Tagged: goodthings

04
Jan
2026

JINGLE JINGLE, PART THE SECOND*

As usual, I was living in the moment and didn’t take nearly enough photos of our time in the States, but I was apparently better than the rest of my family. Martin says he only took 2 photos the entire time, haha. Here’s the photo dump from our holidays! Essie, Danely, and Karin decorating cookies Karin and Martin decorating cookies Karin outdoes herself with a cookie too pretty to eat! Anders, Essie, Karin, Grandma Linda, and Martin – ready to open presents Danely is also ready to open presents The elusive Mr Bryce Me and my mom (who is not...

03
Jan
2026

RESOLUTIONS, RELAXING, AND REMINISCING

I’ve been musing about new year’s resolutions and trying to decide if I want to do something. I really enjoyed the years that I had done a once-a-month resolution (5Ks, art, poetry), but I don’t really have any good ideas. I supposed I could do art every month again, since it’s been a few years. Or maybe I will do write a letter every month this year! That’s a good idea, I think! I might even make it write-at-least-1-letter every month for 2026. We got home from North Carolina yesterday after a long day of traveling. We got up a...

31
Dec
2025

RETROSPECTIVE

a! I remembered! I was afraid I would forget and not remember to write my year-end retrospective until I got home and that would mean it would actually have been written in the new year. I think it’s happened once or maybe twice before but I’d much rather have it be my last post of the year. We are at my sister’s place in North Carolina, spending the holidays with her and her family, and my mom. It’s 10 days total and we have 1.5 days left, as we fly home on January 1st. We will actually arrive back in...

20
Dec
2025

EK FAMILY CHRISTMAS LETTER 2025

2025 has been a lot, especially for Liz, and she is glad we have nearly reached the end of it. But there were lots of good things throughout the year as well! Karin spent a week in Canazei in January working for LionAlpin, and she and Anders went back in March for a week of skiing as well. In March, Liz headed to N. Carolina to stay for 4 weeks with Sarah and help with getting mom moved in to Sarah’s house. John arrived for the second 2 weeks of her stay and they managed to get mom’s house nearly...

16
Dec
2025

JINGLE JINGLE, PART THE FIRST

In the spirit of trying to write as many posts as possible this year (and next!), here I am. It’s been a busy day in a busy week. Since I got home just before 5 pm I have tidied up, emptied the dishwasher, refilled it, handwashed a pile of dishes, filled in appointments and activities in my 2026 calendars, eaten dinner, listened to Discover Weekly and added a bunch of new music to my playlist, read a couple of newsletters (am behind by a day), and placed my new mousepad (gaming pad, hahahaha) by the keyboard. Still have to install...

05
Dec
2025

DECK THE HALLS WITH STRESS AND TINSEL

Because we will be away this year for Christmas we are not getting a tree. Putting up a tree basically requires a week’s worth of work: a whole day to go out to the Christmas tree farm which is 40 minutes away, tramping out into the woods to find the perfect tree, cutting it down, carrying it back to the car. Then Anders has to tie it to the roof (something I can’t help much with), then driving home and getting it off the car and on to the porch where it usually sits for 24 hours to give bugs...

23
Nov
2025

GOBBLE GOBBLE

We had our Friendsgiving dinner last night and it was lovely. I think it was less chaotic due to the fact that we were only 20 people. We were missing 9 from our usual crowd, and it just made it nice and calm and really easy to talk to everyone throughout the course of the evening. Anders cooked one turkey on Friday and 2 turkeys plus 2 turkey breasts yesterday but I think if we manage to keep it around 20 people next year, we could actually get down to just the 2+2 and skip that 3rd or (eek) 4th...

11
Nov
2025

CELEBRATION IS GRATITUDE IN ACTION

I was at the skin doctor today who examined my scalp and gave me good news: There is no sign of any terminal hair loss disease or condition and my hair is regrowing, my hair follicles are recovered and looking great, and now it’s just a matter of patience waiting for my hair to regrow. Considering that hair grows at approximately the rate of snail speed, it’s gonna be awhile. But obviously, the universe has a pressing need to teach me patience and since Karin is grown up and now longer holding that position, hair regrowth it is! After not...

26
Oct
2025

GLAMOUR AT THE GALA

Yesterday, I spent just over an hour ordering Christmas gifts from various websites. One of them wouldn’t accept my card the first time, and I tried again until it did (since I knew there was nothing wrong with the card and figured it was just a glitch). Right as I was finishing up getting ready to head out the door to the Halloween party I got a text message from our bank saying there was suspicious activity on my account and asking me to call immediately. So I did, and found they had put a block on my card until...

18
Oct
2025

KRIMSKRAMS!

The little girl across the street, who must be 5-6 years old by now (they moved in when her mom was pregnant with her), is sitting behind a little white play table that her dad carried out for her, at the end of the walkway in front of their house. She has a little cloth on the table and various things displayed both on the table and on another cloth next to her on the street. She’s been out there for at least an hour, on a sunny, chilly, beautiful fall Saturday morning. She’s bundled up in a winter coat...

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