One of the many joys of parenthood (and I’m very tempted to write ‘joys’ and be all sarcastic here, but I’m trying not to because it’s borderline endearing) is noticing eerily familiar behavior in one’s offspring. Of course, these manifest to various degrees, but I think Finnur and I both agree that Anna takes aRead more
No blogging yesterday – it was too plain a day, with some much needed Rest-and-Relaxation, a Grocery-Run, Gym-Class, and Managing-an-Exhausted-Anna. Today was more out and about. I met up with my skin doctor of many years this morning, and he told me that birth marks tend to look more feisty when women are pregnant, andRead more
This almost-done Sunday has been veeeery busy! But happy busy, not bad busy. 🙂 We attended three ‘events’ today: 1) Anna had a swim meet in the morning, 2) a cousin celebrated turning 5 years old, and 3) we visited Adda and Halli, who were sorely neglected this past November, which seemed to all butRead more
Bjarki woke up this morning feeling a lot more energetic than yesterday, and immediately asked “Can I go to the Yuletide-ball today?”. I didn’t have the heart to say no, figuring that a two hour trip out of the house might do everybody a world of good.
Him and me took it easy this morning though, lounged in bed with our good friend YouTube, while Anna was off watching Spirited Away in her final English class of this season. We are thankful for good friends who were kind enough to come pick her up for class, and then drop her off afterwards! 🙂
We arrived at the ball around 2 pm, where a number of people had already arrived, and were walking around the Christmas tree led in song by a guy with a guitar and lyrics on his iPad. (You need to click on the Read more to see all the pics.)
People walking around the tree, and singing classic Christmas songs.
Anna and Bjarki with their cousin Þórarinn Víkingur (son of Steinunn, sister of Finnur) who goes to the same daycare as Bjarki.
At 17:30 today, our internet service provider found we’d hit our limit for ‘foreign internet’ this month and started throttling our connection to the world. Usually they’d just slap a charge on us and add 10 GB, but I guess it was too close to the end of the month for that? Or so IRead more
Bjarki’s health continues to not be excellent. He woke up pretty lethargic, coughing, and with a leaky nose. Once we’d seen Anna off, I took his temperature which was normal though. After reading him a book in my bed I shut my eyes for a bit, and he just lay there, not reading or anything,Read more
Just returned from taking Bjarki to the eye-doctor (ophthalmologist). She did some initial tests and decided she wanted to do a full measurement, so he got the ‘lovely’ eye-drops that dilate the pupils, and take 20-30 mins to take full effect. Thankfully there was a nice assortment of children’s books in the waiting room, so we readRead more
After a rather unfortunate beginning to the day, things took a turn for the better around lunchtime. The families of all the 56 fourth graders had been summoned to the school at lunchtime, for a little ‘get-together’ to enjoy the fruits of their labor. The labor involved learning about Japan for the past few weeks,Read more
This was to have been a glorious rest-and-recuperation morning. But alas, the Universe had other ideas. Anna was already at school, and Bjarki and I were buckled into the car, about to take him to daycare when… the car refused to start. Now, I’d noticed that starting had become increasingly less energetic over the past fewRead more
If there’s one thing I worry about with regards to having a kid at my ‘advanced maternal age‘, it’s not being able to deal with the sleep-deprivation as well as in my younger years. Heck, I do really badly already, and the kid’s not even here! Why so sleep-deprived already? Well, I woke up fromRead more