Today was the most relaxed day ever. And I have no idea why. I started with my usual ‘run run’ morning even more so because I woke up later than I usually do around 6.30 am. But I felt like I had the energy for it. I felt like I had the energy for whatever. I went for our usual …
Christmas Fair And A Lazy Sunday
No blogpost yesterday so I’ll try to sum up our weekend in one blogpost. I’m writing this blog post while sitting in my favorite spot by the Christmas tree. It’s 5 pm right now so it’s getting dark outside and the fairy lights on our tree are casting a warm glow in the room. The most wonderful thing about this …
Sinterklaas, Candlelight and Fairy Lights
Today we had a visit from Sinterklaas. It’s a ‘Santa’-like person that brings kids presents, cookies and mandarins. Sinterklaas rides a horse so what you should do is you take a shoe and you place a carrot inside. You set your shoe out for the Sint to find and you go to sleep. The carrot is obviously for the horse. …
Sunrise and Tea
I have had one of the most incredible mornings of my life today. The prompt for my ‘cozy’ challenge said ‘look at the sunrise with a cup of tea’. I always associated sunrise with the summer. I looked up and turned out the sun would rise at 8.28 today. As it happened to be right in the middle of my …
Curtains And Wooly Socks
Today was a whirlwind of activity a lot of stuff that needed to get done before the end of the year. We needed to remodel Richard’s room a bit because he needs a desk and there wasn’t a place for it. Also, the windows needed to be cleaned in his room and he wanted to transform his bed so we …