Oh wow it’s been a while since I last posted here.  I’m probably going to have to read this over a few times because while I type this I’m not evening looking at the screen.  I’m lying on the sofa watching the Gold medal game between Canada and the US.  After being sick last weekend with the stomach flu from hell, I managed to pick up a cold from the kids and felt completely miserable.  Of course I also had to work this weekend and midway during my 10 hour shift I almost passed out.  I never told anyone because I just wanted to push it behind me and work through my last shift of a 6-day workweek.  I ate some lunch and tried not to stress and luckily for me it seemed to improve my mood.  Ørjan called me at work to say that his mum was coming to pick up the kids and take them for the weekend.  This instanatly changed my mood and all I could think of for the rest of my shift was that we would finally have some time alone.  For the first time in a while we wouldn’t have to worry about Sophie coming up to our bed in the middle of the night or Magnus waking from another nightmare.  (They’ve been doing both almost on a weekly basis.)  During the last half hour of my shift Ørjan came down to work and waited for me while we closed.  We walked up to Hemnes Mat og Vin Hus and ate a nice dinner with wine (I know, we’re so grown up!) and walked home to a tidy toddler-free house!  We had a bit more to drink, watched the Olympics with some Saturday treats, and went to bed late feeling guilt-free.

This morning I slept in until 9:30!  I can’t remember the last time I did that and wow did it feel so good.  I instantly jumped up and made us a delicious breakfast and then fell right into work-mode.  I started planning the rest of my day and decided it was best to make use of the actual free-time that we suddenly had.  I picked up my Sonia Rykiel (H&M) order on Friday but waited until today to go through everything.  Pure love at first sight!  She really is the queen of knit.  I have to admit though, my favourite was the mini-Sonia knit doll and Sophie instantly fell in love with her.

I also made good use of my time and started sewing a new pillowcase for Sophie.  While Ørjan was busy installing wallplates in Magnus’ bedroom I was busy thinking about decor for Sophie’s.  I remembered that I had some extra Amy Butler fabric stored away and thought it would be perfect to use for such a small project.  I’ll be honest though, it’s been a while since I’ve used a/my sewing machine so it took at least a half hour to get used to the settings.  It also didn’t help that the instructions for my new sewing machine were only in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish.  I managed, but boy those diagrams were worse than the ones from IKEA.

The evening came to an end with dessert.  Fruit’s healthy so I’m ok with making it bad.

Right now Magnus is sitting on the sofa with us and it’s almost 11pm.  He’s been out of his bed three times already but we’re not stressing over it.  I’m too psyched about this game to get upset.  I am however incredibly tired and wish I could just go to bed now knowing we won the game.

It’s almost here!

Stupid me volunteered to take an extra shift on Saturday which means I won’t have the time to place my order online. Luckily I saved and organized a list for Ørjan so he can do it for me that morning. (If he doesn’t forget!) It was smart to take the shift because I’ll need the money to pay for my order ($300+ US) but it’ll mean yet another Saturday spent at work. Sigh. All in a day’s work I guess? It’s a good thing that a Saturday shift pays around $400.

Sunday was pretty much a wash for all the plans we made.  We intended to do so much but spent most of the day being lazy and eating late.  Since lately I’ve been cooking more “Chinese” food (all the stuff from childhood) we’ve had an abundance of rice and leftover goodies.  Sunday’s breakfast/lunch of a simple egg-friend rice with left over buns.  So good.  It’s what we needed too… comfort food at its best.

We read the Sunday edition of VG, cleaned the kitchen while the kids napped, and just lounged around without worrying about a thing.  Now it’s Monday and I’m thinking about having a smoothie (I need the nutrients) but I can’t shake this drowsy weekend feeling.

We spent this weekend at Ørjan’s mum’s and this time I really took advantage of it.  I ate, took a couple naps, and I must have played Guitar Hero for at least 12 hours.  We drank wine and cider and even managed to get Ørjan to play a few songs.  We considered going to see Død Snø but there was no way you could pry the guitar from my hands.  When we have someone available to babysit we take it.  I mean it.  It felt so good to actually get out there and do what I wanted.  Usually we just sit around and watch downhill skiing or sit and talk, but this time I stayed glued to the tv/xbox and wasted time and had a few laughs.  I loved it.  And Marit I’m not addicted!  Some other good news is that a notice arrived in the mail for me from UPS Norge and I’m pretty sure it’s the latest Maven package from thisnext.com.  The only problem with this weekend was that we took Kitty out with us but we didn’t bring him back because we couldn’t find him!  I’m not really worried because he’s safe out there but the weather’s a bit bad.  Now we have a full week ahead of us before Ørjan’s off for a while.  Monday’s not going to be easy to wake up to but at least I had fun this weekend.