5th December 2009
Hello everyone! After a long hiatus we have finally added some news to our blog. Most of you probably know this already, but Carl recently accepted a job at
TANDBERG in Norway. Although it's challenging any time you try to relocate a family of six, let alone to a place as far away as Norway, we are very excited about this new adventure and convinced that it will be a valuable learning experience for all of us.
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During the past couple of months we have been packing as much as possible and trying to prepare for the move. We've been selling some things we can't take with us, like the cars (they were old anyway) and some of the furniture. Carl's brother, Ben, is buying a new home, so the timing was good to offload some of our stuff onto him. We also sold some of it on
ksl.com and
craigslist.
Another big part of getting ready was trying to slim down the amount of stuff we wanted to bring with us. We have ordered one of the new
Nook eReaders from
Barnes and Noble, and are digitizing many of our books, albums and movies so that we can bring them all over on a hard drive instead of in a bunch of heavy boxes. Carl made a Youtube video about this process:
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