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Kiddo got in trouble surfing the Internet yesterday, so now he’s not allowed to use any of my browsers anymore. To many searches for fighting games from his side…

But we’re trying out a new browser called Kidzui, anyone used it? I hope it is fun to use, but also that it’s not easy to manipulate from his side of the table…

So now, if only no one teaches him how to delete surfing history in the other browsers I can keep on telling him: “If you use my browser, and yes I will know if you do, then it’s no computer time for a week”.

Off to check up on how he’s doing and how he’s liking his new browser.

So I might have been a bit sleepy this morning. Or maybe it was just wishful thinking?! Anyhow I managed to put out my week 6 post (of the iPhone Photo Project) – with photos and word from week 5(!) That’s the danger of being lacy and just copying the stuff from the week before; editing the photos and word as I go down the list of days….

But it’s fixed now. New photos. New words. All originals of week 6/52.

Come take a look (while I take a break and clear my head)! LOL.

Just testing wordpress app for iPhone. Seems to be functioning Good thing! Night…

Oh, and yea, just a reminder: comments still don’t work – and I’m going to bed now…. Night!

On New Years Eve I found a new word for the new year (her is a little bit about my word for 2009). It’s kind of nice to have this one little word to think about and grow into for one whole year and I love the idea. I first got it from Ali Edwards, but I’m also inspired with the way Janet Philips approached it this year.

My own little word for 2010?

EMBRACE.

(I wish I had a scrapbook page to show off, but it’ll be here here eventually.) This year I’m embracing the good, the bad, the ugly and all in between. Embrace how my life is, how my day is – and I don’t want be tougher on myself than necessary; embracing that I don’t manage to do it all, but still embrace the trying. I want to practice thinking good about my self and to approach life with a positive attitude. I want to embrace the good in us moving to a new place and me starting a new job, as well as embrace the hurt and bad feelings from where we’ve been the last couple of years and slowly leave it behind.

In short: I want to be present in the here and now. I want to do my best, but not doing it all at once. This year I’m EMBRACING life!

I’ve done a lot of thinking, feeling and being present lately. And all this focus on embracing (and a few other things too, to be honest), made me too tired to even thinking about blogging for a couple of months. It just felt a bit too overwhelming. I’m getting around to starting, though. The last month I’ve been writing out blogposts in my mind again – and today I knew it was about time to start typing those thoughts up – getting my words out here again.

A lot have happened during the first months of this year, and I don’t even dare to promise to tell you anything about it. But I have lived and my kid has grown into an almost 7 year old.I’m just going to embrace that I’m back here again and that it feels good – like talking to an old dear friend(!)

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On another note. Have I told you how much I like having a spell checker? A LOT!!

Keep enjoying life and the weekend(!), we have had some sun today! And I’m off to play some meaningless, but still fun, games at facebook. I would love it if you join me And after that, and some sleep and maybe a few days of procrastination I’ll be back and change the heading to something spriny – and maybe find a new blog wear?!? We’ll see

Just a little note to wish my US friends: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I really wish we had adopted this holiday from you instead of Halloween – living in one of the richest lands in the world should make us give thanks as a nation at least once a year…..

I have so much to be thankful for, on top of my list are my kid, my faith and my family & friends (both in-real-life and online).

Wish you all the best!

anneberit <3

When the car is packed we’re going to our new house to spend our first night there (we’re moving for good later, this is a test drive of our new living quarters. Kind off. ). It’s exciting. I’m trying to remember to bring all that we need from the kitchen; coffee, cups, things to eat off and with… I feel there is something I’m forgetting, hoping it’s only a small thing.

Tomorrow MT is spending his day at the new school while I unpack and have a meeting with my new boss and coworkers.

You can be sure that I’ll bring my camera and blog about our new home later, but there is no broadband in the house so I’m going to bit my fingernails tonight. No, I’m kidding – I’ll be watching a movie while getting my new office up and running

See you later (and if you want to be kept updated through this whole event (haha), follow me at twitter – I’m Limefjord).

Needed something new to look at today, so I made a heading I’ll probably change it soon to something with less images, but just now it fills it’s purpose. Let me know if it looks strange on your part.

Happy Fall Season!

So I did it. I upgraded my WordPress blog to the 2.8.4 version; hopefully wormfree(!) I dared to do the automatic upgrade – and it did the work in barely 10 sec. No, I’m not kidding. It was really fast. I am not that fast upgrading normally, so this was super!!

And then, off course, I had a few plugin problems – but I think everything is solved now (and the bad plugin is deleted from the system). PLEASE let me know if you find anything wrong, strange or not working

I’m heading to bed soon, another early morning tomorrow.

I’m looking through a few of my archive posts – and I found this posted on August 20. 2007 I just love being reminded not to weed my garden. Ha ha.

To avoid tiredness all day: Go to bed at a decent time!!!

*/when will I ever learn?!

I’m not sure who was more excited, me or him, but right now he’s at school having his first day in 1. grade. I got to go after meal, he has an older pupil looking after him and do know the place well so he was ready to face it alone for a couple of hours. I’m so proud of him and so happy for all that he will learn and all the questions he will figure out. Right now I’m drinking my first coffee of the day (oh, yea, early morning start) and is browsing a few blogs and other favorite places online. I have photos to unload from my camera, but I’ll get to that later.

Have a beautiful Monday!

This morning started with a SMS that told me a 17 year old had died. It is so sad. And the youths, the close friends and the not so close friends, have been gathered trying to face this by being together. I’ve joined them, as well, for a few hours, and we are meeting up again tomorrow.

It’s not easy grasping death when you are 17 and full of future and possibilities. It’s not easy grasping when you are 38 either, but by then you know a bit more about life and have a few more life lessons learned.

I’m so glad lots of helping hands are involved, though, and for not standing in this alone (and neither are the family or the youths) – I guess I’ll be talking with the family as well tomorrow, starting to prepare for the funeral next week.

If you pray, please pray for us all. This is going to be a hard week for many in our neighborhood and especially hard for the close family and friends.

MT lost his first tooth today.

He was so happy with a big grin on his face when he got home from kindergarten.

“Mamma. Mamma. See, my tooth is lose!” he shouted. “It came lose when I ate a bit of apple.”

He’s been waiting and wondering about this for weeks and months. He have friends losing their teeth – when will he?!

Today, my kid. Today it’s your day to lose a tooth.

He and Grandpa sat in the sofa talking about how the tooth could come out. They had some fun the guys talking about using a string and what not.

In the end, during dinner, the tooth more or less just fell out with MT saying: “The tooth came out. Where is a glass of water?!” (Right in front you, my dear, we usually drink water at the dinner table.)

By now he’s happily sleeping; eager to see what the tooth fairy left him the minute he wakes up tomorrow. (And, no, it’s not me telling him about the fairy…..but I might as well help her. Grandma chipped in as well, since they were here when the tooth came out…).

On another note.
My vacation is over. Tomorrow is work and time in the office. Lots to prepare and get ready for; the next 3 weeks I’m the only pastor there… the next 4 Sundays I’m in charge of the service and the next 2 Saturday I have weddings. Hopefully there won’t be more than 5 funerals(!)

Better get me some sleep then! Night

in a few moths we are moving.

here is our new house and new neighborhood.

new beginnings are both scary and filled with hope at the same time.

we have a good feeling for this, but also sadness for what we are leaving behind.

all photos taken on July 2nd when we got to see the house and office and talk with the pastor and his wife (and a few others).