Three years have past since moving back to the States after living in Sweden for 5 1/2 years. Some things about my experience in Sweden have left indelible marks on me. I still think words in Swedish and have to translate them back to English. It’s funny when I do it as it doesn’t really [...]
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Indelible Marks
Posted in Family Life, Food, Sweden, U.S. on January 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The Art of Housewifery
Posted in Family Life, Musings, Scrapbooking and creativity, U.S. on October 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It is unfortunate that the art of housewifery, once so revered in medieval times, is so despised now. I don’t see why we can’t celebrate the achievements of women, whether they be in the corporate world or in the more intimate setting of the home. As my due date rapidly approaches, I have hunkered down in [...]
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Posted in Family Life, Travels, U.S. on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year, for President’s Day, we took a 3-hour trip to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. The area is a National Park and had a plethora of events planned for President’s Day. We really had a great time. We watched an introductory film about the importance of Valley Forge as it was the training grounds during [...]
The Insider’s Secret: What really goes on at the polls
Posted in Musings, Scrapbooking and creativity, U.S. on November 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
As a civically-minded and short-budgeted individual, I signed up to be an election inspector. I had the pleasure of being trained on the top-secret Image Cast voting machine. It had to have been top-secret, because the machine was so badly executed no one wanted to use it. In an effort to relieve the minds of [...]
Autumn in New York
Posted in Family Life, Travels, U.S. on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hope that song is playing in your head now. If not, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqPNHGkQl5M should get you in the mood. The video is about 6 minutes long, so feel free to listen to the first part and then skip to the end. Apple picking is a big activity in Westchester county. I’ve heard about it a number [...]
Maybe we should move to New Jersey
Posted in Family Life, Food, Sweden, Travels, U.S. on October 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Swedish meatballs, mmmmm, yummy! My kids have a holiday from school and so we decided to visit Ikea. When I told my boys, the youngest started shouting, “we’re going back to Sweden!!!!!!” I felt so bad when I had to explain that we are actually going to New Jersey, another state, to go to Ikea. [...]
Optimism
Posted in Family Life, Musings, U.S. on September 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sorry I haven’t posted anything exciting. I still need to do a write-up about a driving tour we took of our town. I have some great pictures from it with a lovely church that George Washington read morning prayers in during the Revolutionary War. I also need to write about our amazing trip to Boston [...]
Close encounters of the cool whip kind
Posted in Food, U.S. on August 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(Note to my readers: Yes, I’m still on blogging vacation, but I had this experience and then this title came to me. And it was too good to be forgotten. But after I post it, I’m back on vacation.) I have lived a cool whip free existence for 5 1/2 years. Not that I was [...]
Living in New York
Posted in Musings, Travels, U.S. on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve received a few emails and questions about our new life in New York. I’ve been unsure of what to post. For one thing, as I have blogged about before, since moving to New York, we’ve spent a lot of time visiting the doctor. Our frequent bouts of illness have confirmed my theory that when [...]
The Statue of Liberty
Posted in Family Life, New York travels, Travels, U.S. on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sorry it took me so long to post this. Our first foray to New York City was so much fun. Both dh and I have always wanted to see the Statue of Liberty. We were short on time and so made the Statue the focus of our adventure. While I was searching for parking places, [...]
