After a strong start, and a plan to write or post pictures a couple of times a week, I have already taken a break of nearly 2 weeks from this blog space. During that time, we moved what we have here (the suitcases we came with) from our temporary apartment to our Swedish home, took delivery of our air container (bikes! clothes! a book!), had a couple failed and then successful attempts at making and accepting furniture deliveries, and tried…
We have been really really lucky in that we have been able to take our buddy so many places with us. A huge part of that has to do with the fact that his Pa travels quite a bit for work, so we have always had some sort of companion pass or bucket full of airline and hotel points. It sounds like a hitting the jackpot, and it totally is, but the flip side of that coin is that his…
So, when my husband and I had made it over to this side of the “should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-move-our-family-out-of-the-United-States-to-explore-and-play-and-work-and-see-what-other-parts-of-the-world-are-all-about” mountain (do you know this mountain? Have you heard of it? It looks so small and inconsequential from afar, but then you get up close, you start to climb, and it turns out to be quite a doozy), it was in the height of Marie Kondo’s hit Netflix special, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. So here we are, looking down the barrel of a…
Some advice I heard more than once about moving to a new country is “Get comfortable being uncomfortable”. I feel like I/we had discussed this enough, speculating about the things that might make us feel a little nervous (What if our containers get lost at sea? What if we don’t grasp the language? What if finding a house is really as difficult as everyone says? What if we hate it?) For each of these “what-if’s”, there are 500 more. But…
Hey there! Welcome to Det Långa Huset, the online chronicle of our family’s journey from Kansas City to Göteborg, Sweden. We arrived in Sweden during Midsummer, when the sky stays light for what seems to be an eternity (something like 23 hours?!), what an interesting (and completely trippy) welcome that was! If you’d like, follow along here as we settle in, look for a home, find a school for our kindergartener, and explore Scandinavia and beyond. We’ll be sharing what…