Random Thoughts

I have just one sleeve left on my cardigan before I send it in.  I’m very pleased with it, but I may have to ask Knut for another afternoon at the library while I finish up the writing of the pattern without distraction.  I need to get this thing in the mail soon!

They finished planting last night.  I’m so glad that phase is done, and it’s always interesting to see what they do each day from here on out.  Each day has a new and different job.  I’m just hoping we get to see him in the evenings a bit more again.

Things are going to get busy this weekend.  Today we have swimming lessons, and tomorrow starts a garage sale in town that I get to be apart of.  Saturday is Silje’s rehearsal for her piano recital, which is on Sunday, after a church pot luck (that has nothing to do with the recital at her aunt’s house).  I need to make something for the pot luck, and treats to bring to the recital.  I need to figure out how this whole garage sale thing is going to work, and I should probably start marking my items.  I need to make sure that if I have to be in town at the sale, that Silje has a way to her rehearsal.

No…life doesn’t slow down.  I think during a busy season like Spring planting, I just hold my breath until it’s over, and then find out that it’s still pretty busy on the other side.

Can I tell you a bit about one of our big announcements coming up that I alluded to earlier?  Knut and I have been spending some time researching where to go for our 10 year anniversary this year.  When we first got married, and the one part about our prospective farm life that worried me was that I wouldn’t see much of the world anymore.  I traveled a lot, growing up (I was the daughter of a pilot) and even more when I was a teen and went on a few international mission trips.  I made Knut promise that on our “decade anniversaries” he would take me someplace that we have never gone before.  We’d go someplace just the two of us.

Our first thought was Norway, since we wanted to go there on our honeymoon, but couldn’t afford it at that time.  The more we looked into it, we realized that it’s really tough to go anywhere in Europe for only 1 week.  I was really stuck on 1 week, because I think the little kids in the house are a bit too little to leave for more than 1 week.  I just wouldn’t be comfortable, and I doubt I’d be able to enjoy myself being separated from them that long.  So we decided to postpone Norway until the kids were a bit older.  Maybe for our 20 year.

I was thinking a cruise because neither one of us have been on one before.  We were thinking either the Caribbean or Alaska.  When we talked with our travel agent (who is another talented cousin of Knut’s) Knut through out the idea last minute to look into Hawaii as well.  It didn’t appeal to me at first, because I really wanted to do something international, and even an Alaskan cruise stops through Canada.

However, the more we looked into it, the more we got drawn in.  From the hotels, to the nature and history opportunities…I think we might be sold.  I think Hawaii it is.  I can’t believe I’m going some place as “luxurious” as that!  Since I was the one who put the “demand” on Knut all those years ago, I was trying hard to keep the trip as inexpensive as possible, which is why a cruise was my first option.  I didn’t know that Knut had some other plans, and had done some other saving to make a big deal of it this whole time.

We’re not big trip people.  A normal vacation for us is piling our kids into our minivan with 195,000 miles on it and driving to see my parents.  My kids have never been to Disney, although I’m sure someday they will.  We never stay in hotels…we always stay with friends or family, and bring food in a cooler to reduce eating out costs.  This is going to be so different. 

I’m getting so excited.  One week in a fancy place with my love in Hawaii.  The only thing left to do before we book this trip is finalize what our kids will be doing.  You know…checking the dates with the grandparents might be a polite thing to do.  😉