here i am sitting literally in paradise, finally updating this journal.  we have been traveling around guatemala for about 6 weeks now.  though we did have a great little long weekend in new york with dan and
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there are a million and one things i should be doing to get ready to go. but of course i am not feeling motivated, so i am finding all the other things to do instead.  story of my life.  so we have had pretty good weather here for awhile,  nice that it is not raining.  zoe decided she wanted to be outside, and being the determined child she is, we ( Read more... )

okay, i realized it had been awhile since i updated, but i had no idea it had been so long!  i tell you having a child speeds time up a million fold!  well, after a summer of working here in sweden, we are getting ready to head off again.  this time to central america. we even have a stop over in new york for the weekend on the way there to see the ( Read more... )

 okay, okay, long time no see, and nobody's fault but my own.  i am currently hanging out in dahab egypt with my little crazy, wild, adorable, jumping off the walls, cute as a button daughter.  thomas has been back in sweden for a week, and will not come back down here for another week. so i get to try out this single mom thing, and well, it is not ( Read more... )

oooh, i am on a journal roll!  i guess it is feast or famine with me.  so this is another happy entry.  being a dive instructor and underwater photographer, you can imagine i am quite addicted to diving.  one of the biggest sacrifices for me while being pregnant was to give up diving.  you are not even supposed to dive while trying to get pregnant ( Read more... )

what a week it is has been,  i do not know if i sat down at all except when riding in cars!   (don´t take me literally on that one!).  but the week ended with two lovely things.  first zoe turned two months old!  i cannot believe it!  time goes so fast!  and second, yesterday i finally became a permanent resident in sweden!  yipee!  that is it ( Read more... )

´so of course life is busy busy busy, but i am loving it.  but this is really just a short post to show all the great mobile that 
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finally!  yes, after six weeks of no internet, we are finally back online.  what a saga!  internet provider A would not release us, internet provider B did not bother to tell us.  upon finally ringing A and demanding they let us go, B then claimed it would take 3 weeks without internet after release, after claiming it would only be one day when we ( Read more... )

proud to present
ZOE TESS THOREN

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nearly two months, just have not felt like writing. too many other things seem to be taking priority in life right now. i think most of you know, but i guess i should make it official. i am pregnant! yep, me, of all people having a baby. go figure. i have had some pretty shocked friends. anyway, we are hoping the little munchkin pops out in the ( Read more... )