Since I started to grow out my hair and keep my face more natural than I usually do, Ørjan’s been commenting on how much I’m starting to look like my mom. (Not that that’s a bad thing either.) I’m starting to think he might actually be right. Well, just a little. While my younger sister definitely looks like our mom, I believe I look more like my dad. Either way I guess I just look like me.
I used to take self-portraits every month (especially when I was pregnant) but I haven’t really felt like it in a long time. With the new year here I thought now was a better time than ever to start up again. Here’s me in 2010. Maybe a little happier? I’m definitely less occupied with trying to look just right and this is me. I don’t think anything has changed at all except the wallpaper in the background.
I can’t believe how tiny they used to be. Magnus was born February 7th, 2007, weighing 2040 grams, and Sophie February 13th, 2008, weighing 2875 grams. I love my big kids so much.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Although we stayed at home it was great fun. We had so many kids come to our place and more than half of them were definitely scared. We had quite a setup (for these parts) with decorations, music, and extra candy and chocolate. Both Ørjan and I took turns answering the door with the vampire mask and groaning and screaming. The kids were definitely surprised. I lost count of how many screams followed by, “Åh herregud!” I heard tonight. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve seen kids walk home from school and stop infront of our house to look at the decorations, and yesterday I actually had people tell me that kids have been talking about our house. Even the visitors themselves told us that they had been tipped off to our house. Ørjan and I laugh at this a bit because we just think about how many kids had been texting eachother with their phones. If it sounds like I’m complaining I’m not – I loved it! I’m so happy that almost all of our goodies are gone! (Something that Ørjan isn’t so excited about since I told him he could have the leftovers.) Halloween isn’t exactly popular over here but over the past 4 years that I’ve been here I’ve seen more kids going out and more decorations at a few shops. (Did I mention that this was the first year I saw spiderweb being sold?)
Poor Magnus was a bit scared as well. A few times he tried to come down the stairs and saw the masks they were wearing and ran back up screaming. My poor guy. Maybe next year it’ll be a little more fun and a little less scary.
The entire night I couldn’t help but think about past Halloweens from my childhood. Halloween was the only holiday we really celebrated and it’s probably the only one that I have good memories of. For a long period my mother was a Jehovah’s Witness but my dad always made sure to give us a great Halloween. He’d take my sister and I out during the first week of October to pick up makeup, costumes, and decorations, and there was never a price limit. In the later years my parents would sit on the bench on our porch wearing masks and would pretend to be dummies. When the trick-o-treaters would come up to the door my parents would come to life and scare the hell out of them. Each time I answered the door I thought of my dad. I think that Halloween is the only time I have fond memories of him.
This year we really had a great Halloween and I can’t wait for the next one. Our kids will be bigger, we’ll be more prepared, and it’ll fall on Saturday – party!
I spy Sophie.
I’m not sure what else I see in this photo yet. Click on it to read my first reactions.
I haven’t bothered to weigh myself yet but my jeans fit like a glove and my stomach looks much smaller already. Whatever I’ve been doing must be working and it only makes me more motivated to keep going and push myself. Today while I was trying to take practice shots for my passport photos (I cannot have another nightmare photo for five years like my previous one) I noticed that my face has also slightly thinned out. Crazy but true. Now I don’t feel so guilty about stealing the T-O-B from a mini toblerone at 4am this morning. I was having some serious hunger pangs and it was the only thing I found in the fridge that didn’t require cooking.
In other news – I actually feel good today. The past three days have been pure hell. My uterus has been playing a cruel joke on me after I got my IUD inserted. It just might be time to find another form of bc.
Something quite strange came up during the latest phone conversation with my sister the other night:
Katelyn: OMG It looks just like you!
Me: (Thinking, “Why did she just call Sophie it?”)
Katelyn: Don’t you think it’s crazy that he looks just like Ørjan and she looks just like you?
Me: I don’t know, I don’t really see it…
I mean it. I really don’t see it. I see that some days Magnus makes similar faces that Ørjan makes, and that Sophie has my eyes, but other than that, I really don’t know. What do you think? This isn’t me swimming for compliments or reassurance, but rather some confirmation that my children look something like themselves and are not carbon copies of us.
Am I just crazy? Am I the only one missing something here?
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