Archive for February 17th, 2009

I said yes to take a extra service in our neighboring church (even though it was on  one  of my Sundays off work) – one of my colleague was sick and I knew that I had planned this service before and that I could use the same approach here.So it wasn’t too hard to plan and do; nice with a little extra pay as well.

So we went to the church this very cold morning, MT should sit by himself so no babysitter for him that day. It was a really stunning and beautiful day, sunshine and blue sky. The team for the service was The Bible; Word of God so I brought quite a few bibles from home and showcased them on a table for all to see (I told the people to come forward after the service to look and feel all the different editions of the bible; I even had Greek new testament and Hebrew old testament – but the puzzle bible got most attention. I can see why it’s one of MT’s favorites as well.

After church we went home and ate dinner and then we went out skiing. My first try this season and I’m not very good at this. My plan was to make a slope for MT (and his friends) on the field outside our house for them to go skiing in. But it was so much snow there and for every move I sank down to right under the knee, making it hard to move forward. Instead of a round slope we just made one slope across the field and walked back the same way. Later I might try again…… if I ever can get this ski-going working….. ehe.

This was also our Mother’s Day (in Norway we celebrate it on the second Sunday of February; guess it’s because we already have too many days to celebrate in May – with our national day on May 17th…) – anyway I told MT about it to see what he thought. He didn’t find the day necessary, and objected to the idea of mom having more than one (kind off) birthday. But non the less he sang to me – happy birthday (but off course…)

Today was Saturday and as always this is a slow day at out house where we’ll do whatever we likes to do (I usually plan to do some cleaning and clearing, but most times I tend to overlook the mess and do other things. Like surfing, blog hopping, scrapping and reading for MT. Much more fun! I’m a super bad house keeper…).

We was outside this Saturday as well. Some gorgeous sunshine going on, but we got out a bit late so the many of the photos are a bit gray…. Nice to be outside, though!

This evening there was time for youth club, so I had the day-time off. Spent it scrapping and clearing – but it went far too fast. My dad came and watched MT in the evening. After youth club I drove home a few of the youths and I was so tired that I dived to bed as soon as possible.

Note: the photo was taken Monday 9th when my dad came back to babysit, but for that date I have another photo to use, and the photo suits this day just fine

This morning I managed to get out of the house and back to work. This day I went to a work …….. for the youths at one of the larger towns an hour from our house. It was a beautiful and cold day. Forgot to bring my camera, so I didn’t get to take any of the stunning scenery’s I saw driving though out winter wonderland.

In the afternoon MT went swimming with out neighbor kid, and I tagged along to chat with his mom. It was nice and MT had so much fun!! In the evening MT went with me to a meeting and ended up watching another movie together with a couple of other children present. A nice evening, but we got so tired by the time we were back home – and I really felt that I didn’t have much energy since I had been sick a couple of days.

Another day sick and tied to the couch. Feeling a bit better, though, and managed to bring MT to kindergarten this morning. No ski carousel as planned this day, but MT got to watch a movie instead – so he was just a tiny bit unhappy….

I spent most of the night in the bathroom. SUPER FUN! Blah.

During the day I had almost no energy, thankfully MT was a good kid and managed a lot of things himself that day. I slept on the couch on and off all day. Because of the cold weather we had to keep the wood fire lighted and MT was a good helper feeding it with wood in time. He loves to watch the flames – in fact so much that the whole living room smelled of sour smoke – I had to remind him: shut the door kiddo! I was not worried about him since he’s very careful with the warm stuff, but I don’t like that sour smoky smell, yak!

Good thing MT took it upon himself to keep the spirit up, though, love you kiddo!!

In the morning I went for work, I spent most of the day alone there – and it was nice to get to work without much interruptions My mom called to see how we were doing, she told me my dad got sick that morning. I just knew there would be others….

In the afternoon it became clear that I got the bug from my mom. It was no fun. But for some reason I managed to get MT to bed and wash some laundry + hung it up before I landed in my comfy old and well used chair.

We spent the day at the farm together with my parents and my brother and his family. We had lots of fun in the snow. Sadly my mom  was sick, so not so fun for her; but she still cooked us Sunday Dinner – like all crazy moms do!

I did write a post about this weekend, you can find it here.