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A Bit Overdue: Thoughts on Travel, Home, Repatriation, Saying Goodbye, and Beauty

August 27, 2018 By Jodi

A couple weeks ago we passed our one-year repatriation anniversary. Not coincidentally, a couple weeks ago we got back from our summer trip to England and Sweden. We had a lovely time, and I'll sneak some pictures in here to add visual excitement to what will most likely end up a rambling stream of tired,...

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Repatriation: Some Thoughts

November 13, 2017 By Jodi

Most of my posts over the last six months have been about how overwhelming and difficult our international move was. (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C.) But now that we've been here for nearly three months and finally received our stuff (two-and-a-half months after it left Sweden!), it's starting to feel like the move is over....

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Boy running through the woods in evening light

On Overwhelm

May 31, 2017 By Jodi

In 2014, we moved to Sweden and we had our second child, Leif. Having a baby and moving internationally in the same year was incredibly stressful, and I vowed not to do it again. Well, it's 2017, I had a baby a few months ago, and we're preparing to move back to the US. That thing...

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Multnomah Falls near Portland, Oregon

A Huge Announcement

May 18, 2017 By Jodi

So, I have something to tell you.

Farmer releasing cow from barn

A Wonderfully Quirky Swedish Spring Tradition

May 8, 2017 By Jodi

In my last post, I wrote about a rather sedate spring tradition in Sweden. This weekend, we attended one of the quirkiest traditions we've heard of: the spring cow release, or kosläpp.

Boys sweeping the street

Life in Sweden: Community Cleaning Days

May 4, 2017 By Jodi

Now that spring has (finally!) come to our part of Sweden, communities are having their biannual fixardagar or städdagar (fixing days or cleaning days). Most communities, be they neighborhoods, marinas, apartment or condo associations, or parent-cooperative preschools, have a day in the spring (and another in the fall) when members of the community get together to do whatever...

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August in pink pants

Raising Gender-Neutral Kids in Sweden

April 20, 2017 By Jodi

Last Thursday, when I arrived at school to pick up the boys before the long weekend, Leif was wearing a hot pink skirt over his pants. They'd done some dress-up for Easter and he hadn't taken off the skirt yet. When I commented on it ("I love your pink skirt!"), he seemed pleased and proud, then continued to...

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Listening to the nurse at baby's first home visit

A Great Thing Sweden Does For New Babies (and Their Families)

March 20, 2017 By Jodi

I remember the first time we went to the pediatrician when August, our first, was born. It was within the first week of leaving the hospital, and it was our first excursion out of the house with the baby. It took us at least thirty minutes to get ready—we had to pack the diaper bag, get...

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Making friends as an adult in the US and Sweden, two women hiking

Making Friends As An Adult in the US and Sweden

February 24, 2017 By Jodi

I've been thinking a lot about relationships—particularly friendships—as part of my happiness project these last few months. It's also something I think about as an immigrant living in a foreign country. I have been blessed to have some of the very best friends in the world, but, unfortunately, they all live an ocean—or an ocean and a...

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Fire outside cafe making for a cozy Swedish winter

Winter in Sweden: the Basics

December 15, 2016 By Jodi

It's time to talk about winter in Sweden. A while back I wrote about summer in Sweden, essentially saying that it's like heaven. And winter? Well, winter can feel like the opposite; or if not quite like hell, then rather like a long, slow slog uphill through waist-deep snow in the dark with clouds covering...

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I just repatriated from Sweden to the US with my British husband and three young kids. I started this site while living in Sweden to build the conversations and community we've had with loved ones around the world, and to create a space to share thoughts about life, beauty, motherhood, and everything else. read more →

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Someone turned 4 this week. We gave her a super fu Someone turned 4 this week. We gave her a super fun Fuji Instax camera and I’m loving the mementos lying around the house. And did I mention that my *baby* is 4?! Life, man. Just keeps happening.
Weekend escape to the coast. South of Yachats. Weekend escape to the coast. South of Yachats.
Morning couch snuggles with our newest housemates. Morning couch snuggles with our newest housemates.
My wine did this yesterday. Is this a bad sign? My wine did this yesterday. Is this a bad sign?
How an evening should be. How an evening should be.
So the other night I was drinking a margarita by t So the other night I was drinking a margarita by the fireside and reading the Girls Night In newsletter. At the end they asked readers to respond it a question, so I did. (A bit tipsy, mind you). Apparently they liked my response, and they shared it with their IG community (just a cool 134k followers), and I have been over the moon with the response. The comments have been a treasure to read. Thanks, @girlsnightinclub, for what you do and the community you’ve created.
Glorious time at the coast today. Our first trip t Glorious time at the coast today. Our first trip to Seal Beach. Somehow everything was perfect about it and we ran around and tidepooled and flew kites and rearranged driftwood and rocks and ran in and out of the waves for hours.
We did the thing where you go to a place and there We did the thing where you go to a place and there’s stuff on the ground. 3 out of 5 had fun. 1 out of 5 denies having had fun, despite having had fun. 1 out of 5 wore THIN COTTON PANTS despite many better options and much advice to the contrary and was miserable the whole time and thus did not have fun.
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