Hiccups are a funny thing, and not just because of the cute little sound your kids make when they have them. We know babies and kids get them because they drank or ate too quickly, or because they gulped too much air in excitement, but one of my favorite piece of Scandinavian lore to share with people in the US is that when babies and kids are cold they get the hiccups. Very few people know about this secret, but this folk knowledge has been verified by scientific researchers at the Mayo Clinic and other medical institutions. We have nerves that run from our neck to our chests and when those nerves are irritated for whatever reason they make the...
If you were a child any time before the 1990s your memories of wearing wool might be similar to mine. Some of my earliest recollections of winters in Norway, involve me barreled up in course and scratchy wool base layers to keep me warm. Only years later did I discover how soft wool can be.
We all love taking trips as a family but there’s a lot to think and worry about, especially if it’s the first big trip for the youngest members of the family. Luckily at Ellas's Wool, we like to keep things simple. By dressing them in wool, we simply have fewer problems to worry about.
Some of my best childhood memories from Norway are of spending almost every weekend from December to April at our family cabin in the mountains. When we got there, us kids would start playing outside right away while our parents dug out the snow to let us into the cabin and started warming it up inside. Meanwhile, we were having so much fun outside! We’d only come inside for meals and when it got too dark. Every day the whole family went either cross country or downhill skiing. When we got back to the cabin, we’d spend hours making the perfect slide down the hill behind the cabin. We watered it every night to make it extra fast, too! When...
