I loved taking MT to kindergarten by bike and feet, too bad we now live to far away to do that often. I think he loved it too and he felt so big riding his bike on the road and all….

After a couple of months scrapping I’m hooked. It is soooo fun! You should try it sometime

One of the great thing about digital scrapbooking is that there is so much to choose from, come to papers and decoration. I’ve found several wonderful places to search, but one stands out. At Songbird Avenue it is possible both to get and to give! Each month a new beautiful and creative kit comes for sale, and most of the income are passed on to a charity of some kind. What a wonderful idea.

This months kit are named Change.

I’ve used it a lot this month, and today I made the above srap for the Scraplift Challenge.

The inspiration for my scraplift I found in Christy Lyle’s scrap page about her daughter, Posing Princess. I loved her blocks of paper behind the photo and my plan was to also use a image with less colors, but well, I love the colors of my photo and made the papers a bit less colorful instead

Note! I wrote this a week ago, but never published it.
I’ve added the photos and finally, here it is The long weekend is August 14th - 18th, 2008.

It’s not long since I came back from vacation, but it was so good to have the weekend + a couple of days, free, last week. Days that we spent with our friend, family and IKEA

Thursday we chilled out at home. Or that was the plan. I had a few scrap pages to finish and it took, off course, much longer time to finish than anticipated. (I don’t know why I still think that it will only go an hour doing a page?!?!?) Suddenly (to me) we were late, so I tried to finish my scrap while cooking dinner and packing at the same time. MT got to eat the dinner all alone with me running around trying to remember the important stuff. LOL. Then we just had to run because the bus was coming; we ran down and got there right on time. Puh! But the bus was late; if I knew I could have remembered to bring underwear for MT, or a t-shirt, or unplugged the laptop! (I’m so glad there wasn’t thunder storm that day)….. but didn’t dare to walk up again since the bus could come any time. And it did, after a 15 minutes wait or so. I ate my cold dinner at the bus.

My mom collected us from the bus and drove us the short trip home to the farm. Soon my friend Bea came as well and we enjoyed the evening together (at least, we all enjoyed it after Bea and dad fixed her car). As if this wasn’t company enough, my brother and family suddenly came by with their caravan (to place on the hill behind the farm house; best view in town ;)). MT had so much fun with his cousins and we adults chatted away; we even went for a little nightly walk.

Friday we woke up early. All of us tired. But thrilled (that goes for the adult), this was the going-to-IKEA day I think it’s over a year since last time, and I missed it so much. Fun to go with my friend too! MT didn’t find IKEA that funny, but he loved the play room and found himself a nice new animal.

The funniest thing was MT falling asleep while we looked around, I don’t know how he managed to sleep like this - but he sure did!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO L & D!!

Our favorite twin girls turn 6 today! And what a great day to turn 6

They have just started their first year at school, so my guess is that there is lots happening right now I have been with them on their birthday for 5 years, this year I won’t make it (the journey is too long, and then there is the Confirmant Camp…) - but I wish I was there with you and so do MT! Miss you a lot, but have great memories from this summer to think about

We wish you all that is good and shout out that we LOVE you!

Lots of hugs from MT and me

I’m waiting for the rain to stop. I want more summer!

I’ve got a new theme for the blog. At least that solved the comment-issue (now you can comment as many time as you like ). It’ll take some time to restore the sidebar to it’s usual self, but I’ll get there First me and the little one are going to have some dinner; about time!

PS: the categories are not back on board, so if anyone can help me with that I’ll be glad!

Edit: now I only have 1 problem…. kind off

I’m planning a big Confirmant-year opening this weekend. So far I think there is 16 youths that have joined in. This weekend we are going to get to know each other and their parents/family is also invited to a bit of it. Hopefully the weather will hold so we can barbecue by the church as planned

There is, at this point, only two one problems:

1. I can’t find any adults that wants to spend the night with us, I don’t know of anybody to ask either. And even though the youths might be nice and all, I really would want us to be 2 adult present.
2. There is, off course, a soccer cup this weekend and many of the youths would rather be there.

Now I’m tossing and turning to find a way to make this weekend happen. Or else we might have to cansel the sleeping over part, and I so don’t want that! This year I plan to have a course for the “old” confirmants to teach them how to be a camp leader, so that might help in the long term run of things. But in the short term there is so few to choose from!

These apples remind me of taking time to let things grow……

Right now I’m home doing a bit of house keeping, soon I’ll head down to the office for a short while to send some mail and try to figure out how to make a email newspaper. Please help me if you know how!

