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?!“

Songbird Avenue is having a scraplift challenge for September, and here is my go:

I scraplifted this page from Angela Powers. Using this months kit “Autumn Woods”.

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.

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

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.