It was an evening of one of these very exhausting days. Not any particular reason, sometimes days in a family with little ones just can be exhausting… Anyway, I was sitting on the couch, surfing internet, absolutely nothing going through my brain. Empty headed, aimless, just surfing. And then suddenly something cached my attention and …
Destination: Fontis Bookstore, Aarau It is clear that no matter how much we love exploring the world around us and travelling from one place to another, no one can always be hitting the road again. First of all, family. It is not always that simple to drag the little kids everywhere with you. Every parent …
We all have different kind of fears in our life, some of them more realistic than others, and some of them… well… ridiculous. However, it never ceases amusing me how the little kids see the world. And how very weird things they can be afraid of. I remember our little princess was once afraid of …
”Mommy, where is the sun?” This is a question my two-year-old asks every morning, usually over the breakfast table. And every morning I give him the same answer, “sweetie, I think the sun is hiding behind the clouds. This particular morning we were eating breakfast at grandma’s, and decided to actually do something about this …
We all have our own ways to get ready for Christmas. Some of us do a lot of last minute panic Christmas shopping, some decorate their houses so that they look like one of those billboards you can drive by on a freeway. Some buy and prepare tons of food and invite the whole extended …
Destination: Schinznach Bad, Switzerland Travel Diary: This year we had a rather busy autumn. My dear husband started a new job, we moved to a new home and we celebrated my 40th birthday, just to mention a few things. And of course our precious princess started in a new pre-school and we all had to …
As some of you may already know, Finland is my original home country. That is probably why I don’t think traveling there as ”traveling”… maybe that is also the reason why it is the only one place in the whole wide world where I would go alone with two little kids, letting my husband stay …
It was a beautiful Sunday morning, and we didn’t feel like staying at home. Instead, we decided to load our stuff and our kids into the car and headed to our favorite place in the mountains. Engelbergertal – what a paradise on earth. Only this time we didn’t go all the way up to Engelberg, …
Last Friday my dear husband had a day off from work so we decided to do something together, the whole family. The weather podcast promised warm but not steaming hot – what a perfect day for a Finn to go for a picnic at the lake shore! But where…? My favorite tool for finding cool …