... a long hard road ahead but a voice inside me said.. You know there is something that you need to know. It’s gonna be alright” (Sade, Long Hard Road)

When I do my school work, he is sitting on a chair next to me. When I lay on the couch, he pokes my belly and asks me to make some room for him. If I sit there, he does his leaning thing, like some people

I’ve had huge difficulties to find or decide the subject for my thesis and I’m meant to start working on it next week. The problem is that I could choose basically whatever subject inside the area of

Our daughter has been in the daycare since the first of August and now it hit us. The first flu and a message from the teachers saying there is a hand-foot-and mouth disease (HFMD) in her group. Before

Last spring my grandmother died after spending a couple of years in a nursing home and suffering from Alzheimer’s. In the end it was a relief that she passed because she was obviously in pain all the time,

Last Saturday we were celebrating my grandmother’s sister’s 90th birthday with a large family. At the same time it was our relative’s get together and I met some of my distant family members for the first

Do you know the feeling when time has gone really fast but at the same time very slow? @tarazkp and I just had our third wedding anniversary and so much has happened during those years. Just before getting

The love of my life turned two on Monday and we had some celebrations during the previous weekend. Our place is relatively small so all the people wouldn’t fit in at the same time so the party needed to

I have told myself that this day is still somewhere far far away but out of the blue, here it was. Yesterday was the day when our daughter started her daycare. I spent half a day there with her but today

I hear these names repeatedly every day on top of Uncle and Auntie’s names of course. Our dear @smallsteps is playing with her tiny lego characters and they are called Bob, Betty, Charlie Brown and Janet

The past week has been amazing. Last Thursday I met my husband's brother @galenkp and his beautiful (very beautiful!) wife for the first time. As a Finn, I don’t normally warm up too easily for new people

Tomorrow my husband’s brother and his wife will arrive to Finland. It’s been many many years since my husband has seen them and for me and our daughter this is the first time ever. So a big thing! Our

On Monday I started a web-course about co-operative values and principles. It’s one of the last courses (and part of the international studies) I have left before I can start writing my thesis. This course

It annoys me when people use the phrase “the power of social media” when they are trying for example to find their lost keys or an old friend through Facebook. But now I have to say that I'm impressed

Midsummer is quite important and special event for us Finns. Everyone has their own traditions and mine has been the cottage or barbequing with friends. Either way, there has always been a group of people.

Our daughter will start daycare in August. Today we went there for a quick visit to talk about her very narrow diet. She has all together about twenty ingredients she can eat. The lunch at the daycare

I need more time. We need more time. Because of the situation with our daughter everything else has been on hold. I’m studying at university and though it is summer, my work continues or should have continued.

A long day   Strong little girl Not sure where all that strength comes from From one battle to another You hold your head up high Here comes the smile Though everything seems dark Easily you light up the

If our daughter gets over her flu, the MRI is on Tuesday. Until today I have only been hoping that she can get it done so that we would know more. This uncertainty is slowly killing me. But now when we