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Hello November | Thankful #1

anneberit — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:46:31 +0000

Hello November! You came warm, wet and foggy!

Yesterday and today we have been in a kind of Halloween mode around here. Not that we celebrate the holiday much, but even here in Norway you should work hard not to notice it when the date drawing close; with the toy stores crammed with all kinds of spooky and creepy costumes – and lots of candy everywhere. I have said for a while that I wish the holiday we should adopt from the US was the Thanksgiving holiday, not the Halloween one. I know we do not have the history for these holidays anyway, but the stores most certainly do not let that stop the assortment overload of scary masks and buckets for candy now have it?! So why not also adopt Thanksgiving and give it our own little homey twist?

I can think of a million things we can be thankful for, both as a nation and for me personally – I have off course not the time or energy to write down or say out loud all the millions of things I am thinking of (!) BUT I really would love and like to write down one (or a few) things I am thankful for each and every day of this month. So maybe we haven’t adopted this holiday of Giving Thanks in our country just yet, but that will not stop me from having my own little thanksgiving party in my life, now does it.

There even might be a turkey at the end of the road.

And, with me I am taking the Thankful Prompt Katrina Kennedy have gathered together for the month. You can find it here at her site Capture Your 365 (you should become a member and start sharing your thankful photos as well! I’d love to see you there!). I love all the thankful prompts and will try to fill each and every day with a photo of something I am thankful for as well as the words.

For November 1st I will use the prompt and just state the obvious.
This is the person that I am the most thankful for:

I guess it was no surprise, at least not if you have been following this blog for the last 6 years. But it is also so very true! There is no one else on this earth of ours that I am more thankful for than my sweet and happy kid. No matter if the day have been filled with grumpiness and unhappy words and faces (like this afternoon. Sigh. Mine as well as his). Love you big boy!

Now, the really fun thing would be to hear what you are thankful for as well. Please share some words or thoughts or link us up to your blog or photo in the comments. Thanks!

CY 365 Blog Hop | April Photos

anneberit — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:00:53 +0000

I can hardly believe it, but another month of snapping away photos (more or less) everyday has come to an end (and to be honest a new month is well on it’s way!). I’m so happy for all the memories I have gathered from the month of April. And this time I want to show you some photos from our Easter week. MT had a few days off school and we had some time on our hands to be together and enjoy the beautiful spring weather, in between me working at church.

Here we go:

18. April 2011 | First Go In Cold Spring River Water

19. April 2011 | Got To Love Some Ice Cream

21. April 2011 | Walking Home From Church
(look he's got his drawing block and pencils with him, as always).

22. April 2011 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY my son. 8 is gonna rock!

23. April 2011 | Having Fun Playing With Birthday Gifts

24. April 2011 | So Glad Grandma & Grandpa Had Some Time To Stay After Church

25. April 2011 | Going To The Pool

Find more of my photos in my Flickr stream or join me in the forum and gallery @ ">Capture Your 365. It’s such a friendly and encouraging place. In fact if you follow along on this blog hop, you’ll meet a few of us. Next up is: Tracy.

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Safe Journey Ahead!

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In case you get lost on your way, here is the full list of blogs:
1. Jill 2. Kate3. Katrina 4. Kathleen 5. Christi 6. Tammy 7. Anne 8. Tracy 9. Sharon 10. Lee 11. Michelle 12. Beth 13. Michele 14. Christine

365 Photo Project – week 7/52

anneberit — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:07:25 +0000

O.k. I admit it. I’ve been trying out a few different approaches on the 365-project side of things, and I haven’t been absolutely perfect in any of them. But I’ve still had some fun and learned a whole lot about me, photographing and blogging. So I’m not afraid to try it ONE MORE time This time I’m using my handy with-me-to-almost-all-places-camera; my cell phone. It doesn’t take super good photos, but this is about preserving memories from each day and not about capturing images for wall hanging…. or so I tell myself I’m using the ShakeIt app for iPhone to turn my photos into Polaroid (mostly because it’s fun to shake the phone and for the most amazing sound it makes… hehe). To make the photos more alike (kind off), I’m planning to use this approach for the next year. I might change my mind later, but I can live with that. I’m kind of used to being me by now and I love to change it all up from time to time. So I’m not making any promises…

Her is the seventh week of the project – in photos and a few words:

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The clothes hung outside for days while I was waiting for sunny weather. It never came, so eventually I took them in…. (June 8th-2010)

