Where Do I Begin

So I dropped off the face of the planet again…but I haven´t been lying still….we had a wonderful trip to Paris the end of January/beginning of February. We had all the kids and Sarah´s live in boyfriend, Pål with us. After the first day of walking ALL over Paris, up 400+ stairs at the Notre Dame, Julia´s back began acting up again and we were terribly afraid we had put her back where she had been before she had surgery last summer. We learned quickly that a short city trip like that was not anything she should do again. If we had a couple weeks or so in Paris, where we didn´t have to rush around she would have been fine, but when you have three days and want to see everything you can, you do more then the average person and she felt that. Never the less we enjoyed ourselves immensely and all of the kids were inspired to return again someday as were we, however, I refuse to return to Paris again in the winter. This was our second trip to Paris in the winter and next time I want to experience spring or summer there. 

In February I cut back on my work week by one day, so now I´m working two days a week so I can have more time for these….

and these…

and her….

And yes, I know I´m extremely lucky to have a Sugar Daddy who makes this possible….but with that said, I am working as hard as he is, I am just not getting paid in money for this job at home….can anyone relate?

Me and my Sugar Daddy in Paris

With my added "free" time I´m trying to get back into my photo hobby….and this lovely lady and her son have been helping me…

I´ve also started a food blog in Norwegian and English which I´ve thought a LONG time about but I had this blog and I was adding recipes here and I figured I can barely keep up with this blog so why start another? Well, the other blog is JUST for recipes and food. Something that I´m consumed with daily and actually can update often because….hey…things happen in my kitchen ;-) Where as in the rest of my life there isn´t always so many exciting happenings to write about, so I don´t….and then I have spurts like this where you get the last month and a half in one post- lucky you right? ;-) I figured also that my food blog would be an easy way to share recipes with my friends and family who ask me for recipes. Instead of sending them individual recipes I´ll just post in my blog. That way it will be a little easier to find recipes for myself also. If you saw how my recipes were stored you´d get a headache….I have recipes everywhere, on notecards, in writing tablets, in cookbooks, on Pinterest, all over the net, saved on various websites…EVERYWHERE….and even here on my blog the recipes are scattered in between the silly ramblings of yours truly. So now everything will be collected in a neater forum hopefully. You can check it out if you´d like and pass it along if you really like it :-) I´d be grateful. 

Amy´s Cafe

I called my food blog Amy´s Cafe because I´ve always dreamed of opening a little cafe or a little food store with gourmet foods, something with food…hahahaha…but you who have been following my blog long enough know that I have a BIG dog hobby right now and even when the numbers aren´t this big in the future, I will always have dogs in my life and can´t be away from them as much as I would have to be if I was going to open my own place. So this blog will be my little "cafe". Hope you´ll like it :-)

Heading to a dog show this weekend with Cookie and Harley. Really not looking forward to the dog show part of the weekend but spending time with good friends will be fun, meeting new people will be fun, and I will be meeting a very special girl this weekend who I will tell you more about in awhile…for now she remains my sweet secret.

Thanks to those of you are still hanging in there with me, welcome to those of you who are new. It´s not the most exciting blog in cyberspace but it´s cozy, kinda like old sheepskin slippers and fleece pj´s and who doesn´t like that????

Until next time my friends….