We have come to the next chapter in our Star Wars themed household – building a space ship. As it happened, we got a delivery in a big big cardboard box, so big that we felt that it would have been a great shame and waste not to play with it before folding it up […]
We got a message from a friend who lives near a little river half an hour away. There are a lot of fireflies here now, do you want to come? Of course we wanted to! It was Sunday, a beautiful evening, and we made our way to see our friend just as the sun was
We have been living in Fukuoka for five years now, and for my part it is difficult to believe how quick it has been. Our son turned six last Friday, and thinking back, looking at old photos, it truly feels like only yesterday we came here just in time for his first birthday. Now he
The other afternoon, after snack time, my son suddenly turned to me and said that he would make a surprise. You can be in the kitchen dad, but don’t look, he said. Promise that you don’t look. So while I was preparing dinner I could see him in the corner of my eye working intensely
Being the only person my son hears speaking Swedish every day, of course it comes upon me to be the Swedish “teacher-in-charge” in his life. I have taken the task to my heart and every day I continue trying to make us work on different aspects of the Swedish language, but in a way that
It has become a yearly spring time tradition since moving to Fukuoka – forest adventure with our son’s cousins. But this year was different since it was the first time mummy could join. There is a company called Forest Adventure that has locations all over Japan where nature loving people can experience the thrill of balancing
I guess it started last year already – the talk among parents at kindergarten about backpacks for elementary school children. Simply put, during the six years of elementary school, Japanese school children are using a special style of backpack called ランドセル, randoseru, from the imported Dutch word ransel meaning backpack. I have grown up with the
A bit of nostalgia came over me the other day. I was riding on the train with my son, it was a humid warmish day, few people on the train, the door between the cars open. I was listening to the sound of the wheels rolling on the tracks, listening to the metal parts holding
We were so fortunate as to have my parents staying with us for three weeks during one of the most beautiful time of the year – Japanese spring. Together we had picnics among the cherry blossoms, went for country side drives, spent an afternoon walking barefoot in the edge of the ocean, and made the
It is always a special feeling to ride the Shinkansen bullet train. It is quiet, even economy seats have so much leg room that it feels luxurious, I feel easy to relax while looking out the window, passing through towns, seeing the countryside sweep by. Just a few months ago I made a post about
During our few days in Tokyo together with family from Sweden we had the chance to experience two very different sides of Japan – big Tokyo attractions and a small countryside ryokan. For our son, experiencing Tokyo Sky Tree and Disney Land for the first time was as exciting as anything could be. And doing
With the Japanese school year coming to an end and Swedish family coming to Japan to visit, our little family made a trip to Tokyo to meet them. But before seeing our relatives, we visited the world of Star Wars! As it happens, there was a Star Wars pop-up store in Ginza that I had