I'm enjoying the silence...

Do any of you have an idea of how much a 7-year old boy talks?

Ohh my God... we have been babysitting my husbands Godson since 1.00 pm, and I don't think he has been silent for 5 minutes at a time. He is so sweet, but boy does he talk a lot:o) And he asks many questions. I have just tugged him in (with his gameboy, I know not the real parenty thing to do, but I'm not a parent until February). So now I'm enjoying a few hours of silence before heading to bed myself. We have spent the day playing Dragon Balls and what else on the PlayStation, he has been playing on the computer (not even that is done in silence) and he has played with his Star wars Lego, and though I never seen a Star wars movie I think I now knows who is bad and who is good (the guy with the green head and big ears are good).

But having him over also mean we have to monitor whats on TV, so we have more or less only been reading the news online, because yesterday there was a bombing in Copenhagen. Well the bombing supposedly didn't go as expected because only the bomber was hurt. He tried to bomb a hotel in the center of the city, but he failed. He tried to run, but later got caught. He had lost one leg, so it kind of impressive how far he had got before getting caught.

The man denies to cooperate with the police, but he speak French, and they expect him to be from the Northern part of Africa. He don't know what his name is or where he is from... or well he isn't telling. The police does not yet know if it was a act of terrorism, but the fear it might be, with today being September 11Th. So until further notice they are on highest alert at airports etc.

It's a bit scary, so far most terrorist attacks have been in other countries and so far away that we haven't really been exposed, but now it's getting close... too close. Luckily this guy failed, but who knows what will happen next time?

I hope everybody is all right, and I will continue to enjoy a bit of silence.

Fridays Fives

Beth over at Just Me and My Life... has a post called Friday Fives every Friday, and this is my first time playing along, for some reason the theme this week was something I couldn't miss.

5 things I remember about September 11Th... can you believe it's been nine years all ready?

1. I remember driving to the post office and they said on the radio that a plane had crashed into the Twin Towers. Since it wasn't at the regular time for the news I thought it was a joke, and didn't think more about it.

2. I remember getting home turning on the TV to watch another re-run of 90210, but the news was still on. I was annoyed, checked the time and then I realised that what I earlier had heard on the Radio wasn't a joke.

3. I remember calling my boyfriend who hadn't heard anything about it yet. One of his friends was in New York on vacation at the time. He is a person that would get up early to go see places, and we worried he was in the Twin Towers... later we found out he was safe, but had been in the Twin Towers just the morning before.

4. I remember nothing else was on the news. No one talked about anything else. I wasn't in my country, not even my continent, but I remember everyone talking about wanting Bin Laden being caught.

5. I remember my parents being on vacation in Turkey, and having to pick them up in the airport a few days later. All ready by then the security in the airports had been increased. I remember being worried for my parents, though they were no where near New York.

I hope some of you will take the time to remember, this did not only change New York, or the USA it changed the world... So take the time to remember either online, or just in your mind. If you choose to remember online link up to Beth's blog!

My weekend started yesterday!

Can you believe my weekend started on a Thursday afternoon? Well as I have said before I have the best boss ever... A few weeks back he asked if I could take an extra closing shift this Monday, due to people being on vacation etc. I knew he had taken an extra the week before, and was thinking I didn't really want to, but we need to help each other out so I said yes, to which he replied "you can take Friday off then!" So for sure I can take an extra closing shift, though it meant 14 hours work Monday and Wednesday and 8-9 hours Tuesday and Thursday... But it paid off:)

Tomorrow we are babysitting my husbands Godson, and he is spending the night. He asked if he could bring his playstation games (which of course he can), and we are just going to really enjoy ourselves. I believe I'm allowed to spoil him rotten as long as it not my own child, and besides it's only the second time he is spending the night, so it's not something that happens all the time.

