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Bye, bye 2024
There you go! Last day of 2024. How do I feel? I can not really tell. Looking forward to celebrating a little with our neighbors and friends. Just us, taking care of our scared dogs. And how do I feel about 2024? Mixed feelings, to be honest. It has been a rough one thinking about the health of my parents. With my family I had a wonderful year, remembering our stay in Italy during the summer. It was a wonderful time – even though a little too short. But rebuilding our house, we have to think about a budget. My writing was not good in 2024. Even though I published…
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Precious, unexpected moments
I posted my last post yesterday being in a strange mood. Maybe because I am still a little sick or whatever, I do not know. My kids came home from school and I was not expecting anyone except my husband, who has a key. So I was startled as always, the moment someone rang the bell. I tried to figure out who it might be but I do not know our peephole is not the best, all I could see looked like a woman in a funny hat like the ones you see at the Oktoberfest. Against my better judgment, I opened the door. The closer we get to Christmas, the…
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Feels like crying
There is a saying from Heraclitus „The only constant in life is change“. Well, wasn’t he damn right? The question is: Why do I start today again, after I abandoned this blog for so long? Well, today is as good as any day, I guess. And yes, I was thinking about waiting till New Years, but decided against it. Why wait? We do always wait and it makes nothing better anyways. I don’t get a lot of visitors here, so I guess, that no-one will even notice, that I am writing in English. What a stupid thing to do, being German, this not being my mother tongue and being a…