Hurricane Humberto makes landfall

in my kitchen. I swear.. yes, it is wet outside, but the kids just keep messing up the house.

Humberto strengthened to a hurricane overnight, just prior to making landfall around 2:00 am CDT east of High Island, Texas. Maximum winds, in a small area to the north and northeast of the center, were near 85 mph at the time of landfall.

Humberto is now inland near the Texas-Louisiana boarder, moving northeast, and will weaken through today.

we are still looking at tornadoes here, just a slim chance.

on the other hand, I must be going through some serious hormones. Aunt flo left sunday and then returned and then left again this week. I am so upset about so many things that I should have control over, but do not. that I should be able to do something about, but feel that I am paralized and can not. I do not know if it is my diet, the weather, or the lunar cycle.

I am still bawling over the housing prospects in norway. I can not honestly see why. why I should be giving up what I have. what I have worked so hard to accomplish. why I should be walking away from everything. I do not see it. It makes me sick to think about it. all the houses that I thought were too freaking small but were compensated by the 'other aspects' are now not even possible. it would appear that we can barely afford even 1100 square feet of living space. now if I were not a stay at home mom, that would not be a big deal right? well crap. I am a stay at home mom, so that is a big deal. if I were taking my car with me and could run to town to kill the boredom, it would not be a big deal, oh but shit, I am not going to have a car. for those that think that public transportation is the bomb, bite me. I am not that way. my parents were not that way, their parents were not that way, my great grandfather had a mule and did not rely on public transportation, I am not one that has come from the type of people that rely on public transportation. our families have always had our own. horse/ buggy or truck or car but public transportation was not part of the equation.
my family may have spoiled me by always owning land and homes, large homes, and I truly feel that it is a step down to have less, irregardless of where I have it. hell, my grandmother hubbard got a used 4 bedroom house when she married in 1940 but she got a HOUSE.

Now I sit and I wonder, what defines me? My grandmother sent me a photograph of her daughter in law's fathers house. it was about what is in my neighborhood. she was totally impressed with that he was a pilot for a private jet company and could afford what amounted to about a $130K house in Georgia. What is my social status, what is my personal measure of success. do my family see me as a success or failure? Do my associates look at me, and see me or what I drive? do my customers respect me or what I do for a living? How important is it to me when my father seriously gets lost in my house trying to find the third bathroom. (Honestly, that was a poignant moment when he did.) I seriously felt today that if I were to live in one of those tiny apartments, even if it was in another country, that I honestly could not invite anyone over for the shame of it. to be back down the property latter from what I have now to what I would have to learn to live with is just so inconceivable that I was bawling for a full 1/2 hour. I seriously could bear living in a double wide trailer easier.

I considered pouting and still may. I considered just refusing to get on the plane, and I may still. I considered what it would take to keep making the payments on this house by myself, if I could handle roommates to make up the difference that I would have to in order to stay or if I should just give up the house completely, and move back to Montana. But I doubt that would be a solution. my income potential here is substantially higher and housing costs substantially lower.

What would I gain? and what would I lose? I seriously do not see the gain. in anyway, shape or form. there is absolutely nothing that holds my interest. Sverre suggested that I could go to England and Germany for the weekend, which brought a smile but now I think about it, hell, I could go to Washington DC, but I have never, in the 11 years that we have been rotting here, and could more easily afford it, we never do. We never do anything but my seeing Naomi, and him going home each year, the rest of the time, it is just living from day to day. never leaving the house and when that happens, the house becomes a seriously important part of your lifestyle.

but now that the tears have dried, I am resolved that all I can really do right now is worry about the next three weeks. so I will clean out the nursery, move my office / tv room in there and get this room ready for Krys/ Jordan and keep getting things put up on Craigslist to make enough room for everyone that needs to be here now.