But I do have lot to do on my day off, I need to:

• Fold the laundry and do the last few loads
• Watch the episode of "Desperate Housewives" that I recorded on Wednesday
• Drink my cold chocolate milk in the fridge (I think that is one of my cravings during my pregnancy)
• Go shoe shopping, I need a new pair of black shoes for next Saturday
• Do a little grocery shopping, you need a lot of junk food for babysitting a 7-year old:)
• Tidy up a little, then again my husband is home early on Fridays so I guess that will be his job:)
• Catch up on all the blogs (I haven't had time to read many this week)
• Go to some friends house for dinner

Uhh I got a busy day:) Enjoy your weekend!

Another universe...

Yesterday we went down to my parents place and celebrated my mum's belated birthday, which was just really relaxing and nice.

Today we went to another universe... well we went to Danfoss Universe which is a theme park based on teaching kids about science and technology. My husband and I have been there once before, back when they opened in 2005. Back then we weren't too impressed, and I remember we thought I was more of a kids park. Well my parents have season passes (because the live only 10 minutes away, and every once in a while they can go to a free concert there), and on Sundays they can each bring in a guest for free.

So we decided yesterday that we wanted to go today, because there have been a lot done to the theme park over the last 5 years. I had seen in some commercials that you could ride a segway, and well I wanted to try that. My mum said there was always a long line at the segways, but if we got there by the time they opened it wouldn't be too bad. So we went there at 10 a.m. And we were first in line for the segway...

It was really fun, and the hardest thing was actually to keep it completely still. I want a segway now, wouldn't it be cool riding that for work? Well it is probably not going to happen, unless I win the lottery or the prices will really go down:)

We also tried a few other activities, and had quite a lot of fun. We were making waves, on a thing called the human wave... well I was the worst of the 4 of us, and my mum kicked our asses really bad, but hey she got season pass so she has probably been training:)

We also tried the tread mill, so I won't need to go to the gym today, I was competing against my dad and lost again... and my husband and my mum were competing against each other.

We tried a lot of other activities as well, and we walked around the park, which is really nice, with different cool buildings and beautiful flowers all around.

We were there for a few hours, which was fine since we had gotten in for free. If you have to pay full price you should spent the whole day there. In the parking lot they had another attraction where you could lift a car, and here is a picture of my very strong husband lifting a car:)

Unlike last time we were a bit more impressed by the park, but it will probably be another 4 or 5 years before we go again. But we do believe it will be fun to bring a kid there, especially when he or she will reach the age where they will start understand what is going on with the technology.

So all in all we had a nice, relaxing and fun weekend...

It's weekend, and I caved in!

Finally the weekend has arrived, I'm unbelievable tired, so it's very much needed. This morning I even caved in, and are now wearing maternity pants... I hate to admit it, but my old jeans weren't feeling too comfortable any longer, especially as the day turned into evening. The thing is I don't feel I look pregnant yet, just like I ate too much over the summer:) But I must admit I love wearing them, the are just really comfortable, so who cares, and why had no one told me they were so comfortable?

Tonight I believe I will spent on the couch in front of the TV, doing absolutely nothing! Tomorrow we will be heading down to my parents to celebrate my mums belated birthday. I can't wait, a weekend of doing nothing! Just sit and be served, is there anything better? We asked if it was okay to stay till Sunday, to which I of course knew the answer, but you got to ask, right? My mum said she thought we would, so we are staying.

This week at work have been super bad, and I don't hope it will continue at this speed! If it does, well then I'm not gonna last over Christmas... I'll be on sick leave, but hey December won't be the worst month to spent at home... so who knows, I just hope it slows down, but I'm not the one to make those choices.

Hope you all will have a happy weekend!

I've got a lot of shopping to do:)

Oh boy you need a lot of things when expecting a baby! And boy do I love looking around deciding what to get and what not to get:)

On Sunday I was working, and a girl from another department came out with a lot of car seats, which had been on display, and sometimes we can buy them cheaper. So I asked if I should buy one of those. Though she said those weren't in too good shape, but if I just waited a minute she had one tugged away, which was meant for her cousin to buy cheap a few months ago. But he had never picked it up, so I could buy that one. So now I got a car seat for only 25% of the price I can find for online... how cool is that?

