Sometimes I must laugh out loud about the searches that’s landing on my site, yesterday these two made me giggle:

1. using lime to remove dead animal odor
2. how do i get lime off my boots

I’m not quite sure they found what they were looking for…..

….but if my blog has a funny smell I’m counting on you to tell me!!

MT is home sick today. Hope he feels better soon, we are planning to go to the farm tomorrow. I reckon he wants to go no matter how he feels, though And he’s not that sick, just a common cold, but he has slowed down, his nose is running and he’s sneezing and coughing, so he’s better off home today. Now he gets some rest so he’ll be ready for new adventures tomorrow.

Now we both have stayed to long on the computers. So I’m shutting off the machines for a while (I guess I will pop in now and then, can’t help my self. No wonder MT thinks computers are fun, I think so too. We are some geeks ). Mainly we need to focus on the house, some food, the mail and maybe take a trip to the store if we can get bothered by that.

Btw, it’s snowing today. So more winter for us, no wonder I’ve started thinking about Christmas lately

Have a nice Friday, everyone!!!

My Wednesday didn’t exactly go as planned. I did not sweep my floor, I did not participate in the speed scrap at scrapmatters and my car did not get winter tire in time…..

Why?
Because of the snow. Because I got stuck in an uphill road with my dads car. Neither coming up or down.

I had to borrow my dad’s car because then my car only had summer tires. He came to my rescue and was about to change my car’s tires. I borrowed his car to go fetch MT from preschool, just like I do every day. I should never have attempted to drive up the steep uphill road, though, up to the school and kindergarten. I kind of knew I wouldn’t be able to drive up it when I saw the other car on the left side of the road, in the ditch.

I got about half way up the hill before the car started spinning. I did not dare to back it down the hill. I’m not very good at backing cars on slippery roads, that much I know. I was also afraid of crashing into the other car (the one in the ditch). So I put on the brakes and the signal and let the car stay where it was. I left the engine running, thinking it might make it easier for others to see it when the lights were on. I went downhill to ask the lady that had driven her car off the road if she was okay. And she said she was. She was on the phone, I imagined that she spoke with someone to help her get the car out of the ditch. I left and went uphill to pick up MT, and to borrow the phone so I could call my dad. I kind of hoped someone could help me drag the car up the hill, but then I also knew my dad was the right man to figure out what was the smartest move. I made MT put on his boots and a warm jacket. I knew we had to wait for a half an hour or so before my dad would come. He had to walk up from our house, about a mile away. MT did not find it funny standing by the car waiting. (I didn’t find it that funny either, I wish I never had driven up that hill at all. I should have known better, it’s not the first time this uphill road is difficult. Embarrassing and irritating.)

Uphill/ downhill. My car got stuck at in the left corner of the second photo. The first car in the ditch lay a little below the green box at the right side of the road and the other car stopped dead a few meters before the traffic sign.

Anyway after what seemed like a long long time, my dad finally arrived. Poor guy. And he got in the car and backed it down the hill, slowly, slowly, slowly, because the road was seriously slippery! When he was well down, he came out of the car and went to talk to the woman with the other car. We both did ask her if there were something we could help with and such. While we were talking we stood right below her car and there wasn’t much traffic in the road, since school and kindergarten now were closed.

We didn’t pay much attention to the car at first. But I saw it driving down, not fast, but not slowly either. Suddenly I noticed that the wheels didn’t turn, and I realized she had lost control of the car in the same moment as my dad yelled “get out of the way!“. I grabbed MT and pushed him into the ditch close to the other car. I fell, but thankfully it didn’t matter. Just seconds later the car crashed into the ditch right below our feet. No one got harmed, but it was so close that it made me really scared.

This was the day my son - ALMOST - got run over!
MT keep saying “I thought the car should run me over. My legs are all shaky”.

I don’t think the driver of the car got all this. I’m not sure; she never did ask us if we were alright. She might have been occupied with other things, I don’t know. But the event shock me up quite a bit. Maybe more than it did MT. I knew how bad it would be if the car had hit him. That thought made my legs shake as well!

My dad drove MT home while I started walking downhill (dad’s car have only two seats). That helped me shake off the scary thoughts and focus about how great and fantastic it was that no one got hurt.

So that was my first day of snow this winter. A bit more scary than I like it, but thankfully we are going strong, both me and the kid - and my dad. And he came back the very next morning changing the 3 remaining tires, so now I’m all set for winter. Thank you dad!