Rethinking what would someone do to have the 'opportunity' to live a different life'. I wonder what that life would be. I could do it, but I do not know if I am brave enough. as quickly as I psyche myself into seeing the positive, it is gone, poof! and the reality sneaks back in. I am going to have to sell every single electric appliance that I have, not small list:
pancake griddle, wheat grinder, bread machine, toaster, waffle iron, coffee bean grinder, coffee maker, tea maker, can opener, microwave, food processor, air popcorn popper, blender, cake mixer, rice steamer, electric blanket, curling iron, blow dryer, hot rollers, radio, cd player, dvd player, replay tv recorder, ipaq music center, vcr, sewing machine, scanners, vacuum cleaner, roomba, printers, paper shredders, cordless phones, tv receivers, tv's, computer ups's, lamps, alarm clocks. it is just overwhelming how many things will be sold for 1/2 the value, and then replaced at 4 time the cost there.

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2 People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V.. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.

3 When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4 When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!

5 When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.

6 People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8 When people say "life is short". What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9 When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?

am I really? yes I am really

okay.

yes, I am really moving to norway. I do have my passport and for the moment, I am ready. I THINK.

Magnus bottom is doing 1000 times better. which is a really good thing. he is still not going often, but he is not uncomfortable when he goes. and no blood. ALWAYS a good thing.

as for my girls. I am taking a pair of heavy duty bolt cutters and cutting my girls umbilicord. they are the worse kind of me-llenium children and have turned me into a class A Black Hawk Helicopter parent and I am just about out of patience with them. jazz needs a new computer, momma, krys needs her power bill paid, momma, jazz needs to see her nephew, momma, krys needs car insurance, momma, jazz needs a doctor co pay, jordan needs a new carseat, krys needs her vehicle running, momma. jazz needs new tires, momma, krys needs a cell phone, momma

this momma is not sending a forwarding address to the junk mail either. ;)

krys / jordan are moving BACK HOME again, this month since jason is joining the marines and they will have no money and i am sick of paying her car insurance, phone, water, garbage, sewer, electricity, and groceries. so this will save me about $600 a month.

Blackhawk Parent of Generation Me-llinium kids

omg, I am guilty as charged, too funny. I do not 'helicopter' but I am a blackhawk (rescue) parent. giggle giggle

taking Krys to get an application. guilty

taking Krys to turn in application. guilty

calling Krys to make sure she is out of bed for work. guilty

going out with Krys to make sure she is hanging out with the 'nice' people at a bar. guilty. but not more than once a month.

finished the baby's session and custom designed birth announcements. that is one stresser off my plate.

sold the lunch meat slicer for $65, and got a $100 payment check, so will go to the bank monday. pay more bills off, less stress. sverre and I are going out tomorrow, to a concert, will have fun.

baked a new recipe today. made home made p'butter cookies using reeces p'butter and after I put each cookie on the sheet, I stuffed 5 milk chocolate chips into the dough and then baked for 12 minutes. HOLY CRAP they are good.

Dog Diet

I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina for my dog, Schatzi, and was in line to check out.

The woman behind me asked if I had a dog...... Duh!!

I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her NO.

I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital the last time, but that I'd lost 50 lbs. before I'd awakened in the intensive care unit with tubes coming out most of my orifices and IV's in both arms.

Her eyes bugged out of her head.

I went on with the bogus diet story and she was totally buying it.

I told her that it was an easy, inexpensive diet and that the way it works is to load your pockets or purse with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The package said the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was now enthralled with my story, particularly the tall guy behind her.

Horrified, she asked if something in the dog food had poisoned me and was that why I ended up in the hospital.

I said no, I'd been sitting in the middle of the street licking my ass when a car hit me.

neighborhood living rather than inside living

I am beginning to think that there was nothing new built since the mid 70's. but then I figured out that yes there was but the houses cost 3.5 million kroner, so not an option.

this one is very cute, if a bit small.

Baby Jordan - 6 Months Old

Sunday night his momma dumped him off to get a good nights sleep at his g'mas and he did really well. to start out he was trying very hard to crawl all over g'ma's office floor, and he did make it a few feet.

At dinner he was good about eating his sweet potatoes, but then he got indignant. So g'ma started his bath in the sink and then finished feeding him and that was quite alright. With dry diaper and clean p'j's, he took his bottle and snuggled up with Magnus for a bedtime story.

We read the first four chapters of an Osborne Tree House book and he was out like a light. Magnus was letting him hold his finger and Magnus covered up his toes so that he would stay warm and then Magnus went to sleep. sometime in the night, g'ma moved Jordan to his own bed in the nursery.
Early Monday morning, Magnus went in to check on Jordan and kept him company while he slept.

