A good weekend, a cold, and dark days

I had it all planned out in my head. Leave on Wednesday, arrive on Thursday, shop and rest on Friday, birthday on Saturday, another birthday on Sunday, rest on Monday, but take some time on Monday to write a little blogpost about how great our weekend had been.

Well, it was. I loved seeing our family. My brother and his wife were at the Saturday birthday, so that was an added bonus. And of course seeing and interacting with our grandson on both days was so great. Sunday was his birthday. He didn’t really understand that he had a lot of gifts to unwrap, especially since the first package had a fire truck and he was very excited about that. But he was very happy that we had french fries for diner and quietly kept eating until he was stuffed.

A very good weekend indeed. But my throat started to feel a bit raspy on Saturday and it got worse on Sunday. On Monday I woke up with very sore throat, and everything else that goes with a severe cold. Slight fever, coughing, sneezing, the lot. I’m trying to be back on my feet by Christmas, but right now, I’m mostly on the couch, resting. I tried to do a little bit of grocery shopping yesterday morning (we were out of everything), but I was almost crying from exhaustion when I got home.

Anyway. The perfect time to try and move my blog back to wordpress, no? Ahem… I hope everything is back to normal now.

Oh, and that picture? That’s how things look around here in the middle of the day. Yes, dark and cloudy. Very cloudy. They say we’re in the longest stretch of sunless (as in extremely cloudy – the sun does rise around here) days since 1993 and it’s not over yet.

We’re only here for 18 days, but we do get the full Dutch winter experience 😉