At this time of year it is hard to be at home when outside is filled with lovely sunshine, Easter blues and thick, fluffy snow.

Everyone has a sledding hill in Norway.  Ours is at the end of the street.  Especially when it’s a sunny Winters day you’ll find all the neighbours up on the hill playing with their kids.  Snowmen are made, jumps are moulded, and somehow in all the chaos, an advanced, intermediate and kiddies track appear. It’s [...]

Sometimes life takes you in extrodinay directions.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be sitting at a sewing machine making Samba costumes for a Samba Parade above the Arctic Circle in Norway. I am currently production managing the world’s most northern Samba Parade.  This year we have incorporated many Brazilian parade traditions [...]

Lilu wants to join Pappa in making snow angels.  She dives face first into the snow – doh! Not to worry, she has three more months of snow to get it right. And licking off the snow is just as fun!