American in Norway

We were able to take my parents to Krakow,Poland this past week.... WOW.. what a BEAUTIFUL city.... Promise to show more photos of this amazing city...but first hop on over to Communal Global & see what women around the world have been up to today..

OK... had a little get together with my American girlies ... & my girlfriend Tracy admitted that although SHE never reads my blog, her mother does ! Well her mamma is on her way over to Norway & I look forward to meeting her ! See you at lunch on Friday ... Anyhoo .... I would love to catch you up .. but at this point , I fear my head will slam into the keyboard . I can not remember the last time I have been THIS TIRED ... maybe when the kids were newborns ? I feel like I have been running non stop since the end of June .... Awesome vacation in the US ... 4 days home/ work ... off to England back home... one week home/ work ... My parents & Dane arrive ... 3 days home/ work off to Poland... 3 days home... trying to get my home ready to have TV cameras in all of my closets ... ( wanna talk STRESS?) Friday , I put mom & dad on the bus 4:30 am ... (I am a ROTTEN daughter ) 9 am Bjørn & ...

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...

Happy Birthday Baby girl.... I should have posted this yesterday... Running just a little behind... Bjørn & I also celebrated our 14 year anniversary yesterday... Love you blue eyes... (ok it is cheesy to re-post my post from LAST year? ... its all still true!) Yes..Aug 3 is a very big day in our house.....

So the BEST bits about my weekend in England.... first... I love saying ... "oh,yes, I jet jetted over to England for the weekend...tally ho.." Pretty cool isn't it? There were sooo many GOOD no, make that GREAT things about last weekend... Just seeing MY GIRLS.. & knowing no matter how many years pass betweenn getting all of us together... things never change between us.... I am soo blessed to have so many NEAT friends from all over the world.... This was the first time, all of us had children & we were able to get them together.... Another cool thing about all of our kiddos... they are all multicultrual... & bilingual... (ok.. one of them isn't but no matter... we love her anyway... :-) We had Eva.. who was of course an American/Norwegian... Then we had Norwegian/Dutch & finally English /Slovakian Pretty impressive when you think we could put all of the kids 6 & under together & they would find a language to speak... VERY COOL... Probably my ...

I KNOW... it seems like EXCUSES EXCUSES as to why I never write anymore... But really... in my defense... Eva & I came back from the states...(without Dane) had 4 days to TRY to unpack & do a load of laundry before we took to the skys AGAIN... Guess where we went..... Hello little plug to RYANAIR ... yes, I LOVE YOU RYANAIR.... I would love anything that took me to see my loved ones for a mere $25 each way...LOVE LOVE LOVE you! (this is a view of our area....pretty, isn't it?) Can you guess where we went? Still noooo idea? I knew the Fish & Chips would give it away.... Eva & I went across the pond to see some of my bestest friend from the GOOD 'Ol SEABOURN Cruise line DAYS... Us... in the good Ol SEABOURN days... sigh.... (somewhere in Greece) We had so much fun...just sitting out & having a glass (or 2) of wine catching up on each other lives.... meeting each others babies.... Oh the BABIES.... wow... I have about 500 pictures I have to show y...

One of the benefits of writing a blog .. is having a forum for my thoughts/views/opinions... on things...good or BAD. kimberling oaks horrible management s As y'all know... I do a pretty fair amount of traveling... I should be better about posting reviews here... There have been many places in the past year which have been AWESOME... I have NEVER E V E R felt so compelled to post a BAD review... a really HORRIBLE review.. But here it goes... Kimberling Oaks resort mold mildew horrible management offensive As I mentioned in my previous post.. we had a HORRIBLE stay at Kimberling Oaks resort in Kimberling City,MO.. on Table Rock Lake. I have never in all of my years of travelling, encountered people like the owners of this resort... What started out as a misunderstanding which would have been rectified by a simple apology from the owner.. ended up making this one of my worst stays anywhere EVER... I will attempt to make a very LONG story shorter... 15 min. after arriving to the ...