Getting the House Ready for Sale

is a full time job and do not let any realtor tell you anything else, it is a load of bull.


but here it is, course now I have to fix everything and the update the photos, but at least I have a start.

I am going to kill her

oh I swear, I am shutting off my cell phone.

DA (for dumb arse) offspring number 2 of 5 is beyond all forms of help.

she is quite possibly the rudest child known to man.

her flipping DA husband is 3 months behind on their rent because if he paid it then he would be flat broke. la de flipping da, your married, you have a 6 month old kid. suck it up.

he lost his ever loving mind and is quiting his $1100 a month job and joining the US Marines. Moving to Southern California and leaving her with 6 month old squeaker. DID NOT get a wartime SIGNING BONUS (20K with army) and SIGNED an agreement to NOT GET A CHECK until after bootcamp! 13 weeks later.

she now has to give up her house, and live with someone else since she makes a whooping $6.50 / hour at a part time job. now she has two choices, his parents that smoke like chimmeys or us whom do not and are richer than god (her words not ours). GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK

I tell her that there is no room for her 3 dogs, her three trucks and all her stuff. she must have a garage sale and clean house. she is like okay, HE WIGGS the flip out because he has to sell his RUSTED out 1985 POS chevy truck with an 8 inch lift kit that has as door and front quarter panel from another truck, and no bumpers because it just doesnt. and that it is not fair that she gets to keep the FOUR DOOR Blazer that will hold the stupid carseat for the baby. and he can only keep his fully restored 1973 VW Bug. and some BS about garage saling the XBox, not even an Xbox 360, but one from pre-1993

lately she has been stressed and pretty rude and disrespectful to me and I am sick of it and my husband her step dad is REALLY sick of it. there is no freaking way that all her stuff will fit in this house. My dh OFFERS to pay for her a storage unit.

Her Blazer broke down and her husband (the mechanic) made some modifications to TRY to get the new starter in and ended up over modifying the u joints and frying the electrical harness for the a/c. I PAID for the tow rather than let them FLIP up the truck that has 4 wheel drive. (do not get me started on why someone needs 4 wheel drive in HOUSTON TEXAS) anyways, the bill is $400.

I just paid for the groceries, her electricity, water, her garbage, and my dh paid her insurance and 1/2 her cell phone, and 3 new pairs of slacks for work (mandatory dress code).

I told his parents that SOMEONE else needs to help, (I am still sitting on a Rx glass bill that he PROMISED to make payments on, but has not in 3 months as they agreed,) DA Daughter will not call the father-in-law because she doesn't want to deal with him and would rather let the truck sit at the repair shop until she gets her first check and pay for it than actually CALL her father in law and make arrangements to pick up the STUPID BLAZER and let him pay for it.

I told her that I was not driving 5 miles to her house to pick her up and 5 miles back at 7 am each day for her to get to work. she was like okay fine.

OMG I have no critism for Andrea Yates, I swear, it takes a STRONG person to just say no and not get sucked into all the drama.

Eeeeeeeeeeeerik!!!!

the long and the short of it is:

went to Washington in July and August 07 to visit Naomi. that went fine.

came home and Sverre insisted that we sell EVERYTHING that is not nailed down and move to Norway by July 08
http://www.wretchedheathen.com

Krys's husband joined the marines and so they will not have any income for 4 months and she is putting entire house in storage and living with me for that time. HE is pitching a fit that he have to sell one of the three vehicles because there is no freaking room to store all of them. She is bringing the little punkrat that is now 6 months old
http://www.jordanjasonmiles.com

Jasmine is working for Directv and had various moments of drama each week, I am refusing to get sucked into the vortex. My plate is already too full.

Magnus has been sick for some months how with bowel issues and continues to see specialist. we have not solved the problem and are pretty concerned.

Erik is in the 2nd grade and has gotten so mouthy and disrespectful, we have tentatively canceled his birthday this year and he will remain 7 until we see a change in his behavior. ;)

I am craig's listing everything and the spammers are starting to irritate the dickens out of me. I need another cup of coffee.