But that uphill road I tend to not drive. It’s easier just to walk that bit for a while………

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I’m planning to make a scrapbook page about this. But I don’t have photos from this, so it’s on hold right now. This is what I made about our walk to preschool on Thursday, that was a beautiful winter morning, a much better day!

Tonight at the bathroom MT held his soapy hands against me and said:

Mummy! Smell this soap!

Well, I did, and said:

So, what do you think it smells like?

MT answered right away with a clever smile:

I think it smells a little bit like INTERESTED!

lol

PS: the photo is not linked to the story with other means than the fact; it is soap…. a cute elephant soap that looks really interesting to me, wonder if it is interested??!

These two days, October 3rd and 4th, is really special to me and to our little family. 3 years ago, on these two days, me and MT met in Addis Abeba - and became family.

I’m not good with remembering every date that matters, but these two stands out in my mind.

I smile every time I remember his big smile and his love of kicking the ball. I almost cry when I think about how sad he was the first half an hour away from the other children and nurses he had spent his life with for so many months. He cried his heart out in frustration and fear of the new life. But I also remember his curious smile in the morning and the happiness when he was given a ball to play with and how our connection grew stronger each day. Becoming mother to him is the most important thing that have happened in my life. It’s not always easy, but I have no doubt that we belong together and that we love each other.

MT doesn’t care that much about this day, though, for him the most important stuff is here and now. But he enjoys looking at photos and asks “when are we going back to Ethiopia again? Tomorrow?!“

Another month and another gorgeous kit from Songbird Avenue. It’s almost like I want the months to change faster….

This month the fall is in focus and the colors are warm and earthy. They have timed up with Two Sisters Design and this month’s proceeds will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Good for all the fall photos we are going to snap The colors are really starting to show here in the north.

So far I’ve only used it once for this scrap:

I’m testing out the Twitter Tool plugin at the moment. Not sure if I like it to post a blog-post each day just yet. I’m also a bit frustrated since it isn’t in sync with my time, meaning that some of todays tweets won’t show up until the Saturday digest. If there only was a control for setting what time is my time and a way to decide when I want the digest to post (like right after midnight or something). If I take a closer look I might find those settings, though, but please let me know if any of you know how

Another thing. I joined in on the Speed Scrap at Scrapmatters this evening. I’ve looked forward to it all week, finally a time that suits me But I almost had to give it up because we were late home and MT was a slow mover tonight. He even lost his pc-hour for the weekend before he got tucked into bed. (we have this rule that he have to eat when there is time for eating, if not he goes hungry to bed. tonight he was so eager to spend some time playing on the computer that he said he wasn’t hungry. off course he was. so right before bed he asked politely if he could get something to eat. he was hungry for sure, so it wasn’t fair to send him to bed without any food - last time I did that he woke up in the middle of the night wanting something to eat - so I asked what he was willing to give up. and he told me that he should have no computer time for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. so there. it will be a good weekend )

Anyhow, in the end I got to play, but boy did the evening go fast!
Now I’ll better tuck myself in, it’s half past midnight already! And tomorrow is the first day of Dyrsku’n

Note! I’ve changed a few things after the two hours was up, just because I wanted to make it a bit better.
If you want to see the orginal result head over here.

At the age of 5 MT is quite the story teller. He loves it when we have time to listen. And even though it’s still a bit strangeness to the stories (for us adult, I mean, they make perfectly sense to MT there and then ) - it’s certainly not because his body language comes in the way of the story. He can tell stories without words.

I can’t remember what he told me at the top of the old ski jump (or what to call it) - that we found in the forest next to us - but I know it was something funny and spectacular. I love these photos, they are so MT

If only I could tell stories like that in my sermons

Hope he never misses this side of him. I admire his ability of body control. That is something he brought from Africa that he should be proud off.

I’ve once seen an South-African mom proud of her daughter, she didn’t just sit there smiling (like many of us would to), she got up from her chair and made a dance in joy. That picture have stayed with me since, and I wish I could show joy like her. We Norwegian are so stiff when it comes to body language.

MT got the best saying for being really, really angry:

So angry that my teeth goes like a chain saw(!) Grrrrrr..

I can almost picture him doing that. But then he is one of those with a thousand expression. When we couldn’t talk the same language three years ago that came in handy. It was almost like I understood what he said, just because his face had all this different looks. For the longest time he didn’t say yes at all (even thought he knew the word) instead he lifted his eye brows a little…..and I had to look at him for an answer to every question. LOL.

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:

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.

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!