Tagged: famdamily

20
Apr
2016

ONE OF THOSE…DAYS-WEEKS-MONTHS

I have a huge pile of mixed emotions right now. I was really happy on Monday after WW because I finally (!) hit -15 kg*. It’s taken forever to get down this last kilo, thanks to Pie Night, Easter, Anthon Berg and my own lack of motivation. One step forward, two steps back, rinse & repeat for way too many weeks. So, it felt really good to have finally hit that milestone on my way down. 🙂 Still a long way to go, but now the sun is out and I am getting moving again. My mom called Sunday and...

17
Apr
2016

ALIVE BUT BORING

Suddenly it’s been nearly 2 weeks since I posted. How does that happen?? Anders got home from China on Friday, he leaves again super early tomorrow morning for Italy, but will be home next weekend as well. I just looked out the window and over across the way are three tall pine trees, each one with a dove perched at the highest branch, all facing into the wind. 😀 It’s quite cloudy and the wind is racing the clouds along. I was hoping for a nicer, sunshiny day today but looks as if I’m being foiled again. *sigh* …where is...

03
Apr
2016

THINGS PEOPLE SAY

A young girl, in a book that I am reading, uses the phrase “sprung clent” and then explained it like this, when her listeners don’t understand her, “They washed the floor and they dried and polished…” and one of her aunts exclaims, “Oh! they spring cleaned!” That’s what I’ve started doing and by the time I’m done (probably in time for next spring), I want to be able to say that I have sprung clent. I told the kids that we are starting Operation Deep Clean and they have to help, as they live here too and contribute to the...

03
Jan
2016

A WEEK AWAY

I finally finished reading The Goldfinch today…I’m probably the last person on the planet. It was REALLY good, and hard to put down, while I was supposed to be hanging out with family I never see. I thought about it all the time I wasn’t reading it; definite sign of a good book! It’s our book group book for January but we’re not meeting until the 21st, so I should probably write down some of my thoughts about it, since my memory is sieve-like these days. We got home last night after another grueling day of driving. We left rather...

23
Dec
2015

EK FAMILY CHRISTMAS LETTER

How in the world has it come to this? Writing a Christmas letter for 2015 when I swear I JUST WROTE THE LAST ONE?? Time flies when you’re having fun, I guess! 2015 has been full and busy. Anders had lots of traveling for work, though Liz didn’t have any, for the first time since 2007. 🙁 He went on a ski trip back in January with work colleagues, to the Czech Republic and then again with Karin in February for a week in France. For work, he went to China twice, Thailand, Italy twice, and Germany, most often for...

17
Aug
2015

THE BEST KIND OF DISTRACTION

Just like our vacation, which had both good (traveling, sightseeing, relaxing) and bad (John in the hospital) elements, this weekend was the same. My mom called Thursday with the news that my Aunt Kathie had passed away. She was diagnosed at the end of March with an aggressive brain tumor. Even knowing the outcome, I still wasn’t expecting it to happen so fast. I guess if you have to go, fast is the way to do it, but UGH. Cancer sucks. The visitation was yesterday and the funeral today. I was very sad that there was no way I could...

13
Aug
2015

LESSER

The world is a lesser place today because my Aunt Kathie is no longer in it.

09
Aug
2015

GOOD DAYS

There is only one week left of summer vacation for the kids and oh my god I can’t wait until they’re back into regular routines again. No more sleeping until noon, no more playing games all damn day, back to real life! Is it evil of me to be glad that school is starting? I really wish both kids had gotten summer jobs this summer, I feel like it would have made a big difference. Pretty soon we have to start getting serious about Martin’s future: college applications, scholarship searches, financial aid research…aagh! I can’t believe he’s going to be...

26
Jul
2015

CHERRIES, CHILLS, AND NOTHING MUCH

The kids and I climbed up the little ladder and the big ladder and effectively emptied the cherry tree tonight before dinner. It was our fourth foray up into the branches and we filled two big bowls, bringing our total of big bowls filled for this harvest to 7! I have no idea how many liters or quarts or pounds of cherries we got, but it was a lot. I brought two big containers into work last week and the five of us who are working snarfed them down. I gave away 2 big bags to neighbors and 1 big...

22
Jul
2015

HAPPY TOGETHER: CROATIA (PART 3)

Vacations, for me, aren’t just about the places we go and the things we see. They are, in a big way, about the people I am with. Family vacations are the best kind of vacations, where we get to see loved ones that live too far away for frequent contact…and that is pretty much all of my family, except my husband and kids. So, it was a REAL bummer that John wasn’t able to be with us and participate in the week. We had a good time and it was fun, but it would have been so much MORE so...

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