MT finally got mom to go for a dip in the lake this evening. A bit late, but we had some other things to finish beforehand…. It was a bit on the cold side, though, but the look of the lake was as stunning as ever. I love this big lake and it’s sandy border I made a scrap page about the dip:

Song Bird Avenue is out with another stunning kit named Change. I love it!!

This month Christy Lyle is their  Guest Designer and 100% of this month’s profits will benefit National Parkinson Foundation. And this is what you get when you buy the kit in the Song bird store:

I’ve used it on several scrap pages already; these two are my favorites:

I also used papers and elements from the kit on these:

I finally got to join in on one of the ScrapMatters Speed Scraps this afternoon. All the others have been in the middle of the night (my time) and I just couldn’t get my self out of bed to join. This one, however, suited me fine (off course MT didn’t like it very much so he splashed water all over the bath room floor. And then he made up a story to tell me - and the kids in preschool, apparently - that he had put socks in the toilet. He never did it - but he got me worried - and himself a good laugh on mommy’s expense! What a boy. :P). Anyway, this is what I came up with, click the photo for credits.

Note: After the challenge I corrected a wrong spelling and added the small photo of the umbrella.

Note: vox-link fixed, now it goes somewhere!

There is a few bugs at my site since updating to WordPress 2.6 the other day. I am going to fix them as soon as I can. But for the time being I’m cross-posting to my vox lime if you want to give me a comment - and also to have another place to save my words….

As of now only one can comment on each post (even I can’t put any answer to a comment as it is….), and I have no idea why, but I guess a look through all the files that got uploaded might show me if there is one missing or wrong placed (I can’t wait to do that work….or NO!). There is also a wrong with the categories, they are hidden(!) - they only show the number of posts in them

Today MT insisted that if he were to go to church, we had to go for a bath afterward! So we did

Our second day out swimming this weekend and our second day without sun or warm weather….. It even rained when we dipped ourselves into the water; I reckon the temperature was about the same in the water as the rain was - so it didn’t matter that much, but still….

We had fun, though, and we both enjoyed our little swim. But I’m still cold several hours later and I have decided, that next time we go swimming there has to be sun!!

Sadly I got no photos from today, with the raining and all…. The photos are from our bath yesterday in a mountain lake nearby. Not only did the sun dissapear before we had time to go, but the wind made it really cold. In fact it was warmer in the water than above the surface!

THE GOOD WORD!

I do meet a girl at 5 or 6 years on a regular basis.

She makes me happy - she meets me with her good words!

How nice that sweater is, wow, those earrings are beautiful, Your hair looks so nice today!

I wonder if she knows how much I appreciate these words; I try to smile and say to her: Thank you so much, that is so nice of you to say. Now I’m glad.

I’m not just happy on my own behalf, I’m happy for her - because she has already learned how to use those good words. And then she challenges me, now it’s my turn to use good words and be thankful for everything I have gotten in stead of frustrated about those things that doesn’t work or I don’t like!

It is possible to practice the good word thing. After a while you will find that it’s not only they you say those good words to that becomes happy; you will make yourself feel good as well. That’s the secret about saying the good words. I wonder if the girl have discovered this as well?!

God has lots of good thoughts for us. Did you hear it? God has lots of good thoughts for us. Rest in that. In Psalm 40:1(2)-5(6) you can find that God thinks good about us. He wants to help and be there for us!

I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,
who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done.
The things you planned for us no one can recount to you;
were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.

Let him drag you from the mud, let him show you what grace and love are all about. Let his blessing sink in.

The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.

In this blessing I find some of Gods most beautiful thoughts for us. He looks upon us; not over, not away - but upon! He looks at us with kind, loving eyes and wishes the best for us. Because he knows life has many challenges for us to handle, he softly brushes our cheek and says: I’m here for you. I love you!

So that was fun, upgrading while being too tired to think straight! Not to mention that I still tried to do other things at the same time….. I might be a woman, but I have my limits!

Oh, well, hopefully most of my blog works, I’ll fix bits and pieces tomorrow - and activate/update a few more plugins. Please let me know if you see anything strange or some bad behavior (no, we are not talking about me, just my blog )!

See you around!

…and, yes, I have noticed that my categories needs some attention. Where are they hiding?!

Any minute now I’ll be upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.6.

This site is long overdue for some updating, so it’s about time. But I’m also putting MT to bed at the same time, so my guess is there will be some trouble along the way. Hopefully not not of the impossible kind….

We’re back from a wonderful vacation in west Norway. Great to see good friends again and having fantastic weather with sunshine most of the days. MT almost became fish and is more secure in the water than ever before; a few more days like this and he would be swimming for real - and above the water surface Way to go, big guy!

I’ll be back another day with more pics from our summer!