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...
Keep Your Kids Dry This Winter Break - From the Inside Out! It’s the middle of winter, and you’ve got a few young kids who each need a bunch of layers before they can head outside. You know what that means: you need to put each layer on them yourself.The problem is that by the time you’ve finished dressing the last kid, the first one has been sitting in her snowsuit for 10 minutes, sweating like crazy! Then, when you finally make it out the door, she’s going to be cold and clammy within a few minutes.Parents might recognize this problem, and Scandinavians might recognize the solution: merino wool. This type of wool is soft against the skin, resists odor,...
I love spring. Warmer weather, beautiful flowers, new shoes, longer days... I particularly love the change that takes place in our closet. Out with the warm and comforting clothes and in with the colorful and fun. Since I’m mostly wearing darker colors in the winter months, the change is not only about texture, but also visual. The woolen skirt, dresses and chunky knit sweaters will go in the boxes, together with my continuously growing collection of cardigans. 7 black cardigans? Really? It’s one of those things that is really hard to explain to a husband, but that a girlfriend understands immediately :-) Also, woolen thermal underwear will hopefully not be needed for many months. It feels great suddenly to have...
There are so many reasons to love wool but buying clothes for your kids can no doubt be expensive at times and with our busy schedules, we often tend to give in to purchasing items without realizing that there are some pretty simple ways to help us save time and money.
Keeping our kids warm outdoors is probably one of our main concerns as parents, but we tend to overlook the fact that we can actually make them 'too warm'. As a rule, kids tend to feel the heat more than adults. Above all, babies should not be dressed too warmly, because they transpire heavily.
