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The Barbers Return!

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...But just for two weeks. Don't get too excited. Yes, thanks to some fortunate timing and the perks of my job, we were finally able to make our first return trip to the U.S. as a family! As part of a project I'm on at work, we semi-regularly schedule face-to-face meetings between the Post Falls and Hørsholm team members. These are four days of in-person collaborating, and this time, we were scheduled to meet in Post Falls. With some nudging from my end, we booked the meetings in Week 7. We can't really pull the kids out of school for more than a week to travel, but Week 7 happens to be their Winter Break, so the timing of the meetings actually allowed us to be gone for two weeks without much impact on the kids' education. And with the company paying for my plane ticket and rental car, the cost of our trip was reduced a little. Zac wasn't crazy about the idea of getting on an airplane, but after what can only be described as a mantrum (man+tantrum), he came around....

Merry Christmas, and Welcome to 2026!

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Happy 2026 to all of our friends and family! We have had a really nice holiday break, and we hope that you have as well. Soon, we'll be heading back to work and school, but the much-needed end-of-the-year reset has been super successful. * * * Our holiday season kicked off while we were still at work, of course. They spoiled us with tasty presents and that oh-so-famous Christmas party. (I ate my treats within a couple of days - no self control. Zac's lasted much longer.) Christmas party day in my department started with a little bit of work, but after lunch, we started in on the pre-pre-pre-party. Our department got together for julehygge  - like a cozy Christmas gathering - where we decorated our department Christmas tree and made paper crafts while we ate æbleskiver,  drank gløgg , and listened to Christmas music. There are a few standard things people make out of paper each year to decorate - paper stars, paper hearts, paper chains, and paper cones. The paper stars (see my ...