[Happened and blogged on 31 December 2014.] This is shaping up to be an unusual New Year’s Eve, particularly for me (Hrefna) and Emma. Emma has been unwell all day, with a temperature of 39.0°C/102.2°F, and unhappily teething. Therefore, she’s not fit for a party. Since the other two kiddos are fighting fit, Finnur took them toRead more
[This happened earlier tonight, on 28 December 2014. Try not to faint.]
We attended a dinner party earlier this evening. When we left the party, we found, much to our surprise, that our car had slid, yes, SLID, almost all the way onto an adjacent car.
Yes, we’d parked it on a slight sideways incline, sans studded tires, on top of a thick sheet of bumpy ice. Little did we suspect that the wind and ice and gravity would conspire to push the car until it hit actual ground, which thankfully coincided with the side-mirror all but touching (maybe touching?) the other car.
Our hosts helped us track the owner of the other car down, and he successfully managed to back his car out of the tight spot, veeeeery sloooooowly, without incident. Phew! (4 images total)
Manly men checking out the near-collision situation.
[Photos from 26 December, written up on 30 December 2014. Just for kicks.]
The big kids have been overdosing on computer time over the holidays, so every now and then we make them go outside, often much to their consternation. Just to be super evil we make them take Emma out too, but she usually only lasts for some 10 minutes (or until her hands get cold or she looses her footing).
Here is an example of the beginning of an outing. (3 images total)
Anna throwing snow at Bjarki. I guess one needs to find some fun in the misery of being outside in the cold.
[These events happened on 25 December, and are being blogged on 27 December 2014. Speedy!]
Christmas Day arose with copious amounts of pretty snow. The kids were up and at it early as usual, but we waited until we’d all had breakfast to open Anna’s presents. (26 images total)
Anna’s carrot cake that she decorated herself! Being 11 brings perks!
[Events of the esteemed 24th of December were chronicled on the less esteemed 27th of December, of the same year. We cheer! ]
Christmas finally arrived!! And not a moment to soon according to our brood. They survived the day pretty well, it’s awesome being able to send them (read: Bjarki) out to play with friends where they are less likely to have meltdowns. Because. Presents!! (16 images total)
Our yuletide-tree, along with presents, and photos from the cards we’d received. Thank you all who sent cards!! The tree was admittedly a little squished this year because we’d added a shelving unit to that wall, but I think it came out ok.
Gleðileg jól/hamingusama sólstöðuhátíð/njótið alls í botn! 🙂Read more
[Occurred on 20 December 2014, blogged on 04 March 2015. The cows want electric blankets.]
We attended a birthday party for Steinunn and Einar’s son, some 15 minutes before Christmas, ish.
It was lovely, but not a lot of photos were taken (tsk, tsk). Here are a few though: (6 images total)
Busy kitchen area.
[Photos from 16-19 December 2014, blogged on 4 March 2015. Shhh…]
It’s been a stormy winter par excellence. There’s a wacky Icelandic word for this type of weather: ‘umhleypingasamt’, which Google translate cutely translates as ‘unstable’, although a direct translation would be something like “prone to running around a lot, and switching directions”.
After yet another deluge of snow, I jumped outside and took a few photos. (7 images total)
16 December: The decorated house. The lights got to stay up for quite a while, the multicolored lights came down in early February, while the white lights came down on 28 February!
[Birthday party happened on 14 December 2014, but is being blogged on 22 February 2015. Birthdays don’t expire!]
We cut down on the stress by combining three family late-year birthday-parties into one, with our Anna being one of the celebrated ones. The other two slightly-older-ones were my brother Nökkvi’s girls. (20 images total)
Anna’s now so big that she decorated her own birthday cake. I like this development!
[Not that it matters, but this image was snapped on 11 Dec 2014.] hrefna77, that’s me. 🙂Read more