Well this is not the first car seat I need, the baby wont fit into this before its about a year old, but I don't mind storing it at that price. Ohh and don't mind the frosties in the background, it's not an attempt of product placement:)

Now I'm on the outlook for another car seat, which can be used from birth, but a co worker of mine talked about selling hers. Neither me nor my baby will be too good for hand me downs. Besides she said she had hardly used it, so I will have a look, and probably buy it. At the same time she said she had a lot of maternity clothes, she had just been cleaning out her closet, and I could take a look if I could use any of it. So yesterday she brought me this big box of maternity clothes...

So it's just sitting there waiting for me to go through it. Isn't that just great, a whole box of free clothes? Especially since I'm only going to wear it for 4 or 5 months, I would really hate myself for having to spent a load of money on clothes I'm not going to be able to wear anymore in the spring.

Just when we had found out I was pregnant a friend of ours wrote on her facebook status that she was selling their Trip Trap High chair. I was a bit confused as what to do, because a new one will cost a smaller fortune, but at the same time we weren't ready to tell them I was pregnant.

Well after our vacation we invited them for my belated birthday dinner. After a few minutes I asked if they had sold their high chair, to which she replied no, and I asked if they wanted to sell it, and she got the point right away and congratulated us. Then she said if she had only known, because then she wouldn't have bought me a birthday present, I would have got the chair instead. But then she realised that my husband has a birthday before me giving birth and said it would be his birthday present.

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So we also got a high chair, well not yet but we will have it before the baby is here, and its free. The cool thing about this chair is that it can be used for bigger children as well, as the baby gets bigger you can remove the bar and adjust the seat level. Our friends son had used it until he turned 6 years, so it won't be completely new, and our will be a wooden colour, so even if it has a few "bruises" it won't be that noticeable as a painted one would be.

So I'm looking for bargains all the time, and the good thing is that I don't need everything right now, so I have plenty of time to look around, but that also means that I will find a lot of stuff that I might not really need, but that I do want:)

The joys of pregnancy...

Okay I should definitely not complain, I'm fortunately not one of those women who has to run to the bathroom every 10 minutes. I have only experienced a few differences since getting pregnant, one is that I'm more tired than usual, and I guess soon I will have to give in and start taking an afternoon nap... the thing is I have never been a heavy sleeper, and I'm afraid if I sleep during the day, I won't be able to sleep during the night. As I said I don't get nausea, only if I don't get my meals fairly regularly, which meant on vacation I couldn't wait till 15.00 before having lunch:) But I did lie about not running to the bathroom every ten minutes, well not every ten minutes, but I do have to pee a lot, like 3 times last night... The third thing is I have started to get teenage skin again, NOT so much fun.

But let's face it, if these are the only things that are going to change, when I will be fine. Okay I might soon have to go shopping though, but honestly isn't it a little early buying pregnancy clothes? I don't look pregnant yet, just a little chubby, I can no longer suck in my stomach to look thin! But a plus is that my breast have gotten bigger... I know they won't stay that way, but I will enjoy them as long as I got them, even if it means that I also have to invest in a few new bras.

I know I have always said I don't want children, but I honestly didn't think people would believe me, besides that was our standard answer, because we were tired of getting asked when we would reproduce... But I guess some people did believe it, because when we told my parents my mums first reaction was to say "but you guys didn't want children" so we had to calm her down, and tell this was a happy thing and all planned. My father reacted as we expected... he started to cry:)

My husbands Godson who is 7 was also really excited about it, and he is hoping it's a boy. He also gave us a bit of advice "Connie, when the baby comes you have to remember that you and Frank are in charge!" How cute was that? Though Frank had to ask him who was in charge of him, and when he answered his parents, he asked if he always did was his parents asked him to... to which he didn't really answer:) Later he asked his mum what he would be to the baby, when it was his Godfathers child, and his mum told him that it was "just" his Godfathers child. But hey if it will make his day I would love to call him a cousin. Let's face it our baby don't seem to get any cousins anytime soon with my brother and fiance breaking up, and both Franks sister and brother being single...

I don't hope I bored you, but these are the things that takes a lot of my time at the moment, but can you blame me?