Quiet Courage

Surrounded by Quiet Courage


Have you seen it? It's everywhere. I hope you find it as noble and inspiring as I do. What is it? It's the quiet courage that surrounds us at this time of year. Where can you see it?

• It is found in the young girl going into middle school for the first time. She hopes she will fit in, be liked by the other kids, maybe even be popular. She hopes, but she doesn't know. She is genuinely anxious. But still she goes. Quiet courage.
  
  
• It is found in the high school and college graduates who must look for a job. They took the summer off but now it's time to put together a résumé and start interviewing for a job. They are simultaneously hopeful and frightened. But still they go. Quiet courage.
  
  
• It is found in teenage boys going into their first year of high school. They've heard all the urban legends about what the upper classmen make the freshman boys do. They don't know how to separate truth from fiction. And, while trying not to show it, they are scared. But still they go. Quiet courage.
  
  
• It is found in parents taking a child to college for the first time. They arrive at school, unload the car, set up the room, and hook up the computer. They go shopping for sundry items, go out to dinner, and keep making small talk. Finally, when they can stall no longer, the moment comes when dad says, "Sweetheart, it's time for us to go." After tight hugs and long kisses they go separate ways. The parents get in the car and are sad. The child is sad too. But, as he or she walks into the dorm room, that sadness is instantly joined by self-doubt, loneliness, and anxiety. But still they go. Quiet courage.
  
  
• It is found in young children going to their first day of school. For years they have repeatedly been told by mom and dad, "Don't speak to strangers and never get in a vehicle with them!" Now they find themselves getting on a bus with a stranger while mom and dad stand there smiling, crying, waving, and taking pictures!
  
  There is so much the child secretly wonders about: What do I do when I get off the bus? How will I know where to go? And, at the end of the day, how do I know what bus to get on? How will I know when I get to our neighborhood? How do I know where our house is? Will mom or dad be there to meet me? There is so much they don't know. But still they go. Quiet courage.

I hope you have had a great summer. But now as we head towards Labor Day, guess what? It's time to go. It's time to dust off your dreams. It's time to set some clear, measurable weekly goals for your business. It's time to do those things you don't enjoy that are the necessary precursors of success (i.e. getting appointments, setting up meetings, motivating those on your team, reconnecting with customers, etc.) In short, it's time to go to work.

Not motivated? Wish you could blow off doing what's necessary? Tempted to coast into the Fall? Finding it more attractive to quit your business rather than crank it up? Wishing that massive success could come with minimal effort? Longing to avoid the inevitable hassles encountered on the road to uncommon success? Are you feeling some entrepreneurial loneliness, anxiety, or doubt? Welcome to the club. Look around you. You are surrounded by heroic, wonderful, quiet courage. Millions of people are experiencing the same things as you. But still they go. It's your turn to join them.

Committed to your quiet courage and unmistakable success.

Tom Barrett, Ph.D

BOUNCE - weight bounce sucks

Text Book Results:
1-3 months postop = 4.12 lbs loss each week
3-6 months postop = 2.45 lbs loss each week
6-9 months postop = 1.24 lbs loss each week
9-12 months postop = .12 lbs gain each week
12-15 months postop = .39 lbs gain each week

Starting weight: March 5, 2006 = 275 lbs
Surgery weight: May 31, 2006 = 247.5 lbs
Lowest weight: June 6, 2007 = 143 lbs
Current weight: August 31, 2007 = 150 lbs

Goal weight: 150lbs, first reached, February 7, 2007, bounced and reached second time March 21, 2007, bounced and reached third time, August 22, 2007

Indre Arna (Inner Arna)

Arna, Norway

Around 12,000 inhabitants live in this rural suburb. As it is situated behind mount Ulriken, Arna is geographically close to downtown Bergen, but it takes some time to drive there by road as there is no road tunnel as of yet. However, a train journey from Arna station to Bergen only takes eight minutes.

Weather forecast for Indre Arna in Bergen (Hordaland)

Weather in English

a bit smaller, a bit less expensive

We are still researching our options and finding that if we are willing to live on the other side of the mountain, we can afford to live on the other side of the world.

