Our family activities have become traditional to the seasons…

Table settings are very much a part of the tradition of serving cake.

As an Outlander, you might not have the ‘inside’ knowledge of what to buy and what not to buy for your baby’s nursery.  This information in Norway is usually past down from mothers, discussed in mothers groups or even posted on mother and parenting blogs – however, some of us don’t have the luxury of [...]

When I first came here I was put in a group of immigrants to learn Norwegian.  It hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually an immigrant myself, so I thought it very weird to be mixed in with everyone else.  Americans, Brazilians, Vietnamese, Georgians, Puerto Ricans, English, Russians, Germans and even Australians were considered [...]