Regarding: Three seasons in a month, Seedlings, and Norwegian.

The disclaimer is that I might not actually get to all of those topics because I’m setting a time limit here, but if I had all day these are the topics that I think deserve coverage and that I’d want to share with the beloved friends and family who read this. So, ”three seasons in [...]

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Mommies take Manhattan

We did it! We managed to reunite! We met each other’s babies, held them and wiped their noses, drank coffee and wine and maybe even a little bit of vodka, took turns watching busy boys so child-free shopping could occur….laughed, cried, and I, for one, did a number of happy food dances. All as it [...]

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The Leyrers in Norway, part 2

If you thought that I wouldn’t continue the trip summary, you were almost right. But stubborness prevails… After spending our first days together in Oslo, we boarded a bus to take us to train to get us to Arendal, home of Bjørn’s dad Ivar and his wife, Lil Torunn. Lars joined us again at this [...]

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The Leyrers take on Norway: Part I

Just to clarify: The absence until now of a post about my parents’ and Chris’s visit with us does not imply in any way that it was an un-blog-worthy event. It might be categorized as borderline un-blog-able, though, just because there’s too much to say about it. Conciseness has never really been a strength of [...]

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Three nights, two countries, one sea

Last weekend, for the first time since Karel was born, Bjørn and I went away for a weekend on our own. With the way the flights worked out, our plan was to spend three days and nights in Riga, Latvia. Riga has evidently been the new star of European travel destinations — beautiful old town, [...]

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