncertainty about that) are about two sizes too small and falling apart. Apparently he now has size 38 – the...
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Daily: 2467 – measurements
Ingrid’s puberty growth spurt is tapering off, with her just a few centimeters short of my length. She’ll probably catch up in a year. Meanwhile Adrian is pulling further and further ahead of Ingrid...
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Daily: 2689 – end of school
For the first time ever we had two end-of-school ceremonies to attend. (At first Ingrid and Adrian were in the same school, and then with covid-19 there were no ceremonies for two years.) We started at...
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Daily: 2738 – Slovenia, day 1 – Viševnik
Our first full day of hiking in Slovenia. Today we climbed Viševnik, a 2000-metre peak. Which sounds like a lot, but you don’t start at sea level, of course. The actual ascent was just over 700 metres....
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Daily: 2762 – ghost footprints
There are ghost footprints on the deck that come out when it rains, from when someone sprayed their fancy retro sneakers there.
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Daily: 2779 – parent/teacher meetings
Adrian & Eric in front of Adrian’s school. Ingrid, caught in a random moment at her new school. There were parent/teacher meetings at both schools yesterday and today. Adrian wants to work on his...
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Daily: 2789 – this season’s colour is yellow
Adrian, being of the age of frequently outgrowing things, has outgrown his rain jacket. He’s also outgrown all of Ingrid’s past rain jackets that I had hoped he could inherit. So I now have 4 kids’...
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Daily: 2852 – keyboard, all lit up
I seem to have inherited a keyboard. It used to be that Ingrid and Adrian inherited Eric’s and my old electronics – laptops, phones, cameras, etc. That was when it was exciting to have any kind of...
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Daily: 2857 – Lego advent calendar
The advent calendar is up, filled with Lego. There was a lull a few years ago when Adrian wasn’t that interested in Lego, but now he’s building regularly again. His entire wish list for Christmas was...
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Daily: 2879 – we wrapped gifts
The crinkling and crackling wrapping paper was an excellent cat toy. Nysse got half a roll of cheap wrapping paper, left over from some scouting activity, all for himself. That paper was kind of ugly...
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Daily: 2917 – how can he wear them out so fast
Adrian bought this pair of socks in Amsterdam, in early November. That’s three months ago. Say he has enough socks to last him two weeks between doing laundry. He’d then have worn these six days at...
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Daily: 2992 – ant week
Every spring, for about a week or two, we get ants in the house. They wake up because it’s spring, but don’t quite find enough food outside yet, so they come in to look for more. As soon as the ground...
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