The first...

Yesterday we had the first now of the season, it is still September and we get snow!! It is too early, I am not prepared to be cold for the next 6-7 months. Is there any wonder I miss the heat of Texas. I’ll take heat and humidity any day over this crap.

On a positive note. Troy really likes this little girl at his daycare. He and Tiril has been the best of friends for a year now. Yesterday he asked her if she wanted to be his girlfriend, and she said yes. When he was telling me about it, he was all excited: Mamma, she said yes and that made me sooo happy.

Farfar

My grandfather.

Baby K

And his name is Kristian

Baby K

Here is baby K. He has lots of black hair and is really tiny for someone so big

He is here!!!

My sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy last night. He was 4520 grams and 55 cm. I can't wait to meet him. Congratulations Inger-Lise, Knut and Celina :)

Laundry

It is a chore most of us do from time to time. There are some people out there that seems to turn on their washing machine, let it run through the cycle, and then seems to think that the clothes should be left in there to age for a couple of days, I guess maybe they think the clothes should be left in the washing machine to dry, but you guys out there that do this: You reek! Yesterday I walked almost a block behind a couple of young guys that left this trace of sour smelling clothes in their wake. Do they not smell this themselves? Is there anyone out there who actually thinks that the smell is OK, that it is not offencive to other peoples noses?

Preparing for winter

I am absolutely positively exhausted today. I went to the gym for a step aerobics class this morning, and afterwards I spent a couple of hours hauling firewood into my basement. I have to get prepared for winter, it is probably not too far away.

I need a better paying job, I found the most awsome shoes the other day. I really really want them, but they cost about $150 :( I have to buy Troy snow shoes and they run about $100 a pair, and he should have two pairs, so bye bye hot shoes for mamma. Winter gear is really expensive (probably because we have to have it). With a growing boy I had to get two sets of raingear, two snow suits, he needs winter coats as well as wool undershirts and long johns. I love being a single mom, but it sure is hard to manage on one income.

Knerten, it is about time

We are still waiting. How long can you have 1.5 minute contractions every 10 minutes before something happens.

Still waiting

My sister is at my mom's. Her contractions are about 10 minutes apart, but there seems to be little progress. She has now had contractions for about 24 hours.

Waiting

My sister is expecting a little boy, though I am not sure that little is the correct term here.
Her due date was on the 12th, and yesterday they were going to induce labor, since they think my nephew is 4.4 kilos at this point. They went to the hospital and we were all excited that we were finally going to meet him, but he doctors at the hospital changed their mind. Instead of inducing her they tried a few things that might work to irritate the cervix enough to start labor. It turns out that my sister’s cervix is not easily irritated and so far she is not in labor. How big do they want this boy to be before they do something a little more serious about it. I am thinking that tonight I am making labor inducing pizza, and then taking her for a long walk, maybe she should clean my house while we are at it, I’ve heard that is supposed to work.

Troy

He chose his own outfit

Language Problems

I have to admit that I struggled a little with my Norwegian moving back here from Texas. I guess I just did some direct translation from English, and sometimes that works, and at other times it just makes people giggle and look at you like you are a bit retarded. Shellfish is one of those words that you can not say, here it is called shell-animal. When I was explaining to my mom that my house was growing on me, I got a blank stare in return, houses do not gro won people in Norway. Then there are other words that I just keep saying the English word with my dialect, and it means something completely different. I often say that something is black (which in Norwegian means broke), or i talk about my car (which means man). Needless to say that my sentences do not always make a lot of sense. Mostly this is not a problem with the people that know me, but it is a little embarrassing when I meet new people. Since my Norwegian sounds perfect, they expect me talk like any other native. Oh well, I guess a there are a few people out there that may assume I am a little on the retarded side.

Congrats!!

Congratulations to Frode, Ida and Ada. Little Ellinor was born last night and she is absolutely adorable.

Exercising

Since I started my diet I've been walking a lot, however I realized I had to join a gym. I took my first aerobics class last week, and have attended several since then. It is not easy being a single mom and fitting it into my schedule, but I am going to get back in shape so I just have to. It is actually kind of fun, and it makes me feel really good afterwards.
Now I just need to stay away from Troy's candy, and I will do fine.