Yesterday in a nutshell!

Today was a drizzly, cold, grey day in Horten, and knowing that snow is on the way I'm feeling rather unprepared. The autumn has been so beautiful, almost like an extension of the summer.
My time in Horten is nearly up, tomorrow is my last day of looking after the boys, so this post is about a lovely day we had this week, and the usual antics we get up to.

8am, Ben is up and raring to go. Laura is up, but not entirely there. I have discovered a secret weapon, in the form of 'Playhouse Disney', and once its switched on and child placed in front of, it can render the child completely silent for at least half an hour. The downside is that I find myself singing 'Vi her en oppdrag' and 'en hyggelig by helt' and so on and so forth, all day long. Forferdelig!

Anyways, by this time, Timmy is voken, so we hasten to breakfast. Another strange Norwegian concoction, is Kaviar. Fish eggs in a tube isn't exactly appealing to me, but woefully Timmy loves it, so I always have a fishy lunch to look forward to.

By and by, the sun begins to shine so brightly, that it seems like a crime to stay inside any longer, so we all set out on a picnic. As previously stated, the sky was extraordinarily blue, (just to send that point well and truly home!)

Tim and Ben love being outside, and Ben talks nine to the dozen, about fairies, nuts, trees, lions, lamp posts, dragons, swords, and of course pirates! On the way home, Ben grabs my hand and says "Sliten, sliten....jeg er sliten"; translation being "Exhausted, exhausted... I am exhausted." Very cute, I'm sure, but I fail to see the humour as I'm pushing a very heavily laden pushchair, on an extremely rocky road, up a seemingly never ending hill!

Nicky gets home at 3pm, and the boys are always ecstatic to see her.

And so continues my day, in a very uneventful manner, but it doesn't bother me too much.

As my Dad would quote "Scrooge found that everything could give him pleasure", and that is because he saw things with new eyes, and appreciated every second given to him. And that is a big example.

I'm gonna miss the cheeky little numptys. They seem to look after me, way more than I look after them. Hope I'll always be thier favourite Aunty.

Ok, this has taken far to long to write. I'm being distracted you see, by Ben Hur, my favourite movie ever, and its quite impossible to concentrate on anything when Charlton Heston is glaring at you, with that lopsided grimace of his. He honestly looks like he's gonna cry sometimes.

Ahh well, that's all for now folks, but updates are in the pipeline! Snakkes.

Me and Ben get lost in the teppe, and tend to giggle an awful lot!

Tim wakes up so we get breakfast.



We went for a picnic, that day. The boys LOVED it!
Its impossible to describe how blue the sky was. I totally dig this little paradise I found, near to where we live. It reminds me of England in a way, what with its mighty oaks and rolling countryside.

Sofia came for a wisit! The boys lurve her, and she really is a jolly ol jenter.