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 we learn as newly minted expats, through trial and error, research, and (fingers crossed) a lot of help from locals. Have any experiences you’d like to share? We welcome you to shoot us an email (contact us here) or leave a message in the comments.