Quick recap of the day (with Finnur still gallivanting around in California – lucky bugger!) Handed the kids over to Finnur’s parents at noon-time. They are really saving my arse here, because I’m basically an incompetent parent at the moment except in very short bursts. Went and got a proper lunch. Went home, straight toRead more
My no-fun cold (flu?) keeps chugging along. Yesterday was better than the day before, in that resting for a bit resulted in enough energy to do little things like laundry, and finally putting Christmas lights up in Anna’s window. Oh, and tackling both kids (and making dinner and cleaning up) last night. After dinner lastRead more
It was a huge relief only having Anna at home last night, and this morning, while Bjarki hung out with his grandparents. Bjarki is a darling and all, but he’s like this crazy ball of energy, that sometimes oscillates in moods at the drop of a hat, and requires a lot of attention. Anna onRead more
Whine! I’m sick with a nasty head cold. Got three hours of consecutive sleep last night and then I woke up Every Single Hour due to general miserableness until it was time to get up at 7 am. I did try to keep the growling to a minimum when getting the kids out the doorRead more
Today was a bit of a mixed bag. On the plus side, I finally got my motherly act together and made some yuletide cookies with Anna using the bottom recipe here. The cookies came out ok, except that I think I sort of overbaked most of them, and they’re on the crunchier side. The downsideRead more
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