Kids with iPad and some sort of two-player game.

So looking forward to green things in the garden.

But even though everything is still covered with snow, at least we have sunlight!

Minecraft has become Adrian’s favourite pastime. Legos are out, and so are beads, PlusPlus and all the other things that he used to spend so much time on. Oh, he still does those to some extent when Minecraft is not an option, but they just cannot compare. We’re actually packing away all his Lego models and bricks because all they do is take up space and gather dust.

When he watches videos on YouTube, half the time it’s about Minecraft. When he reads a book or a magazine, there’s a good chance it’s about Minecraft.

• Favourite dinner: pasta with a pea and goat’s cheese “pesto”
• Favourite sweet: Singoalla biscuits with mango and passion fruit flavour
• A few favourite books: Captain Underpants. Upptäckare och äventyrare by Sarah Sheppard.
• Favourite songs from Melodifestivalen: In my cabana by Margaret, Everyday by Mendez.
• Looking forward to: cycling season

Our garden is still covered by a good 15 cm of snow with no signs of spring, but the first snowdrops are out at Spånga Torg.

It’s fascinating that they can feel spring in the earth, despite the snow covering them.

Every day starts with the phone. For at least fifteen minutes after she gets up, Ingrid is shut in her room, doing who-knows-what, until that’s done and she comes down for breakfast.

She is very good at managing her own time in the mornings. She gets up as soon as the alarm goes off, comes downstairs in time for breakfast, keeps track of when it’s time to leave, etc.

At school she enjoys the practical subjects much more than the theoretical ones. Crafts, sports, art, music… the one more academic subject she enjoys is programming, which she does as an elective class.

After school she plays a lot of Overwatch. When she has an activity in the afternoon/evening, she skips after-school “club” and goes straight home after school so that she can play. Either she really loves Overwatch, or she no longer finds walking home on her own dreadfully boring. Or both.

Every evening ends with the same routine. Eric and I take turns reading for her. Then it’s lights out, and I climb up to her loft bed to give her a good night hug. As it is very dark behind her bed curtain, she often takes this opportunity to hide from me in some corner of the bed, and I have to find her by touch. Then she briefly pictures the next day and any special events (scouting and crafts on Mondays, for example) so she feels ready for it.

When I go back downstairs, I put on music that she can fall asleep to. It’s always Sheila Chandra.

Ingrid used to be anxious in the evenings, about any number of things, and now she’s not. Perhaps it’s the music. Perhaps it was simply a phase.

Bath. Boy. Boat.

I treated myself to bagels for dinner at Espresso House, after working late.

Even though I don’t drink coffee, I have their loyalty card app, only because of their cream cheese bagels. Those bagels are my first choice when I’m out and about and need a meal, fast and without a fuss. I guess it’s like McDonald’s for some people. Except the bagels taste much better.