Archive for February, 2008

Sorry for suddenly disappearing. I forgot (as always at this time a year) to renew my domain. And, off course, my host didn’t bother to tell me before it was too late (the truth is I asked them if the domain wasn’t up for a renewal soon. The answer was: Yes. Yesterday!)

As soon as my house is clean I’ll be back to tell more from our wonderful vacation in western Norway and also how good it is to be home alone one whole day while MT is in the kindergarten having fun

But first dinner

…I guess I’ll be back before the house is clean, though, that would take forever – or so it seems!

We are planning to drive back home today. But what mountain pass to chose? Seems like most of them are closed because of the weather Sadly I have work tomorrow or else I would have asked if we please could spend another night at our friends. We might have to drive all the way south to the Stavanger area, before heading east and north again… That is the long way home!

Wish me luck We’ve had a wonderful time with friends, though. Glad to be here with them again after months away from them.

MT visited his old kindergarten for 2,5 hours yesterday. He had fun and I think it was nice for him to discover that they hadn’t forgotten him and that they missed him as he have missed them…. He was a bit surprised when he discovered that someone else had his place, even though that was a given with the waiting list to get in and all!

MT enjoyed playing with our old neighbor E after no see for 4 months. For some odd reason this basket made MT think about the mask bee keepers wear on their faces – and so they sold us all some pretend honey.

It got so quiet here.

My friends have had all their children at home and a few girlfriends as well. For the first time, since MT and E jumped into my bed to wake me up this morning, it’s only me and MT around. But not for long, off course. The others went out to help the daughter’s boyfriend with some car trouble….

Today we’ve been here in the house. MT spent some time outside in the rain playing with E, but I haven’t been tempted to be outside more than a couple of short trips to the car. I’m not that found of the rain. E was brought here by his mother and it was nice to have some time catching up with her as well.

Now MT look forward to visit his old kindergarten tomorrow or on Tuesday, I plan to visit my old place of work and to spend some more time with our friends here. Tuesday afternoon the plan is to go and see our other friends a few kilometers north of here and spend some days with them as well. This is a vacation after my heart = time with friends and a slow pace!

It’s been 4 months since we left this place. In a way it feels like a lifetime ago, since our life now is so different at our new place. In a way it feels like last week because not much has changed here, my friends are still here, I’m borrowing the same bed and the rain is still poring down like always

It’s good to be back, though, and MT is happy. This is as far as he is concern our home and tonight he told me that the current pastor couldn’t live in our (old) house. And, off course, he was not allowed to have mommy’s job either.

Now I don’t want my old job back, nor the old house; I’m quite happy with our new life, new house and my new job. Even the snow all over the place makes me happy, much happier than rain ever could make me…. Off course I miss my friends and it’s wonderful to see them again!! I look forward to see more of them over the next few days! And I understand MT’s joy over being here and wish he can bring back with him the knowledge that his old friends still are his friends and that we always can go back here and meet them; at least once a year.

Here he is enjoying a slice of bread in the middle of the night. He could not go to bed hungry not matter how late we arrived Or, so he told me

The ocean stretches on and on.
Photo from last May and Northern Norway.

We’re going west for our winter break. Looking forward to that, it’s been a while since we last saw them and we miss our good friends there. It will be good to see the fjord and the ferries too, it surprises me that I don’t miss them more than I do; at the time they seemed to be such a big part of our everyday life.

MT is looking forward to visit the kindergarten that he still reckons as his, even though we’ve lived here for a little while now and he has a new kindergarten right here that he likes to be in. Hopefully it’ll be more fun than sad to visit the old. Hopefully it’ll be good to get some closure and also good for him to see that the friends he had there still remember him as he does them

Now I just have to figure when we are going and also make sure that this blog domain still is up when we return. Think there is a renewal right around the corner, the past two years I forgot – so this time I better pay attention!

I promised my self to be in bed before midnight – have to run

Oh, and I almost forgot: HAPPY VALENTINE! Love you

I’ve realized that I in fact are sporty – and that I do sport in an extreme way Yea, it was new to me as well!

My kind of extreme sport is Confirmant Camp(!)

From early morning to late night (or maybe early morning….) I’m moving around from task to task. A few times I’m in the middle of fire (the verbal kind) other times there is impossible mazes to figure the way out of (of the how-to-be-together-and-be-nice-to-one-another kind) and there are no number to the challenges I am put through on a daily basis.

During one of this sporting event I have just about all kind of feelings; I’ve been glad, happy, sad, angry, really angry, afraid, tired, exhausted, worn out, proud, insecure, loved – to name a few

Today I sleep and regroup! Good it is 6 months until the next sporting event – and good thing I only do it for a weekend.

I took it while driving over a mountain pass, high with snow, in the winter of 2007. In front of me I had a few other cars, that and the snowy road was pritty much all I saw in the darkness.

I guess there is just as much, and maybe more, snow at the mountains right now

Just in time before the midnight is here I have to shout out to my friend on the north west coast of Norway:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I miss you and wish to see you – or at least talk to you – really soon. I miss our conversations and our children playing together so well (most of the time ). Such great memories; glade we can make some more in the coming year even though we live farther apart.

I heard you were sick on your special day; hope you are feeling better already!

Hugs!

P.S: want to know a bit more about her, go to last years birthday-wish

Where we used to live. We miss it, but loves the snow here