Hello,
Wow, I haven't written in a long, long time!!! ~ 2 months to be more exact... I have been thinking about it often but I have been a bit busy and tired (but we'll came back to that!).
I have thought about how/what I would write in this "comeback" post and I've decided that it will be just about the most important things that happen and/or that I am grateful, during this silent period otherwise it will be huge!
Since the last post and until the end of 2015 I worked on this work-related project that I mentioned in the Mindful project day # 80 and for which I still don't know the outcome!! Meanwhile, I have applied for other job openings but haven't gotten any positive answers back which is very frustrating and takes my spirits down quite often as you can imagine.
On the 5th of December we celebrated Sinterklaas with my Dutch family with the whole family including my husbands opa (grandpa in Dutch) who I love. I have never met any of my grandfathers and I think opa embodies my view of a grandpa, he's adorable!! In our family, we gather around the sitting room after dinner and go about distributing gifts. You will never know who bought it and it usually comes with a poem that mocks all the silly things you did during the year..it can be very funny or not depending how you take it!!
Also in the beginning of December we found out WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!!
We are, obviously, very happy about it specially as we have been trying almost a year. A great help was reading and applying the knowledge from this book (I learned a lot and charting really helped):
I've heard about it in a vlog post from "Pretty Neat Living" and I highly recommend it!!
I am very grateful for these news as I was afraid that my age together with family infertility cases would mean that we would have a harder time.
Our Christmas was very quiet as it was just the 4 of us (me, hubby, peanut and our cat) but I liked it very much. We saw same episodes of one of my favourite TV-series "Castle"!!!!
Nathan Fillion is definitely ruggedly handsome!!!!
I think this series is amazing, its about crime-solving which I love but its really funny and at times, romantic. Nothing like Criminal Minds or CSI which I find very disturbing.
Here are a few of our Christmas decorations:
I used the Christmas stock I knitted!!
That gnome-like creature is our Swedish Tomte!!
I made this in the garden I volunteer at and I love it!
Our unusual Christmas tree!!
Our Christmas-stall, a gift from my parents-in-law, both the stall and the figurines are handmade, amazing!!
We spent the 26th of December with my Dutch family and it was amazing. We had a dinner where each person brought something. We made Ale-pie, a British recipe that we picked up when we lived there, delicious.
The New Year's eve was at our friends M&A together with another couple S&G. It was really nice, great food, good boardgaming and an amazing firework at midnight. One thing about Dutch they love firework, so during the Christmas and New Year's time you hear it a lot even thought its only allowed on New Year's eve after 18h....it can get really scary when you are cycling and there is firework exploding from all sides of the street!!!!!
I am very grateful for being able to have a good Christmas and New Year's time, in such good company.
This past January has passed so fast that I didn't even notice that we were already in February.... we had our 12 week scan:
It looks like he is waving!!!!
Did same test and everything seems OK. I feel very blessed and I am grateful for this.
The first trimester I was hungry very often and feeling nausea (normal) and very tired but these symptoms have subdue a bit.
Our little Flor has grown a lot, she was sterilized in the middle of January and thankfully everything went fine.
Loves to take a nap in mommy's lap!!
Pulls out these incredible positions when sleeping!!
Look at this cutie!
This is it for updates, more soon.
Have a lovely day!!
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