Intro

My wife set up a blog (salonetity) and I figured maybe I should, too. I've been resisting too long in the face of inevitability.

We have two children, Yan and Essie. Yan (our boy) is almost nine months old, and Essie (our girl) will be two next month. She's talking in complete sentences, some of them surprisingly complex. Yan is not crawling on his knees yet. For some reason, he just pulls himself around by his arms. He can get up on his knees, and does so regularly, but then he just rocks to and fro without actually crawling. He's also quite freqently pulling himself up to a standing position. Essie, in addition to talking up a storm, loves running, jumping, dancing, and helping Yan get into mischief. She is mostly a very obedient girl, but she clearly has some attitude, which is very cute at this juncture and which I'm sure will terrorise her mother and me when she's older.

Our goddaughter, Valène, is also living with us right now. She's thirteen years old and just finished seventh grade. Even though she's sometimes an annoying teenager, we love her and we're glad she's here. :-) She may only be with us for a couple more months, or she may be here for about another year.

I'm getting ready to go to the University of Oslo for six weeks. I'll be leaving wife and kids behind this year. I'm a bit worried about that. I'm worried that they'll be okay, and I'm worried that I'll go crazy without them driving me mad... :-) I will be studying advanced Norwegian (Bokmål) language, introductory Nynorsk, and 'Nyere norsk litteratur' (New Norwegian lit), which is a survey of Norwegian literature from the last ten years or so. I'll be back home in the beginning of August.

There, that's a start. I'll try to post here regularly, so please check back every now and then. :-)