First post!

Well, I'm up. This is my first post here, and I'm sure one of my kids will wake up any minute to join me (and distract me from my "work").

I am 36 years old. I have stopped dyeing my hair - and it is currently growing grey at an alarming rate!

Yup there comes A, my three-year-old, one of my greatest loves and one of the reasons my hair is turning grey. He must have sensed that I'd made coffee and was getting ready to busy myself with something...he has a freakishly accurate radar when it comes to things like that. I have now parked him on the sofa and popped in a DVD - we've been sick here lately, that is, we're on the mend now, but are still being very couch potato-y. The rainy dreary weather outside doesn't help...

But anyway back to me...I want to get me out of the way, because me is not what I want to write about here!

I am married to T, he's a year and a half younger than I am. We met in 2001, married in 2004, had A (our boy) in 2006, and G (our girl) in 2009. We are based in Bergen, Norway; but since May 2007 we have lived in Okpo. This is a small city on the island Geoje, on the southern tip of South Korea.

I grew up in California and Connecticut - and moved to Norway (kicking and screaming) in 1989 at the age of 15. I liked it fine, although I didn't tell my parents that of course... After a few years of college (Aquaculture) in a small town in Norway I moved to Sydney, Australia in 1998 to get my Master's Degree (Science), and while I was there I realized I was NOT homesick for the US anymore, I was homesick for Bergen! Huh. Who'd've thunk it.

So back to Bergen I went with my fancy education, and until we moved to Korea that's where I've stayed. I work at the hospital in Bergen, in the Pathology department, at the Histology Lab. People tend to think it sounds positively grisly. I don't think so...but I have no idea who's right, me or them! It's very interesting work and I can't wait to go back this November. What with a couple of births and our stay in Korea I haven't worked there since December 2005 - but I hope things haven't changed TOO much.

I guess that pretty much covers me...

If you want to read more about me and my family check out the page titled "Our Pack". It'll be confusing and disorganized though...you've been warned!