Discovering the magic of Europe.
Is having high expectations a bad thing? Should we only have high expectations about some things in our life and not others? I have been thinking a lot about this lately. Making this move to Europe, traveling, and life events that have happened recently have made me take a step back and pay attention to…
AS I think back in 2018, as we all do at the end of the year, I am flooded with emotions. There is so much that happened, it was definitely one of the biggest and most significant years of my life so far. I have learned so very much about family, friends, loss, love and…
Life is full of ups and downs. It can be something you planned, something that wasn't necessarily planned but expected, or can also be completely unexpected. When life goes down it can be hard to experience the laughter or even feel the Love. 2010 We recently got to go back to the states for about…
When we decided to move to the Netherlands, we had a list of places we wanted to visit. Zakopane, Poland was not on that list. We had never even heard of it before. I was doing some research for our November trip, when I saw a photo from a Facebook group I am in called…
A lot has happened since my last blog post. Things are going really great! We are making friends, getting comfortable in our new home, and traveling more than ever. That does not mean it's been smooth sailing, but life is pretty boring without a few bumps in the road, am I right? I mean can…
Our plan when we decided to move to The Netherlands was to do a big trip once a month. In August the big trip was moving here, So we spent the month doing some weekend trips and getting settled. The first big trip we actually sat down to plan was Z's birthday trip to Disneyland…
How long does it take to get settled when you move somewhere new? I think it's different for everyone and every place. Personally, I usually have everything out of boxes and in their place within the first two days. I am crazy that way. I get very anxious if things are in a cluttered mess…
Breathing. It is something we do everyday, yet somehow in the everyday we forget to do it, at least I do. It's amazing how just pausing to inhale air through our nose, filling our diaphragm, then pushing it out through our mouth can relax us. We have been in Utrecht for a little over a…
What started as an idea, a dream, something that we thought would happen after Z graduated high school, has happened. We have moved to Holland! When we came for a visit last year, thanks to My husband's job at Automattic, or as most people know them, WordPress, we absolutely fell in love. The country, the…
Thanks for joining me! Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover - Mark Twain
