Independence Day

Iceland’s Independence Day was on a Monday this year, and the weather wasn’t quite sure if it was raining, or windy, or sorta ok.  We spent the first part of the day at home, with the big kids mostly on the computer (they’ve discovered we now have Netflix on the TV…) while I napped with Emma here and there.

Shortly after 3 pm we finally made it out the door, and headed to our town’s Independence Day Celebration.  We got a parking space not too far away, and walked over to Rútstún.

Looking over the festival area.

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The National Museum

The big kids spent the night at Adda and Halli’s, and loooved it.  I looooved not having to deal with them this morning, because Emma went to sleep super late, I went to bed even later, Emma woke up way too many times, and then was wide awake by 7 am.  To add insult to sleep-deprived injury, she then only took a short nap around 9 am, waking me up from my slumber at some horrendous sleep-cycle point, which left me more tired than before the nap.

Boohoo.

Anyway.  I ate lunch (and dark chocolate) and then went and picked the kids up at 1 pm.  We then drove to the National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafnið) where we met up with Guðrún and Bragi and strolled around.  It’s one of those museums I’ve driven past a thousand times, I’ve visited the cafe there a few times, but not actually entered since I was a wee girl.  (Entering costs money.)

The museum was surprisingly beautiful, and had a lot of interesting things.  I’ll have to visit someday without the kids to really get a good look at it though!

Bjarki trying on some serious battle gear in the kiddie room.

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Outdoor Toy Chest

We have a collection of sand box toys, which have not really ever had a home, except in a pile in the garage, or in a big black plastic bag somewhere. Now that the city has refilled the playground sandbox (aka neighborhood kitty litter) with sand for the summer, these toys have gone back intoRead more

Car and Grass Day

First off, it’s really darn hard to go to bed at a reasonable hour when the outside looks like this close to 2 am: And with that we’ve survived the first week of No-Finnur.  Seven dinners down, eleven to go.Read more

Climbing

Bjarki missed out on trying to scale the climbing wall at the Spring Festival the other day so I promised him he’d get to climb later. Today I fulfilled my promise and took the kids to the Climbing House (Klifurhúsið, family hours 16-18 on Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer) after picking Bjarki up from daycare.Read more

Four Months Old!

Time has started slowing down a wee bit – it seems like it’s been a while since Emma turned three months old, whereas the first three months passed by in a hazy speedy blur. But yes, she’s four months old today, and getting stronger by the day! But yes.  Finnur’s been gone for five dinnersRead more

Laugarvatn

We kindly accepted Finnur’s parent’s invitation to spend a night at their summer house at Laugarvatn this weekend.

Saturday 8 June 2013

Kids hanging out with their grandparents. Þórarinn Víkingur also stayed the night. Anna was over at the other house playing with Baddi’s girls.

Grandma Anna got roped into reading quite a few books!

Sunday 9 June 2013

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Spring Festival

Anna’s school formally ended instruction on June 5th, and will reconvene in late August sometime. It’s hard to articulate just how ready I am for her to be on vacation!  It’ll be great to have no more homework (we basically gave up on having her read out loud in April sometime) and there’ll be aRead more

Bits and Bobs

Here’s some stuff I bumped into as I was tidying up downstairs:Read more

Bjarki’s Graduation

Bjarki’s daycare/preschool held their graduation today, even though most of the kids will stay there until the summer vacation starts in July. Come August, Bjarki will then start attending the same school as Anna goes to, as a first grader (she’ll be a fifth grader!).  As things stand now, he’ll be in a class withRead more