Good times with my 3 favorite ladies!

Thank you moeke for the "talking-walking-caring" quality time!

Thank you Ella for the heartwarming-cracking up-cuddling-cosy time!

Thank you zusje for the "it's all good, have as much tea as you want" relaxed time!

  

Another sign

 Sometimes I have doubts.

Am I doing the right thing?

Leaving everything behind?

And then this happens...

Call me superstitous,

but one of my favorite flee-market finds

falling and breaking on a doubtful day?

Yes, another sign.

Preparations

Burning my last candles,

wrapping my last gifts.

Dat kleine meisje en haar mama...

Ze stelen mijn hart,

steeds weer.

Wat is dit hard

en doet dit zeer.

Kleine meisje en lieve zus,

ik zal jullie missen dus!

Lovely saturday...

• warm bed
• sleeping in
• breakfast and book
• driving through the snow
• cold air, warm clothes
• finding the prefect gifts
• warm cup of soup
• spotting awsome snowy spiderwebs
• spending time with loved ones and hot cups of tea
• taking a nap
• having delicious dinner with wonderful friends
• warm bed

I'm only happy when it... snows!

It snowed today! A lot!

The world became so much more beautiful and it got me all excited!

Not that I don't want to go jump around in it and make snowangels... But: I find myself so much more relaxed driving home on a day like this... Weird?

For me there is just less stress, less wishing that everyone would get out of the way, that they would drive faster or get off the road so I could have it all to myself.

I just enjoyed everything going slow, because there is now way going faster. And everything is so pretty!

I wanted to wave to everyone and smile and shout: "This is great, right!". I felt connected with all the people around me, like we were all sharing this amazing thing. I'm pretty sure not everyone feels this way...

I'm so grateful that I got snow and really cold temperatures before I leave...

It will be hard to imagine it being this cold in a few weeks when we are in warmer areas!

Thank you Belgian weather!

Orange was fun

One month...

Only one month until the big adventure begins!

One year...

One year leave of absence to travel!

I will miss my tiny but cozy apartment in all it's orangeness!

This retro lamp now has a giant burn mark on it from a candle and I am starting to drop and break things around the apartment on a regular basis...

This tells me my time's up!

Almost ready to go!