$272,895 US for 1280 square feet apartment and 172 square foot storage shed.

this is not ideal, but it is at least survivable. I am still fighting my own fears of just loosing so much and gaining so little. The shear thought of giving up every single electronic appliance is just mind numbing. today I went through the blankets cabinet and realized that the electric blanket would not work there.

the curling irons and blow dryers, the coffee maker and coffee bean grinder. Very daunting task of selling everything in the coming months.

the boys have been assigned their classrooms and teachers. Magnus has Ms. Volton for 1st grade and Erik has Ms. Hill for 2nd grade. looks like both teachers will assign a lot of reading.

Maggie Mae

we have achieved 'muddy waters' for stool, mostly due to the antibiotics creating such an inhospitable environment for the flora and fauna in his bowels. but at least we are not having so much trauma in the lavatory this week.

he is happier and much more pleasant disposition.

We went to the school and the roll is posted, he has found out whom his new teacher is and where her room is located. that will make the first day on Monday much easier with less unknowns.

his backpack is packed with his shiny new school supplies and he is ready (at least physically if not mentally) to go to school. Since change is never positive in his book, he is reluctant to go, but he knows that his teacher is Megan's mom, whom he was friends with last year in school, so if not familiar, at least a known person with a great recommendation. after all, Megan is super kewl, so her mom must be pretty kewl.

Gastroenterologist

Maggie:
Lower GI results: they saw issues and there was a ding-ding bell go off. Now we are going in on Wednesday to see the Gastroenterologist who originally couldn't get us in until January 2, 2008, but after a call from our pediatrician, will see us in 7 days.

as for Maggie Mae, he has gone back on the Kristalose and had explosive diarrhea but the Pediatrician would rather have that than constipation. he is still playing with Erik and friends, but does not venture far from the toilet.

today he had a 'miss' and had to take a shower and change his shorts, but we made a little deal about it as possible to just get through this as painlessly as possible. Squirts is better than constipation.

Momma:
today was NOT a good day and YESTERDAY was terrible.

Breakfast and Lunch were on target, protein bar and chicken tenders but dinner was a grand departure from normal, dinner was our 10 anniversary dinner

a slice of French bread, a ginormous onion ring, a bowl of crawfish etoufee, and then four bites of creme brulee, THAT made me burpy sick and I really wanted to puke, but I kept it down, burped all the gases out and made it through. I think it ws the fried onion ring that was my downfall.

today was less of the same.

breakfast was a protein bar and lunch was a small portion of pasta and a really small portion of eggplant parmesan. dinner is looming on my horizon, I doubt that I will make anything wild. I really do not think that there is anything even in the fridge. ;)

Back to Kat-kins

I do think that you have to find your 'happy' or 'sweet' spot and eat to maintain that. I found my happy spot at a size 4 in misses, size 7 in juniors. I got down to a size 2 and 5 but I was not 'happy' there and so I ate like crazy, breaking all the rules, wondering the whole time if I would go back to the way it was.

this week I find that I am pretty much 'on target' for the kind of foods to eat.

B: 1 protein bar, 180 calories, 19 gr protein
24 oz coffee

L: 8 oz wendys chili
24 oz ice tea

D: romaine salad with 3 oz chicken, tomatoes, cheese, croutons
24 oz raspberry tea

I was really worried that I would be able to keep to the strict diet the first year and then worried that I would be able to stop and then worried that I could allow the feasting during the bounce and now I am confident that I am over the hump and seriously able to eat within reason and maintain my current success beyond my next surgiversary.

I check the scale every other day now instead of 10 times a day. I keep my stretchy pants to a minimum, hauling them out for periods only, and keeping the unforgiving pants on daily as part of my routine. even my clothing buddy, my daughter refuses to let me get stretchy stuff, saying that I am never allowed to go back them, having learned my lesson and now have a safe guard in place.

TMI- Too Much Information

we have had an issue in the house for about 8 months, but it is something that no one wants to talk about. It is getting much worse, so now I feel that we need to talk about it.

