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.
We got our first proper snowfall yesterday, and it’s finally cold enough outside for the snow to stick around for a bit. 🙂 Not surprisingly, Anna spent all of yesterday out sledding, even though the grass is only just barely covered with snow. Today, the kids went out again, this time with a friend: UPDATE!Read more
[WARNING: This post mentions blood-draws, and lots of them. Don’t read if squeamish!!] This morning I went into the hospital to undergo a ‘blood glucose tolerance test‘, which screens for pregnancy-induced diabetes (meðgöngusykursýki). The test consists of three blood-draws, spaced an hour apart. One shows up at 8 am in the morning having fasted fromRead more
We started re-arranging Anna’s room last 23 September, by adding a new desk, and shuffling the other furniture around. Then nothing much happened until a month later, when I was evil, and made Anna help me sort through all her stuff during her two days of winter break from school. The next day I madeRead more
Back in late August I took the first stab at organizing Bjarki’s stuff in his room. One important part of this organizing was to label his toy buckets so that it would be easier to find toys and tidy up. Having all the time in the world, I decided to make my own labels forRead more
Belonging to a ‘sewing club’ (eat good food and chat once per month or so) of Icelandic women in California went a long ways towards saving my sanity at times while at school. I still remember walking into ‘a real home’ for the first time in a month, after only hanging out in student housingRead more
This post is just to remind myself NOT to go on multiple-hour-long shopping trips in the next few months. After spending about 4 hours on my feet last Thursday, a rather central part of my body (the front-most part of my pelvis) staged a mutiny, and now I’m walking around slowly like an old ladyRead more
Today was the annual Christmas Photo Session. This year I had two flashes going, one on my camera, and one behind a white umbrella on the right, and we used our dark blue fleece blanket as backdrop. It’s the same blanket that we used when Bjarki was small (black and white images, in color). Here are some of the images from today (click on the link below the top one to see the rest):
My pretties. 🙂
I spent yesterday visiting various shops, getting small bits and pieces that had slipped under my radar, but popped up again when I wrote down the epic list of stuff to do for the house. I’m talking about things like felt floor-protectors to put under chairs, more plastic bins, hangers, small light fixtures, etc… The biggestRead more