Everydaystranger

I think that sometimes you can be ok with something while really not being ok with it. Maybe it’s like birthday cake – you might like the cake but hate the icing, yet you know one goes with the other and so you accept that something is great while dealing with something not so [...]

I’ve been asked how I plan to raise the two dual citizens already residing in the house. I like to think the cat and dog can fend for themselves, but sure, I can explain how they’re dealing with both cultures.
*crickets*
Sorry. It’s been a long day.
The two little people who scurry about [...]

I’d been having a rough morning. The twins were in angry moods and there is much work to be done.
Then the postman came – he brought our stamped Swedish divorce decrees, which we found out last week that we needed in order to get married (we had decrees, they simply didn’t have [...]

I just don’t love the following, although maybe you will:
1) HP Sauce (or the American similar one, A1 – this was previously number 26 but I had a brain fuck-up so now it’s #1) and people who wear their phones on holsters on their belts
2) The Rolling Stones. Or The Beatles for that matter.
3) [...]

There has long been the view that you can be a woman and have it all, but I for one am here to say that there’s no such thing as “having it all”. You can have some. You can maybe have much. All? Nope. Not possible. You can’t be [...]

Guess this means you’re sorry
You’re standing at my door
Guess this means you take back
All you said before
Like how much you wanted
Anyone but me
Said you’d never come back
But here you are again
I realize that a lot of what’s happened between him and I is behind the scenes, which is a decision I made a while [...]

Two things that I want to pass on:
- Thank fuck it’s Friday
- And two and a half year olds rock.

Also, like I said – Asshole.

-H.

A few life things, m’kay:
1) I had the Mirena coil put in almost three weeks ago. To date, I can report the following:
- My surgeon advised me that I would be looking at 4-6 weeks of bleeding and Holy McJesus you bleed. A lot. Relentlessly, really. And it goes on and [...]

This isn’t a post about the gooey, drippy, golly-gee-I-loves-the-twins stuff that I confess I am perhaps prone to do.
This is, instead, about the non-standard life of playing a role that you hadn’t ever thought you would fill. It’s about finding yourself in a very grown-up space. It’s about finding yourself [...]

Scene: Outside table on deck, sunny Spring day.
Time: Lunch today.
Characters: Myself (first person), Alastair, Jeff, the twins Nick and Nora.
Jeff: We’ve been going through all the animal noises with the twins in the car this morning!
Me: Really? Fabulous! Babies, what does a cat say?
Twins: Meeee-yow!
Me: Very good! What does a horsey [...]

Sometimes you feel like you’re standing at the top of a very large sand dune, with endless seas of grains around you, the sun high above you, and the hot wind wrapped around the base of your neck. There’s no one around you and as far as you can see the sand is unbroken [...]

I redecorated.
It happens.
I think it runs in the family – my mother used to move furniture around constantly, my dad would grumble that if he were Helen Keller he’d be dead. I wonder if there was something subliminal in that.
Alastair was in Sweden last week visiting Melissa and Jeff’s schools for parent-teacher [...]