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I always need some Sudoku at bedtime. I love to figure out the difficult ones, but sometimes I just have to sleep on it a couple of nights before I solve them… (June 9th-2010)

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I stopped by my parents on the way home. A beautiful day, and my mom cooked me dinner. Nice! (June 10th-2010)

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In the afternoon MT found his old game and we played a couple of rounds. . (June 11th-2010)

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Love to have a few flowers around me. (June 12th-2010)

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Having some fun with MT. Playing a sort of catching – throwing game over the table. Great to have the Sunday off and just be together the two of us having plenty of time to do whatever we want. (June 13th-2010)

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It’s been a lot of not so good weather the last week. Rain, rain and gray. It’s been plenty of this to think about and to prepare too, so this time I took my photo in the evening. (June 14th-2010)

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SEE YOU NEXT WEEK! Or follow me on Flickr more or less everyday.

365 Photo Project – week 5/52

anneberit — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:18:21 +0000

Playing a bit catch-up here, but her is the fifth week of the project – with photos and a few words:

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Another Football Match Tuesday. This time he got to try out being keeper; and he loved it (most of the time). (May 125th-2010)

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I went on a little trip with my colleagues down to the sea side. Nice. The walls of the room where we stayed were paper thin – and we girls had to keep our voices down… Not so easy. LOL. (May 26th-2010)

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My dad brought me my bike. Nice to see you old fella. One of these days I’m going to give you more air for the tires. Then we might get going somewhere. Lots of great bike trials around here! (May 27th-2010)

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Ah, not a paper on the floor. Pure bliss. Our living room as of late May (May 28th-2010)

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We went to a football cup in the neighborhood. The team did some really good matches, but lost a few as well. MT was keeper the whole time and did well, even though he didn’t catch them all. He was a bit down about that, but we figured even a super good keeper misses a few balls now and then – and he’s just seven and new to this keeper business – so lets not aim for the sky. He loved the price, though, it’s proudly placed on his window still. (May 29th-2010)

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He was trying to kick the football while standing on his hands. I have no idea why (May 30th-2010)

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Once a week MT goes home from school. Because of the big road he’s not allowed to walk here alone – so I go and meet him. Today he made a run for it. (May 31th-2010)

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SEE YOU NEXT WEEK! Or follow me on Flickr more or less everyday.

365 Photo Project – week 4/52

anneberit — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:30:41 +0000

Playing a bit catch-up here, but her is the fourth week of the project – with photos and a few words:

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A big day. Playing his first two football matches of his life. Jumping all around the football field out of pure joy for the game. (May 18th-2010)

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Today was sunshiny and warm. Some afternoon showers came, but not much. MT was eager to start his football training and brought his new ball since I was in a meeting and he had to wait for me after the training was finished…. (May 19th-2010)

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It started out this beautiful sunny day with warm, warm weather. I was so happy to hang the laundry outside and did a little bit of that and a little bit of this, sorting my mind after a busy week. In the early afternoon I started sewing on a gift project when suddenly a thunder storm came. I jumped to my feet, closing down all things computer and telephone. Then I was ready to jump out to save the laundry and the rain started pouring down and I got soaking wet trying to save my now really wet laundry (note to self: next time let it hang, the sun is bound to come back sooner or later). It rained hard for a while. I almost forgot to get MT home from school. (May 20th-2010)

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Today we had White Sunday service in church with the youths of our neighborhood (ages 6 to 15). It was nice (May 21th-2010)

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MT helped me write down what we needed at the store. He added a few things on his own too, like lots of candy and a magazine with toy gift. Then he drew a few faces and wrote important above. I love that he’s starting to put the words together and hope he can find a way to write down all the stories he love to tell The day was spent cleaning the house and chatting away on Designer Digitals (at least I did), MT was outside playing and spent some time in front of the TV too. (May 22th-2010)

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White Sunday was glorious in more ways than one. After church we spent the day relaxing in front of the computer + in action out on the lawn playing football and such. So nice to spend time together. In the evening we moved our beds upstairs and to the bedrooms far away from the morning sun MT was not so sure if he liked the idea of moving bedroom, but when the bed was in place and he got to decorate with his favorite things, he had some great fun. And he told me he slept really well. (May 23rd-2010)

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The heath and the early morning sun made us move upstairs. At least for the summer. MT got to use his new bed covers that he got for his birthday and was a happy camper. This is after the first night. Later I hope to paint this room and make a few images for the wall. But so far it suits him just fine. (May 24th-2010)

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SEE YOU NEXT WEEK! Or follow me on Flickr more or less everyday.