Category: KidFun
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Camping ahead of the Storm
Wet autumn weather arrived with Storm Amy, ending the streak of lovely late-summer we’d been having. Fixardag, our apartment collective cleaning/ maintenance day, was rescheduled due to the coming storm. But the worst seemed to have passed by late afternoon, so Bryant and I headed to Trelleborg for dinner at Stulna Bestick Stolen Cutlery. We…
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September 2025
It seems as though a monthly post is more my speed lately. At the beginning of the month the eldest and I went to Minnesota to clean out the basement at Highland Hideaway, celebrate the birthdays of my mom and younger brother, and to catch up with friends. Eldest had not been to MN for…
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Seventeenth birthday adventures
Ebba’s friend, a neighbor from the Berkeley days, came to spend a week with us. It was a whirlwind of travel and adventure mixed with lots of down-time for gaming and catching up. For a variety of pesky reasons, the eldest Noiceling and I missed a lot of the fun but luckily Bryant was able…
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Sommartider hej hej
Summer has been slow to arrive but today is the first really hot day, by my standards, at 84 degrees. It might even qualify as a heat wave, which in Sweden is 3 consecutive days with a high of at least 77 degrees. Because the infrastructure is built to reduce heating costs, there hasn’t been…
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Saint Paul, Solo
January flew by with a quick trip back to Minnesota. Though not a popular time to travel, the January trip offered a chance to fill prescriptions, restock some favorite products that we can’t easily get in Sweden, and catch up with friends and family. The kids were busy with the start of a new semester…
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All about Autumn
Fixardag (Fix-It Day) happens 2x per year- the residents in our building gather to help do some of the communal chores such as clean the laundry room, trash room and courtyard. Ebba and Isabella (both go to Katte but in different programs) took on the job of patching. I did lots of weeding and pruning…
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Lundabo Life
Lundabo = a person residing in Lund. With all of the recent changes in our family life, I think it will be good to establish a new routine. Next week I resume Swedish studies at Malmö University so I’ll be going to Malmö at least once per week. Today marks the end of two weeks…
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Canoe Camping in Åsnens
We went canoe camping. Yay! In the search for a Swedish BWCA rather than the average Swedish trail camping spots we found Åsnens National Park. While not quite the same as northern Minnesota, it came pretty dang close! The mosquitos were huge and extremely annoying, the water was calm and very rocky, and the trees…
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Day trip to Hamlet’s Elsinore Castle
One of my favorite family adventures so far! Seriously good tourism, right in our own backyard. On Saturday I was able to check an item off the bucket list. So simple and satisfying was it that I’m amazed it took this long. Three years ago my friend Lisa shared with me her brilliant twist to…
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Easing into Autumn
The days are getting shorter and cooler but the fountains are still bubbling as we try to soak up the sun whenever possible. Sofia’s visit during her first break from her school in Sogndal, Norway, where she’s spending a gap year, was super fun! It felt like old times when the girls played together between…