staying home

No point in going out to celebrate New Year’s when we can’t eat out past 8 PM. I don’t know about you, but I really can’t wait to see the back of this car-crash of a year. Again. And in the meantime, while we are waiting on 2022 to arrive, here are five easy, yet […]

4 years ago

Wondering what the heck to do with yourself this rainy weekend? You’ve watched another episode of Netflix, you have exercised within your five-kilometre radius (if you could brave the weather), and you might have even baked something. Anyway, now you have done all those, and you are finding yourself wondering what else you can fill […]

5 years ago

Hard as it is to believe, we have actually homeschooled (again) for an entire semester, and the February midterm is now upon us. So in other words, we are facing into a week where we not only have to try to keep the kids occupied without Seesaw and Mathseeds to help us, but on top […]

5 years ago

Hur mår ni? I am not going to brag, but being Norwegian, my Swedish is actually pretty decent. Let it be said, though, that Norwegian and Swedish (and Danish too) are very similar in the first place, and more like different dialects of of the same language than totally different languages altogether. However, should you […]

5 years ago

I don’t know how my kids never starved to death back when they were still in school during the day. I mean; judging by how flipping hungry they are these days, I don’t know how just one packed lunch managed to sustain them during a school day. Honestly. I feel like I am doing little […]

5 years ago

In Norway, where I come from, kids spend a lot of time outdoors. Like – a lot. Even in the middle of winter – when the temperatures are well below freezing – schools and creches ask that children come in dressed in layers and outdoor gear so that they can spend as much of the […]

5 years ago