Tag: Texas

  • Donuts and Tacos

    Was looking around for places to eat when we go to Texas this summer. I found this image – http://imgur.com/SkUFVSM .  Genius.

  • The latest in boot theft news

    “Burglar breaks into Cavender’s Boot City, steals boots” This headline is in the Houston, Texas news today. I don’t know why this makes me laugh, other than the question, Well, […]

  • Don’t Mess With Texas

    There’s a parent at my kid’s school that is ….. hm…. how shall we say….. not a nice person. I am doing my best to always be nice and polite […]

  • image shows a cowboy boot

    Different cultures

    Don't mind him, he's half cowboy.

  • Thursday

    This was the southeast Texas’ Facebook page this morning.  Apparently they’re having some freezing temperatures for the next few nights. Here in Stockholm, we call this “typical Thursday weather,” and […]

  • Differences between TX and Swedish kids

    My friend Erin in Texas told me that she and her kids spent the morning in their yard hunting a possum with a baseball bat. It’s a shame with all […]

  • Just a typical Texas morning

    Shootin’ BB guns at trash cans. And people ask me why I raise my children in Sweden.

  • Impressions of Texas

    When we were in Sicily last month, a waiter asked where I was from.  When I replied that I was from Texas, he said, “Ah! Pistolero!” His stereotype is actually […]

  • Why I can no longer live in the U.S.

    This is less than $5.  I’m lucky I survive the vacation with my heart intact. (But it sure is good!)

  • Colonel Bubbies

    One of our favorite stores in Galveston, Texas is closing at the end of the summer.  It’s an army surplus store called Col. Bubbies and it’s filled with old scary […]

  • This is why we go to Texas each year.

    You just can’t get this in Sweden.

  • My half-Texan son

    I found out that my son hit another boy last week at school.  My son is normally very calm and quiet, so I was concerned and asked what happened.  He […]

  • Movie review

    Our assignment today was to write a movie review in Swedish. Everyone else was picking all these girly “Under the Tuscan Sun” type dramas. I picked The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. […]

  • Pool halls – Stockholm vs. Texas marina

    I went to play pool this week in Stockholm with one of my friends.  I haven’t played in a while, so it was fun, plus we were evenly matched, which […]

  • Small town gift ideas

    My mom came to visit and she brought me the local small town Texas newspaper.  This is why I’m much happier spending my Christmas in Sweden instead of Texas.  “Shop […]

  • Winter in Texas

    At the moment, the temperature in Houston, Texas is the same as Stockholm, Sweden.  This doesn’t happen often.  The other thing that doesn’t happen often is for Texas to get […]

  • Chupacabra

    I often send our local news stories to my friends in Texas about the Swedish wildlife; drunken moose and vanilla beavers. But how am I supposed to compete with Texas […]

  • Our month long trip to Texas in one minute

    A video of our trip to Texas condensed into one minute. [youtube=http://youtu.be/Se5r7R0BUXE]

  • Fire Ants!

    At the moment, we are on vacation in Texas.  Here is what happened last year when we went on vacation in Texas.  FIRE ANTS! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QkCxPHZP6E&w=560&h=315]

  • More memories of Texas

    On one of our Texas trips, we were invited to a 3 year old’s birthday party.  This party was being held by the cowboy who lives across the way.  There […]