We had one of those weekends that makes my husband say: “This is the reason we moved here!” Friday: Happy Hour with friends at our favorite beach bar. Also Friday: a beautiful full moon. Saturday: 4th of July bbq on the beach with American friends. Sunday: different beach bar, different friends, very good music. And…
Category: life lately
Focusing on the good stuff
To ease myself back into blogging, I’m going to post daily(-ish) pictures of things that make me happy this month. I hope that will help me to find my voice back.Each time I start writing a blog post it’s full of negativity, sadness, depression, and anxiety. I don’t want that. It’s what I’m feeling and…
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My beautiful, loving, giving, caring, quirky, fierce mother died this morning after suffering from pancreatic cancer for over a year.The last phase was short and mostly painless and we’re grateful for that. She was ready to go and I’m happy that she was able to stay home, with my father, until the end.
My week – habit style
5.18.20Had a productive morning, called my parents after lunch. It went downhill from there. I have a hard time accepting things the way they are. 5.19.20Wrote 5,000 words again. Thought about photography. Despite everything that’s going on my creative side seems to be waking up. 5.20.20Driving to town, thinking out loud, I felt I could…
A simple shawl
This is not my best knitting year. Every time I finish something I feel like “Wow, I actually finished something!” Oh well.So here are some pictures of the simplest shawl I ever made. But that’s okay. I may actually wear this one. Or not. I’m starting to believe that no matter how much I love…
My week – habit style
When Elizabeth mentioned Habit was back, I was really excited. I used to love the pictures and words they posted back in the days and I always wished I could do something like that too, but I never really felt like I got it. But times have changed and I’m in a blogging rut anyway….
This weekend
This weekend I… :: realized that our we-were-supposed-to-be-in-the-Netherlands period ended this Friday. I can’t explain it, but I feel a lot better now. Like a fog has lifted. Easier to accept that we couldn’t be there, now that we would have been back here again, I guess. :: went on a little road trip with…
I wanna go home
T. woke up singing “I wanna go home” (from Sloop John B. by the Beach Boys). I didn’t really know that song, but goodness, that jukebox in his mind is always spot on… Today we were supposed to fly to The Netherlands to see our kids and our family. Our flight has been canceled for…
Random three
1. I am so tired! I try to work in the garden at least an hour a day, but my body isn’t as strong as it used to be. Or this is harder work than I’ve ever done, that could also be the case. I’m still in the phase of cleaning the grounds. Need to…
DITL :: look what he built!
Last Friday I didn’t know yet that I’d decide to keep doing the day in the life blogs, but to do combine Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a Monday post and do Monday through Thursday on Friday (um, does that make sense to you? – doesn’t matter, it does to me). So I didn’t really…