Heaps of Bad Luck

Well, if it is bad luck to leave your tree up after New Year, then I better be careful. Fact is, it is bad luck to take your tree down until 13 days after Christmas (Epiphany) in Sweden. What is a man supposed to do? I am walking out of the office to go meet Lizzie for a drink. Other than that, we are still just trying to get organized. Lena is headed back to Sweden for a week in early Feb to get started again at work. They will assign her a project and she will work on it from Chicago until she goes back again in March. Oscar is staying with me for that week but going with Lena in March. We think we have found a day care center for that week and then also think that we will enroll him for a couple of days a week when Lena returns. When Lena takes him back to Sweden, he will be enrolled at a great place there. And, it is only $130 per week. Lena will stay in Sweden until a few weeks after Lucus is born. From March until June, therefore, I am just going to go back and forth. Over Easter, I think we are going to be in Iceland. I have always wanted to go to there and am very excited. Not too excited to be without my crew but there is really no other way. To give up, Lena's maternity leave benefits for us would cost us somewhere in the neighborhood of $65K and that is just not an option right now. We'll get through it. Of course, my birthday is tomorrow but I don't really have any plans. We have a great weekend planned though and I even may be able to do some fishing. Oscar is doing great as is Lena. Love to all.