Working nine to five.....

Preparing for our May 17th celebration means a lot of work for mom, especially when we have local community responsibilities as well. Some of you may remember how much I really do NOT like ironing. Well, no way getting away from that while preparing our national folk costumes.

This is a detail picture from Natalies costume this year.

The silver jewelry is a special gift from great-grandma Weight who bought it on one of her visits to Norway. My mother brought it for Natalie this Easter so it was the first time she wore it. The silver needed cleaning and after using a tooth brush and a lot of patience it was really sparkly and shiny!

Some other mommy-tasks before the BIG day was baking cinnamon rolls. I also went to the children's school to get everything ready for our celebration.

It was a good thing we had our flags ready because Saturday night was party time! Norway won this year's Eurovision Song Contest! Yeah!

Fairytale