... 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

With all the birthday excitement, I forgot to upload what I was meant to show today. Daddy made this video as a reminder for Mummy but to be honest, I think the scars won't be forgotten any time soon.

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

My father grew up in Malacca, Malaysia as the third of four children. They lived in a one room bungalow even though his father was the post master in the town, a relatively good job. My father said several

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

Last night I went to my first music festival. Well, that is a little bit of a stretch since we didn't actually go into the festival, we just stood across the river with some friends and listened to the

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

The time has come to say farewell to Oxford and head to Heathrow airport. To my chagrin we’re on a bus however I felt that driving into Heathrow might be a little stressful and so opted for the bus despite

Tomorrow afternoon I will pick my brother @galenkp and his wife up from the airport as they start their first visit to Finland. They look to be pretty lucky with the weather too which is nice because it

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

Sometimes I use the analogy of the good, the bad and the ultra when talking abut employees for someone to get a visual representation of a situation. If we see good employees as those who do their job