Without really planning to, I’ve become a Stay At Home Mom, affectionately known as SAHM on the internets. This is a much less prestigious position than the Work At Home Mom (WAHM), which again, is usually deemed less prestigious than just being a Working Mom. I am painfully aware that I’m now occupying the lowestRead more
[Written 25 October 2012]
In my ‘ideal world’ I bring out the big camera with the fun 50 mm lens on it every month and take pictures of the kids. In reality, this may happen twice per year. One such instance was late one lovely Sunday. Enjoy the kiddie pics!
Bjarki practicing his football skills, with obligatory tongue sticking out.
Making faces…
They have quite a repertoire…
Hmmm, it’s now 12 October and the most recent event I blogged about happened on 15 September. I guess that means I should go stay in the naughty corner for bad bloggers, but I have excuses! A lot! Well, mostly just one. Remember that job of mine? That I’m no longer doing? Teaching at theRead more
[Written 12 October 2012]
This morning, Finnur and I headed to the diagnostic department at the women’s wing of the main hospital for the 20 week ultrasound. We were greeted by a seasoned ultrasound pro, as well as a student, and for the next twenty minutes or so, all major body parts, as well as individual organs were found, assessed, and accounted for. To make a long story short, everything looked fine and we were given the green light.
Of course we left with a few pictures in tow: 🙂
Here we have the classic ‘I’m sucking my thumb’ picture. 🙂
The underside of a foot, with toes and all. 🙂
The slightly Tim Burton-esque ‘You can see my pupil lens (eye-stone, augasteinn), and some of my teeth!’ There’s hand under the chin.
Of course we asked about the sex (or well, Finnur did. I wasn’t coherent enough to remember!) and it’s a….
[Written 15 October 2012]
My uncle and his wife went on a childless trip for a few days, and we agreed to entertain their younger cub for a Sunday afternoon to give the other caretakers a bit of a break.
Before our little guest arrived, Anna decided to make coconut-balls (kókoskúlur) from a recipe she got from a friend the day before. (Oh, and during an epically productive day the day before that, Anna got her hair cut short to make combing it easier.)
Our visitor hanging out on one of the swings while the two siblings dig into the sand.
[Written 18 October 2012] Out of respect for harried parents who prefer to use their 5 weeks of vacation in large solid clumps, as opposed to a day here and there, the daycare and school in our neighborhood try to coordinate staff-days. The first such day this school year was this past Friday 28 September,Read more
[Written 15 October 2012] Just before Anna went to bed, I summoned her to free her arm from the splint she’d been wearing for two weeks. It took a while to cut through all the layers of cotton and gauze, but we got there in the end. There was a clear difference in muscle massRead more
[Written 15 October 2012] On this pretty Sunday the whole family got wrangled into a car and taken on a 5 minute drive to Ikea. The objective: Buy more plastic buckets for Bjarki’s room, and try and find some furniture for Anna’s room that would increase her display and storage space, and stem the flowRead more
[Written 14 October 2012] Just thought I’d post a couple of pictures from Bjarki’s ‘Sport-School‘. He started attending one on the west side of town a few months after we moved to Iceland to help with his (preemie-related?) unsure gross motor skills, and since he’s really enjoyed it, we’ve kept attending ever since. Sadly itRead more
[Written 12 October 2012]
Last year, when I was still in a mood to say ‘yes’ to most everything, I agreed to be on the ‘Program Committee‘ of the 27th NORDUnet Conference, to be held in Oslo on 18-20 September 2012, serving as the ‘Icelandic delegate’. (NORDUnet is: “a joint collaboration by the 5 Nordic National Research and Education Networks in Denmark (Forskningsnettet), Finland (Funet), Iceland (RHnet), Norway (Uninett) and Sweden (SUNET) and operates a world-class Nordic and International network and eInfrastructure service for the Nordic research and educational community.”)
I am of course pretty clueless about both networks and eInfrastructure, but probably know more than the average Joanne, so I figured I’d say yes and see what would happen. Mostly I got to meet interesting and pretty cool people, read over a few abstracts, but most importantly, travel for free twice to Oslo, and once to Copenhagen, neither of which I’d ever visited before!
Anyway, fast forward a year from saying yes, and the conference itself was about to begin. One of my duties as an organizer was to ‘chair’ a couple of sessions (The Data Deluge, and Campus Issues 1) so to Oslo I went. (Being a ‘chair’ means you introduce the next speaker, and then watch the clock and tell them when time is running out. That’s it.)
Monday 17 September 2012
For a span of 24 hours Finnur was in England and I was in Norway, and the kids were in Iceland! Thank goodness for grandparents!! 🙂