The whole daylight saving thing took us a little by surprise this weekend. Suddenly we have an hour more to our day which feels strange for me because I still catch myself working out the 'real' time. But we are losing daylight fast here, so we'll take every extra hour we can get. Sunrise is close to 8am and sunset around 4:30pm. The kids and I are spend as much time outside as possible.
Today our walk took us out via forests and beautiful farm lands in search of treasure! Our loot: rocks,leaves, bark, moss and a beetle!The kids ran ahead to roll down some hills and when I caught up Joshua said, "Mom, the field looked really nice from far away but once we got here it wasn't nice at all." The grass was definately greener but what we couldn't see were all the stones and rocks.
It is not a new analogy, but being in a different country and reading some of the rather sad posts people put on Facebook about South Africa, Josh's comment got me thinking. It is so easy to complain about everything that is wrong in a country when you are living there, and even more so when you have left. Every country, no matter how green the grass seems, has its stones. Norway is an amazing country, but South Africa is home.