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
Warning: Discussion of stomach bugs, i.e. vomiting. This past night was of the ‘This Too Shall Pass‘-chanting variety. After Bjarki vomited at the dinner table, I put him to sleep in our bed, intending to follow him there shortly. After everybody had left, and Anna was in bed, I had a change of mind andRead more
Bjarki started practicing gymnastics once per week with Gerpla late this fall, after hanging out on a wait-list for over a year. I think he’s only attended four sessions so far, but that was apparently enough to attend Gerpla’s “Advent Meet” – his first meet ever. His slot was between 10 am and 11:30 am this morning, so Finnur’s parents dropped the kids off by the sports center shortly before the hoopla was supposed to start. (Click on the link below the first picture to see more pics and videos).
This meet slot was apparently only for 5 year olds. There were three boy groups and five girl groups, and each group took turns performing a particular set of exercises.
Yes, ok, I’ll admit it. I’m getting deathly bored on my self-imposed couch-rest today to appease my pelvis/pelvic area which is threatening to kick up a fuss again. (Also, I keep pulling muscles when bending down clumsily or whatnot, which really isn’t helping… but that’s perhaps a little TMI…?) Anyway, my last resort, shy ofRead more
This Saturday morning I decided to bring the ‘big’ camera to Bjarki’s sports/athletics-school, where I took lots of pictures (you have to click on the ‘Read the rest of this entry‘ to see all of them).
First I had to drop Anna off at her English school though, which meant that Bjarki and I were out and about way too early for his session. The only thing to do: stop by the local bakery and buy some bread and a ‘healthy’ (cough, cough) snack to munch on for a bit.
Bjarki and the daycare-dog at the bakery, drinking milk and eating something not-so-healthy-but-really-really-yummy!
The sporty-school people had set up a course using almost the entire available floor-space today – usually they have the gray partition down and only use half of it. Daycare-doggy of course got to tag along inside.
Finnur took off today to remind his co-workers in California of his existence. Pretty much exactly when he was about to board the plane to Seattle, I went to fetch Bjarki from daycare. When I arrived, it transpired that it was Bjarki’s turn to ‘dog-sit’ the stuffed dog that lives in his daycare-room, that apparentlyRead more
This week has crept by pretty quietly. I began Monday by meeting my midwife, who confirmed that my blood-work had come back fine, and that I appeared to have dodged the gestational diabetes bullet yet again. Phew! Anna’s school had a staff-organizational-day that day, so the two of us just hung out at home forRead more
[Written on Thanksgiving Day, 22 November 2012 – Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! :)]
Nobody can live in the USA for an extended amount of time, and not grow to appreciate, and even love, Thanksgiving! It’s like Christmas, but without the stress of presents! 🙂
For us it was always a great opportunity to hang out with friends, and we’re very fortunate in that we belong to a group of ex-CA-ans who like to get together for the occasion. (This is basically the same group of people we sometimes went camping with in CA…)
Previous ‘Thanksgivings in Iceland’ here: 2010 at Lára’s and 2011 at Soffía’s.
This year, Lára and Halldór kindly offered to host again (not everybody can accommodate such a large group easily – we can really only do it during summer time when we can have people outside), and everybody signed up to bring something for the communal feast.
Guðrún working on the dessert, Finnur in charge of the gravy, and Halldór carving one of two turkeys.