Magnus, the sweetheart of the family, has to go in for a lower bowel xray today. yesterday he met with his pediatrician yet again for the same issue.

he has extremely large bowel movements and when he does it creates fissures at the opening of the anus. the blood loss is alarming and very upsetting. this has been going on for months. we have tried change of diet, eliminating dairy, increasing fiber, increasing fluids. all to no avail. we have tried medicine to loosing the stools but nothing helps.

Sunday night, he was dancing the two step that signals to me that he has held it as long as he can and now he HAS to go, so I rounded up his stuffed puppy that helps him go, and we proceeded to the toilet. he was resistant, but he knew that it was something that has to be done.

he pushed, he strained, he pushed so hard that he burped with each push. he cried, the tears streamed down his face onto his puppy and he got it out, bit by bit. we talked about how much it hurt, but that he had to go. we talked about how he would like to reduce how much he eats (he already has done that too) even further so that he has to go less often, and how unhealthy that would be. we talked about how confusing it was to have this happen when he was already drinking more and eating the right stuff to help his bottom. he is extremely smart and understand the correlation between input and output. and he is only 6!

after he was done, we got out the baby wipes to clean him up and there was so much blood in the toilet bowel that you could not see the waste (BM). there was so much blood the wipe that I nearly got sick. but the worst part was that there were dark black mucusy blood clots on the wipe and still hanging out the anus. Everything points to colon polyps. His dad saw tarry, dark stools earlier in the week, which may be a sign of bleeding higher in the gastrointestinal tract, such as from an ulcer.

THAT terrified me.

I got him cleaned up, and washed up and sent to bed. I got back on the internet to google and double check my worst fears. he has fussed and fretted for months now that he really does not want to go back to school, and I am sure the stress is not helping his digestive system. We do not know if it is hemorrhoids, ulcers, polyps, tumors or what, but I am determined to find out NOW.

yesterday his Pediatrician ran a rapid strep test on his bottom to see if he has GROUP STREP A. now my husband had a deep gasp of air, because she also used the word that puts terror in our home. Strep / Staph.

Jasmine and Krystal have had ANTIBACTERIAL RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS S aureus and it is not a pretty sight when they have an active lesion. We work diligently to keep it under control, and reduce the trauma when they have one that abscesses. It is just not something that ANYONE wants to go through. so far we have limited it to just the twins, and no one else has gotten it, YET. we keep the environment clean during an outbreak with sialic acid (active ingredient in Noxema) to keep surfaces clean.

today it is a off to CyFair Hospital for a lower GI series: an x ray that requires insertion of barium into the large intestine to make it show up better. Also called a barium enema x ray. to look for abnormalities.

Garnes / Indre Arna, Norway

US DEPARTMENT of STATE
Finally issued my passport. one hurdle down, about a million to go.

I am slowly acclimating myself to the plan. there are still some aspects that I continue to balk at. the incrediably small small spaces in proportion to the incredibly high prices. but as long as I do not think about the prices (1200 sqft = $400,000) I will be okay. ;) right?

just news

hmm my news...

spent 6 weeks in Washington/ Montana visiting with the family. Naomi is doing well. goes back to school shortly. Jasmine is doing well. working full time at Direct TV in Customer Support. My Parents are well, getting ready to go to Glacier National Park.

Here in Houston, my daughter Krystal is doing well, as is her baby Jordan, he turned 6 months last week, I am in charge of taking him in for his well visit and shots, while his mom is in a WIC appt that doubled up but could not be rescheduled. Erik is doing well, very eager and anxious to start school the 27th, just one week to go. got him a new back pack and shoes two weeks ago and a new lunch box today. he is very excited. Magnus on the other hand got a new back pack and new lunch box and wants me to return both so that he does not have to go to school. he has some major issues about the subject. he has a doctors appointment tomorrow, I think we will end up at the Gastroenterologist before the week is out. he has some serious issues with bloody stools for a couple of months now and we are getting no where with the current treatment.

as for me, I am slowly gearing up for the fall family portrait season. should be a record breaker for me. I have cleared off my desk, and am ready for the party to get started. ;)

did I mention that my husband had finally decided that we must move to norway. there is just no stopping him, we are tentatively scheduled to move 06/07/08 to a small town called Garnes, Norway. that will take about every minute of the next 9 months to get ready for. Some local kids made a video. Hmm, rethinking this whole decision. ;)