Ilona comes to visit
Well, my sister could not have picked a worst time to come and visit weather-wise, the end of March had [...]
At the Winter Garden
Ok, so this is by no means new material but I got a request to post some of these garden [...]
Happy Birthday Mira!
So here it is, the big day, Mira is s one year old toddler. To celebrate this big event, we [...]
Last 4 months in video
Okay, here are a bunch of videos from the last four months. It’s amazing how much progress babies can have [...]
Finland, the Winter Wonderland
Well, hopefully winter will be over soon, I’m getting a bit sick of it but I’m pretty sure it’ll stick [...]
Fish!
This post is all about fish. If you know me you know I’m a bit fanatic about fish, so when [...]
Life in the Autumn pt. 2
Ok, I know I know, it’s January now and autumn ended a few weeks ago, but here’s my chance to [...]
Stockholm
So we went on the “booze cruize”! This is what the return trip to Stockholm with about 8 hours on [...]
We are growing up
Another update! This time just a collection of up-to-date images of what Mirka is up to. In other news: [...]
Life in the Autumn pt.1
Well, we have been a bit lazy with the updates on this blog lately so here is a post to [...]
Living with an 8 month old
I know we haven’t updated the blog in a little more than a while. I suppose this is because we’ve [...]
Instead of a castle, we found a wooden town
One day a couple of weeks ago we had the idea of taking the dogs for a romp in some [...]
Mushrooms everywhere
Finland in autumn is a hunter-gatherer’s heaven. Long and dark winters, owing to the country’s address in the high parallels, [...]
Teletubbies, animals, babies and friends
This post is about the last couple of days. Fall has finally started—air is getting cooler, leaves are turning and [...]
Seurasaari, the Finnish time machine
A few weeks ago, one fine morning after our typical drill of—get-up, shower, feed Mira, feed self, feed dogs, walk [...]
Happy 1/2 year Mira!
Yesterday was booboo’s 6 month “anniversary”! We dressed her in her finest and snapped some pics. Thanks babushka for the [...]
In Porvoo
Another place we went to visit while Dennis was still here was the town of Porvoo, about 50 km east [...]
Mira videos
In this post I want to share some of the videos we’ve taken of Mira, I find that for showing [...]
Broccoli Tree
Here’s the Broccoli Tree to clarify to those folks who’ve never seen one; It really looks like a bunch of [...]
Regular day
This will look very familiar to Dennis. For everybody else: this is what a typical “lets go downtown” day looks [...]
Tallinn, you’re so beautiful
So since Dennis was here so he could now dogsit our and Otis and Luna got along with my dad’s [...]
Family re-united
In this post I’d like to continue where I left off, still in the first week of our Finland experience. [...]
Long and Short of it
Kati finally convinced me to contribute to the blog. As I’m sure you all know already, I’m not nearly as [...]
First few days
The next few days after arriving we stayed at cousin Tanja’s place and started sorting out legalities, running errands and [...]
Epic send-off
First of all, I want to thank you all for your help, patience, friendship and enthusiasm that you all have [...]

