Tagged: holidaze

01
May
2010

MIND GAMES

Happy May Day! It’s hard to believe it is already the first day of the fifth month of the year. Spring is fully sprung and the zillion shades of neon green greet my wondering eyes wherever they wander. All the grass is new and the old winter residue and beigeness of last year’s growth has been covered over completely now by the new growth. Yesterday was Walpurgis Eve and we celebrated, as we usually do, with our friends Mats & Annelott at a bonfire held in their overgrown back acre, with several other couples and 3 dogs, one a new...

03
Apr
2010

I HOPE MY KIDS NEVER GET TOO OLD FOR THIS STUFF

This has been an altogether lovely week leading up to Easter. Lots of sunshine and a wonderful dog in the house to love on. The kids were home all last week so they went out walking and playing with London several times a day in the sunshine and then we went for a long walk in the early evenings. Tiny, tight green buds are starting to show on the tips of every branch. Easter flowers are blooming: crocus, daffodil, snowdrops, wood anemone. The furled knives of tulip leaves have stretched up tall in gardens all over the village. Tractors are...

31
Mar
2010

PASS THE CHOCOLATE

I’m a little stressed out about our 4-week vacation this summer to the States and I haven’t even done anything yet but book the flights. You would think that 4 weeks is enough time to fit in everything and everyone, right? But I’m beginning to believe that while it may be possible, it won’t be RESTFUL. I don’t want to come home from my vacation needing another vacation. The list of people we want to see is growing: my mom (of course), my brother and his wife, my sister and her family, my grandmother, my aunt & uncle and cousins...

01
Jan
2010

RETROSPECTIVE

A houseful of visitors, a couple of months worth of parties, and a massive head cold left me with little time to update the past few days. I didn’t get my usual year retrospective up before the year actually turned, but that seems to be par for the course for how 2009 went for me. Last night, around the table with our good friends, we each recounted the low point and the high point that the passing year had held for us. One friend recounted the fear and helplessness of watching her best friend’s pregnancy head into complications. One talked...

29
Dec
2009

REPLETE

I’ve been filling up. Filling up with lovely days and family goodness and the stupified silence of children stunned by the awesomeness of their Christmas presents. Filling up with cookies and turkey sandwiches and clementines and love. Too busy to sit down and write, too busy to take a moment because all the moments are taken: real life, days present and future and full. Friday is a full moon, but it’s nearly there now. Last night it was shining clear and crystal down on the sugar frosting sifted across the grass, the hedge, the yard. I’ve not slept well the...

24
Dec
2009

WHAT A BRIGHT TIME, IT’S THE RIGHT TIME!

Sleeping in, Finished a great book, house spotless, and refrigerator stuffed with all the trimmings for a complete Swedish julbord and ready to go! Anders’ parents got here just after 3 p.m. and the kids watched Kalle Anka until Karin and I left to pick up John & Simone at the airport (on time! smooth sailing!). There is still a ton of snow and there are lovely advent lights in stars in the windows of every house. We had a wonderful evening stuffing ourselves silly on all the good food that Anders and his mom had prepared and then (finally!...

23
Dec
2009

LAME DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE UPDATE

Almost ready. The snow is melting, though we still have a ton here in our village due to the fact that we live in a precipitation pocket where it’s always colder or rainier or snowier than anywhere else in Skåne. Seeing black wet roads and grey/black sludge edges makes me sad because everything was absolutely COVERED with white just 2 days ago. *sigh* …I’ve been told more snow is on the way; hope that is true. I have fallen down on the cookie job this year, but I don’t care. It’s just as well. I’ve already gained a ton of...

19
Dec
2009

THERE’S NO FEELING LIKE SNOW FALLING

It’s been snowing all day, going from those fat & floaty puffed-up snowdrops; you know, the showy kind that turn into hyperspace when you’re in the car at night and turn on the brights for a second, to the tiny crystal glitterbits just being flung about by the wind. We have 4-5 inches, not counting all the drifts from the blowing winter breezes and no end in sight. Already I’m sure that the prediction about a white Christmas for the first time in 10 years will come true: there is so much snow already down that even if it abruptly...

15
Dec
2009

BITS OF TID

There were some topics gnawing at me earlier but they have left off and moved on. Instead you get this: bits! Would it be better with bullets? Does it sound weird to say just bullets instead of bulletPOINTS? Did you understand me anyway or do I do too many PowerPoint presentations at work? *** We have 1 present left to purchase for the kids, and Karin has 1 present left to purchase for her grandparents, and we have 1 birthday present left to purchase for Anders’ mom. I don’t know if Anders is done with his shopping for me. He...

09
Dec
2009

COILED

Funny how the year is winding down but we are winding up. I am wound up! The older I get, the faster it goes. And you know what? It’s not like I ever really wind down. I think maybe I’ll just keep on winding tighter and tighter until the end when I suddenly snap and go whizzing right out of the atmosphere, like the rubber bands I used to shoot down the hallway for my cat. The nice thing about being wound up is that a great deal of it is with anticipation. There’s so much to look forward to:...

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