Category: life lately

We had an uneventful, but wonderful weekend. Friday’s sunset. I’m still not tired of these. On Saturday we spent the morning working in the garden. T. mowed the grass. Well, actually he mowed the weeds and the (wild) grass is slowly starting to fill in, but it looks good and it’s a lot easier to…

One of the agaves in our garden is blooming. You can’t really see it in the pictures, but it’s about 10 feet high. Which is actually not high compared to some other agaves I’ve seen. It’s fascinating to watch this grow, even though it’s also bittersweet, since it means the mother plant is dying. Each…

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to post something here again, but it felt like unfinished business not to post a Christmas wish.  The last few months have been a blur and the last few weeks even more. We’re in The Netherlands right now, but it’s been a roller coaster. We picked a hell of…

If I imagine how a perfect life would look for me…  Okay, let’s just ignore that this would include being able to visit my family and not feeling so scared all the time. Just focus on the things that I can change.  If I imagine how a perfect life would look for me, I’d be…

So, I made some cookies. And the great thing about these is that I can eat them too (I can’t eat sugar and I’d better stay away from gluten as much as possible). The original recipe (you can find that here) is just two ingredients, glutenfree oats and banana. I was feeling adventurous, so I…

  So what’s new? Well, nothing much, actually. That’s one of the reasons I haven’t been blogging. Not much happened.  I’ve been rather succesful at keeping T. and myself reasonably healthy, though we’ve been extremely tired for weeks (months? I don’t know). Covid is spreading here, but we keep our distance. No happy hours, no…

  I’ve been thinking about blogging almost every day. But I’m overthinking what pictures to post and what to say. Like, really, really overthinking it, so much that I don’t post. So today I thought I’d just throw in a rainbow, a sunset and a sunrise and see where that takes me 😉 I’ve been…

As most of you know, my word for the year 2020 is “accept”. So, how’s that going?Well, so far I’ve learned three things. 1. Accepting things you know will happen (like my mom’s death) may seem “easy” in advance (not really easy, but doable, because you already know it’s coming), but it’s still awful and…

It’s not the most practical gift and not very affordable either (since we’re on a tropical island), but when my husband added these flowers to the shopping cart yesterday because he wanted me to have them, I didn’t object. I’m going to enjoy them as long (or short) as they last.