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Welcome to my little piece of the blogosphere. I started this blog while we were adopting our daughter as a way to keep faraway family and friends up-to-date on the progress. Over the years it has morphed into more of a journal of life in our house . . . as seen through the eyes of a Canadian suburbanite living in a small village in mid-western Finland. Check out the pages above for more info on us, as well as our adoption, and it would please me well if you left a comment to say hello!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

breaks

Well, I seem to have taken a week’s break from social media . . . I was off Facebook and Blogger this past week, sorta intentionally, but also just cuz we’ve been kinda busy.

We are now on Sportlov (Sports Break) – the nordic version of Spring break. I actually started at 1.15pm on Thursday (since I no longer work on Fridays). So far we have no real plans other than dental appointments.

Mattias went to a birthday party last night and spent 5 hours today at an outdoor event in a local village . .. sledding, snowmobiling, etc. Joel has gone to a sleepover at a friend’s house. Tomorrow, we’re expecting guests (did ya know that Teres?) when my broken and now fixed computer gets returned . . . I’m soooo dumb. I got myself a trojan horse on my computer when I was trying to find a good link for the last few minutes of a CSI episode. *banging head on wall* I know better than to just indiscriminately click on links.

Which brings me to backing up data: I had all photos up to September 2010 onto the external hard drive, so I started to panic a bit. Fortunately, I haven’t deleted pics on my camera since mid-November . . . so it would’ve only been about 6 weeks lost. But our co  friend assured me he would be able to save everything on my computer:) Yay!

So, now I’m working on the old computer. Which is frustrating because the screen isn’t wide enough . . . I can’t see everything I’m typing.

And the spacebar doesn’t always respond.

I actually have to edit/proofread.

Back to our plans. I think I will wake up ridiculously early on Monday to watch the Oscars. They air at about 3am here:)

Stefan and I go to the dentist on Tuesday. Then, his niece’s 9th birthday in the evening.

On Wednesday, Mattias is getting more orthodontic work done – train tracks on the bottom.

Hopefully, we’ll spend some time with relatives visiting Monäs from Sweden.

Hmmmm . . . that’s about it for now.

Nice stream of consciousness, eh? (Do you like that touch of Canadian flair?)

Gotta go . . .  Melodifestivalen starts in 8 minutes:)

Barb

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Stacy, Pat and Aidan said...

Hmmmm. . .seems to be working now! Interesting. . .

March 2, 2011 6:47 PM

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