American in Norway

H.. Holy Smokes .. I almost missed it! I have been sooo good during this challenge.. and I almost BLEW IT. I guess I could use House Hunters Int. for an H.. and how odd, that they aired our episode again on Friday.. and although, we don't get the show here... I ALWAYS know when it is playing.. my FB account and blog end up with tons of hits... I have posted several times about doing the show .. and have mixed emotions.. Overall the experience was good..  and almost 2 years later they are still airing it.. The bad side - right after it aired.. I followed some of my blog traffic to a couple of sites where people just RIPPED ME UP... pretty mean stuff.. and I was pretty upset .. (thus the real reason I turned down the REAL Housewives of Scandinavia) part of the reason while I stopped blogging for a while. I am way tooo thinned skined to know what you REALLY think.. :-) I will just leave it at this... Reality TV isn't real.. for the most part. :-) I can't speak for other...

So remember how I told y'all we were going to get our 15 min of fame?... Well I guess it is OK to spill the beans now... as we are finished filming the first part of our segment... Yours truly, plus family are going to be on HGTV's House Hunters International ! Kindda cool eh? - It was a lot more work than I had anticipated.... We filmed for over 13 hours for about 4 min of FOOTAGE! R U KIDDING ME? I am a bit nervous about how it will all turn out, because I will admit I CRIED several times during the shoot... I KNOW... WHAT.A.BABY. (Have you ever seen an episode of House Hunters where they cry? OMGosh ... should be interesting what they end up with..) I should have warned the producers NOT to ask me how I feel about having to leave my family in America... (here I go again with the big fat tears...) Dane & Eva did an AMAZING job! Can you tell I am a proud mamma ? My mamma & daddy being interviewed in front of their house... My niece Jenna getting in on the fil...