I've actually made it to a computer to post, I know shocking! I also changed my URL address if you hadn't noticed yet. It is now Saturday Scribbles. I'm hoping it will keep me accountable to writing on here. So every saturday I will write a new post, hopefully more in between but I definitely don't want to be one of those blogger junkies who does nothing but blog everyday. So this will give me some balance. If I find I'm not writing at all, you guys can count on one post per week on saturday. However if I find i'm throwing up multiple posts a day (eek!) then it will be time to chill out the addiction a little and LIMIT the posting to just on saturdays. I also changed the title of my blog to "kjærlighet er skjønnheten av sjelen" which translated is "love is the beauty of the soul". My mother is full norwegian which makes me half and I've always grown up with norwegian culture around me so I'm getting in deeper touch with this side of myself hence the norwegian title. Christ's two greatest commands to us is to love him with our heart, soul and mind & to love people. I've been learning over the last couple years that is the only true beauty within a person. "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Cor. 13:4-7 ESV) This is my goal in life, this is the reason for my being. Living here in Illinois is teaching me continually about loving like this, I pray that my heart, my will and my actions are continually changed day by day as I learn to love this precious family.

So here's a bit of a map to my blog. A couple of my favorite things about this blog is the Celebrations and Projects section.

"Celebrate This Month"

• Norwegian holidays that I've grown up celebrating or new ones that I've been wanting to learn about.
• Bangladesh celebrations that I've grown up with but mostly haven't invested the time to uphold the tradition.
• Birthdays, Anniversaries, National Holidays etc...
• Events I'm planning on going to and ones that I'm not but bring back memories.
• Any other reason I can think of celebrating, if you can think of anything that would be fun to celebrate it let me know! I'm always looking for new things.

“Projects”
• This section is for crafts, things around the house I need to get done, things I'm learning/want to start learning, gifts etc...

So as you can all see I am absolutely horrible at keeping this blog up, I'm really going to make a conscious effort to bring some life into it. However now that i'm living with my adorable nieces and nephew I feel like I should write down some of the adorable stuff that they are doing. It's not like I don't have enough things to write about, I just never seem to take the time. I always prefer to be out there doing new stuff rather then sitting around writing about the old stuff. So my blog has had a "face lift" with a cute layout from Aqua Poppy (thanks for the tip Mary) and my resolution has been made. Now I doubt that I'll ever be a great and frequent blogger however when I saw my sister Mary put a cute idea up on hers about creating homemade gifts for the first five people who respond I thought that it might not be half bad to try to be more consistent with blogging. I'll re-post her offer later on as soon as I can prove to myself that I can actually stick with this blogging thing. Hello I live in Watseka, IL now I should be able to find the time. That said, guess what I've moved for the summer (maybe a bit longer we'll see). I'm nannying for my sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Joe. They have three beautiful children whom you will hear a great deal about i'm sure. Lily is 4 going on 16, Jacob is 2 (and so far is escaping terrible twos), and my precious goddaughter Hannah is 8 months old. They keep me busy but it's definitely fun.