Alva’s 2nd birthday

Alva turned 2! How that happened is beyond me but it did. And the fact that it was the 18th of April is a detail we can skip here now in July. Better late blog than no blog, right? But back to the party, we started with the cake while Viggo decorated the table and […]

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Our Easter egg hunt

We were a bit late with Easter this year but on Sunday morning we did our yearly egg hunt! We mix the Swedish traditions with paper eggs filled with candy and a little gift with the French version with chocolate eggs and we hide in all in the garden. This was Alva’s first time and […]

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December days

We are preparing Christmas in a slow paste in our home with Swedish traditional occupations, putting cloves into oranges or making felt gnomes and paper stars. I wish to create the same, or even better, childhood memories that I was given and it’s mostly about smell and taste. Like the wonderful smell of jacinthes or […]

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Autumn days

I’m getting up at 6:30 but six is my goal. A quiet house, coffee and me and the computer until sunrise. Alva is now walking everywhere and Viggo has lost 4 teeth! Alva’s room is almost finished and she got a window shelf with a cosy lamp. I got the book Sam & Julia for Viggo […]

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Finishing details in the boys’ room

  We’re almost finished with the boys room, we need to get the baseboards and paint the trims and then we’re done! We’ve painted the walls in two colors, changed the floor to a grey parquet imitation and put up wall trims. Alva’s been helping us all the time and she’s a happy camper among […]

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