December Without Finnur
[Photos from 02-13 December 2015, posted on 7 February 2016. Still on the couch.]
Finnur was in California, visiting his work mother-ship, from 27 November to 14 December. That span covers three weekends. Ayayay!
I’m collecting the photos I took during the first half of December here. I was hunkered down in survival mode, but still stuff happened. Crazy! (41 images total)
Thursday 3 December 2015
Emma loves mixing colors, and painting.
Swim goggles, and a banana. What’s next?
Friday 4 December 2016
It was fitting that while Finnur was enjoying lovely California, Iceland froze over, as demonstrated by our drainpipe.
Yes, the whole thing was covered in ice.
I managed to whack a piece off, but it was not easy. The ice was thick!
Snoooow.
Looking up the street.
Saturday 5 December 2015
We began the day by watching the trash collectors outside.
Emma playing with her duplo train.
Nökkvi and Jóhanna came for dinner with the kiddos. It was fun!
Chicken pasta in red sauce. It’s one of those dishes I can cook with my spine (no brain involvement needed).
Mr. Cutie-Pie.
Nökkvi the Odd, and his middle offspring.
I believe my grandmother made this doll. It still survives. Somehow.
Words fail.
Cheerful people!
Sunday 6 December 2015
Attending our cousin’s Dagur Ari’s 8 year old birthday. Yay!
The outside, still frozen.
Monday 7 December 2015
Anna, the clumsy, managed to tumble down a stair or two as we were leaving the birthday party on Sunday. On Monday morning, I took her to the ER to have her foot checked.
Foot x-ray. No obvious breakage, and even if the most suspicious spot was a fracture, there was nothing to do but wait for it to heal on its own.
We didn’t come home from the ER until almost 2 pm, so there was no use in going to work for me. Somehow I ended up playing Ticket to Ride with Bjarki (blue), and he did remarkably well. I won though, because I’m evil like that.
Bjarki, with all the destination cards he completed.
His destination cards. He got really lucky!
Wednesday 9 December 2015
Finnur’s parents helped me out with shuttling the kiddos to after-school activities, so we ended up at their place eating waffles in the late afternoon. Yum!
Bjarki practicing head-stands. I think he’s the furthest to the left.
Thursday 10 December 2016
Me at work, soldering enough to make up for years of not soldering. This is taken during day two of “Innovation days”. There was a demo in the evening, which was great fun (although I’m still pissed at myself for not practicing), but I sure was tired afterwards.
Saturday 12 December 2105
The kiddos, around lunchtime on Saturday. This was going to be a very busy day.
Emma likes crowns, and asks us to make them regularly.
Bjarki explaining his creation to me.
Emergency! Secret! Bullets and bow!
It’s a good thing Anna still remembers how to make these, because I sure don’t!
Next up, a make-up guitar lesson, because the teacher had to cancel his lesson in the previous week.
From there we went to the city library. They have a playroom. Yay!
The playroom even has costumes!
Next up: The cafe diagonally across from the library. As usual!
We discovered the cafe has a toy box, which Emma promptly commandeered. We spent quite a bit of time in there.
At home I went outside and grilled hamburgers for dinner at -7C/19F. Brrrr…
We called dad…
And, just to finish off the day, I went to a 40 year old birthday party! The party was fun, but I had to leave fairly early. Oh well.
Some lovely ladies!
Sunday 13 December 2015
The big project of the day was installing the outside Christmas lights to match the other half of the house. Mission accomplished! Oh, and we tidied up a bit too. Finnur would be arriving early the next morning.
