Ice Skating With Adda and Kids
[Photos from 29 December 2015, posted 25 January 2016. Grass still visible under hail from this morning. Blue-ish skies.]
Adda called during the holiday and asked if we were up for some ice skating. I said yes, and we met up, and had a good time! (9 images total)
Daycare was open for three days between Christmas and New Year’s, and we took Emma there every day, because we’re lazy. That said, she generally arrived very late, around 11 am, after spending the morning frolicking in front of the computer, watching her favorite shows. This photo was taken at 11:11 as I was returning from dropping Emma off at daycare.
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.
Thanksgiving 2015
[Photos from 28 November 2015, posted online 21 March 2016. The thaw helps with blogging apparently…]
No sooner had Finnur left for California, when some of the ex-Californians got together to celebrate Thanksgiving! Oh, and it also SNOWED a ton overnight! (20 images total, HERE ARE ALL THE PHOTOS)
Very thankful ex-Californians about to eat a lot of great food.
Filling in the November 2015 Hole
[Photos from 1 to 26 (!!!) November 2015, posted online on 16 March 2016. This is what guilt looks like!]
This past autumn somehow, slowly but surely, crushed me.
By the time the kids were taken care of by 9 pm, I was totally done for, and blogging (which I enjoy, darnit!) rarely happened. Documenting our busy summer months took half of forever, so when I looked back over the year in January, I discovered I’d posted ZERO things from November. That hasn’t happened in years…
Since November (and the autumn in general) still taunts me, I’m going to try and give it a little love. I hope you bear with me! (42 images total)
Sunday 1 November 2015
Anna wearing a fun mask her grandparents bought on one of their recent travels.
Airport, Dinner, Art (FFF-style), and Kids
[Photos from 01 to 05 October 2015, posted online 26 March 2016. Yup, that’s the wrong year.]
My digging into the photo-vaults continues. This time it’s October 2015.
This post has me driving my mom to the airport, us visiting friends for dinner, me going downtown to look at some art and hanging out at a new cafe, and the kids being cute. (27 images total)
Thursday 01 October 2015
Dropping mom off at the airport, as she goes to visit the Bournemouth-ers.
Tina & Justin: The Golden Circle
[Photos from 16 AUGUST 2015, posted on 3 November 2015. That’s bewildering!]
The initial plan for day two of Tina and Justin’s stay in Iceland, was for all of us to go visit the Golden Circle (Þingvellir, Gullfoss, Geysir), in two cars. Then we realized our lovely electric car would never make it there and back again on one charge, so the plan changed to me and Anna taking Tina and Justin on a road trip, while Finnur oversaw the little ones.
Off we went! (48 images total)
Stop #1: Thingvellir. This outlook post is new-ish, I’d at least never gone there, although I’d seen people standing on it from afar.
Tina and Justin Visit Iceland
[Photos from 15 AUGUST 2015, put online 1 November 2015. Half the way through August, finally!!]
Our good friend, Tina, and her son, Justin, came to stay with us for a few days. They landed on Saturday, hung out with us that weekend, then took Anna on a trip along the south coast of Iceland for a couple of days, before spending a somewhat quiet Wednesday in the city, and then they left early Thursday morning.
We kept the Saturday fairly low key, except we went to the Museum of Old Houses (Árbæjarsafn) and then hung out in a swimming pool (Lágafellslaug). (8 images total)
The gang, minus me.