5 Dec 2025
Essentials
Community Education Essentials Expat Support Family Lifestyle Parenting Preschool

Inskolning Diary – day 3

Finally, day 3 … I was exhausted, I knew she was exhausted. But, we didn’t get a phone call (big plus)… …I’ve just dropped S off at förskola to spend the first day on her own. I didn’t even get a wave goodbye! She ran straight into the room waving to everyone. So much for that […]

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Community Education Essentials Expat Support Family Family Activities Parenting Preschool

Inskolning Diary – day 2

Day 2 of our inskolning experience meant that M was stepping up to the plate. Bit of a shocker… …it’s day 1 except everyone apart from me knows exactly what is going on. That is how it felt as we didn’t even know where to put S’s shoes and jacket as we arrived. But luckily […]

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Education Essentials Expat Support Family Parenting Preschool

Inskolning Diary – day 1

It’s coming up for that time of year again! The new round of inskolning starts at förskolas all over Stockholm. If you don’t know what that is, well, you are in for a treat! Before S started her inskolning experience, M and I decided to keep a diary of the 3 days we spent at […]

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yoga games stockholm mindfullness
Health Yoga

Yoga Games 2017

Call it luck or faith, I happen to live about a 7 min walk from Münchenbryggeriet, where the Yoga Games took place on the weekend of the 10-12 of February. Such a luxury to step out of my apartment and have access to so much yoga knowledge !  I truly appreciated that when my alarm […]

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Health Sports and Fitness Yoga

Yoga Games face on!

When you are a yoga geek and told you are given a ticket to the Yoga Games in Stockholm starting today, I can only assume that is how Charlie felt when discovering his Golden ticket: pure excitement. I must admit I am still trying to keep up with the amount of Yoga events happening in […]

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Expat Support Family Family Activities Health Parenting Pregnancy & Baby

Fab VAB

It’s FEBRUARY!! Or, as parents in Sweden like to call it, VABruary… This month has honestly put me off having more children. Like an annual contraceptive. I can’t stand it, I’m moving to Antigua next February. Today is day ten of illness in our home and I’m freaking out that this is it, we’re in a spiral of sickness for the rest […]

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Expat Support Family Family Activities Lifestyle Moving to Sweden Parenting Pregnancy & Baby

The expat identity

According to social sciences identity is the conception, qualities, beliefs, and expressions that make a person e.g. self-identity   Identity has never been something that has kept me awake at night. I don’t mean the really awful film with John Cusack and Ray Liotta. I mean the social construct that is meant to make a person e.g. […]

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Community Family Health Parenting

Top 5 strategies to help children adapt to their world and thrive

We live in an incredibly stressful and distracted world. According to current statistics, 1 in 10 children are diagnosed with a mental illness and data shows that this is on the rise.* Not only do we have this alarming situation with children’s mental health, our world also has many new complex issues that require great […]

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Community Health

FIGHTING S.A.D

Whether we like it or not, summer ended and autumn is here.  Autumn is actually not that bad when you think about it, it’s all about brown and orange leaves, pumpkins, spices and hot chocolate (with marshmallows)! However, with the colder weather and the lack of light it is important to listen to your body and […]

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Community Moving to Sweden Swedish Culture

The pursuit of the Swedish friend

I moved to Sweden 2009. That makes 7 years ago and yet, the other day, I caught myself saying to my friend Mikaela, “I think you are my first real Swedish girlfriend”. How weird is that? I did the math and after 7 years I can account for 3 real Swedish people that I would […]

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