House#2 Progress, Endless Walks & Finally RAIN
[Photos taken 16 – 26 June 2019, posted online 20 January 2020. The weather is unstable. Very unstable.]
June was such a strange month. The sun would not stop blaring, and the weather was continually awesome, which seemed to render me unable to sleep, which made me anxious.
Nice progress was nonetheless made at House #2, particularly in getting the guest-house operational, and Finnur volunteered to drive up there to start staining the huge deck (which can only happen with zero children around).
I took a ridiculous amount of walks, as it felt impossible to just sit around at home in the evenings with all that sunlight going on. We bought a new car (!!!) after waiting patiently for a sturdy enough electric car, the kids went to their camps, and practices, and life just sort of stumbled along. (65 images total)
Sunday 16 June 2019
Easter Remains, Hair-Cuts & Spring Growth
[Photos from 22 April – 30 April 2019, posted online 13 October 2019. October seems to be speeding along faster than September did. Time is weird.]
The kids got their Icelandic chocolate Easter Eggs very shortly after we arrived home from the airport, having just returned from the UK.
Life-as-usual returned abruptly the next day, with the added dimension of hair-cuts for the kiddos, a birthday party, and kiddos going outside after dinner to play with the other kids in the street.
My ‘actual’ camera even got to go out to play a bit! (30-ish images total)
Monday 22 April 2019
UK Easter Break
[Photos from 18 – 22 April 2019, posted online 07 October 2019. Hey, it’s a brand new week!]
Early on a Thursday morning I made my way to Keflavik airport, and flew to London, arriving early enough that I could take the kids to a trampoline park in the afternoon!
The following days, Anna and I went shopping, and the two of us also journeyed to London where we met Pétur & Signý for lunch, and saw Hamilton!
On Easter Day, the kids got huge chocolate eggs, we ate fantastic food, and also took the younger kids on a walk, and to two playgrounds. Anna claimed she was too old for those outings!!
On the Monday after Easter Day, we hugged our hosts goodbye, and flew on home to Iceland, where happily the weather had turned for the better. (80-ish photos total!)
Thursday 18 April 2019
Emma’s 6th Birthday Party
[Photos taken 10 March 2019, posted online 01 September 2019. The leaves are beginning to change colors, the sky is blue, and the wind is chilly.]
Poor Emma had been too sick with the flu around her birthday in February to hold a party, and then we went to Florida, so she didn’t get a birthday party until a month after her actual birthday!
She was mostly ok with it, but certainly asked often enough when it would be that there was no chance of forgetting it completely. (10 images total)
Sunday 10 March 2019
Calm Days Between Yule and the New Year
[Photos taken on 26-30 December 2018, posted online 30 June 2019. We’ve finally got some rain and clouds, but there’s quite a bit of yellow grass around still.]
We were all on holiday between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, because there were only two working days separating the two.
We mostly took it veeeery easy, there was one family gathering, we played computer games until late at night, went swimming, I did make it to the gym a few times, and all in all it was quite nice. (15-ish images)
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Christmas Eve 2018
[Photos from 24 December 2018, posted online 23 June 2019. The still no rain for realz since early May. Also, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite came out today.]
Yule-day came and went pretty much as expected. We had my mom and one brother over for dinner, Finnur was master chef as usual, the kids managed to not go quite crazy, and I think I didn’t land my self in a need-to-finish-at-the-last-minute job like the last two previous times. All in all, a highly lovely yule!
Triple Birthday Party
[Photos from 20-22 December 2018, posted online on 13 June 2019. It’s been crazy sunny lately, and not a drop of rain for 3 weeks. Weird.]
Like in previous years, we held a joint birthday party for the three cousins, Anna, Ylfa, and Iðunn. It was just a quiet family affair, as the big event of Christmas was looming right around the corner.
The following days were the calm before Yule-day. Sort of… (25-ish images total)
Thursday 20 December 2018
Room Redecorating & Solo Parenting in December 2018
[Photos taken on 01 – 15 December 2018, posted online on 02 June 2019. We’ve had two weeks straight of gorgeous weather, and it’s not even been that cold. The north of the country is still freezing though. Quite unusual.]
Enter December, the month whose only saving grace is that the sun begins being visible for slightly longer each day towards its end, oh, and fireworks!
Anna kept pushing for a new bed, so we used the opportunity while Finnur briefly touched down between work-trips to perform the big bed-switch-a-roo between Anna’s and Emma’s rooms.
Myself and Anna found ourselves repeatedly resting at a cafe while Bjarki did gymnastics, Finnur departed for a 2-week-long stint in California, yule-lights were bought and installed on multiple fronts, food of varying quality got eaten, I went to see a Baggalútur-show, we all went to see a movie, Bjarki had his yule-tide recital, work was busy, and my brother Bjarni competed in body-building! (50-ish images total)
Saturday 01 December 2018
November 2018 – The End
[Photos taken 19 – 30 November 2018, posted online 18 May 2019. Trees are getting noticeably green. Yay for spring! ]
Finnur was gone on a weeklong trip to the UK to work in London + go see a football game in Liverpoool, so I was in charge of dinner, which is usually Finnur’s domain. Enter going out to dinner a lot!
Also, the following occurred in the span of 12 days: Bjarki visited my workplace, bikes tires got switched to studded, bedroom rearrangement plans were made, a new bed was scouted, I attended a funeral, Emma showed off gymnastics skills, there was ice skating, Finnur attended a football game and got a prized selfie, yule-tide outside-lights were scouted,
Finnur arrived home, we went out to dinner (a lot), work happened, and I shot skeets for the first time (3 out of 5 hits!) as well as participated in a murder-mystery role-playing game with my coworkers. Yup, two things struck off the bucket list in one day!
I’ve come to the conclusion that the entirety of November 2018 was nuts! (50-ish images)
Monday 19 November 2018
November 2018 – Busy Middle
[Photos from 11 – 18 November 2018, posted online 16 May 2019. If I can keep focus.]
As I look back on it, these 8 days of November were kind of crazy busy.
We went to the theater, went ice-skating, homework was a thing, teeth got adjusted, a sewing club was hosted, my dad & Co came for dinner, I lifted, Bjarki competed (and won!) in gymnastics, Finnur took off for the UK (with dad & Co), and I assembled Ikea furniture for my brother & Co. Yikes! (28 images total)
Sunday 11 November 2018
