Last Friday was my birthday. It conveniently fell on a Friday, so I had a whole weekend of birthday shenanigans ahead of me. Well, to be quite honest, it was mostly a laid-back weekend without too many obligations. More than fine by me. My birthday started out with a...
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I owe you a fun recap of my trip home in March, but I’ve decided to break it up in travel chunks, rather than trying to do one big blog post about all of it. ‘Cause honestly? It’s too overwhelming and I wouldn’t even know where to start. So a...
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Today I am turning 40 years old and I am kind of in shock, because I have no clue where the last decade went. I have a feeling that most people feel that way.Time perception is a weird thing. I’ve always felt like I lacked a few years behind my...
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It’s my birthday month! Hooray. I love me some March. Especially when good things are on the horizon that will make me completely forget about the fact that I am turning 40 this week. I mean, WHAT? I love birthdays (and think they need to be appropriately celebrated – every...
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J and I had a nice mellow weekend. We like it that way. However, this was not an ordinary weekend for two reasons… On Friday, I had the pleasure to finally – after 10 years! – meet up with one of my earliest blog friends again. Sanna was coming through...
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My birthday last week was lovely. I took the day off from work (shouldn’t everybody get their birthday off from work? I do think so!), slept in and then spent 4 hours on Skype and FaceTime with family and friends. It was wonderful! It’s the next-best thing to actually spending...
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Well, it’s my birthday (week) again and I thought it would be fun to reflect on my 38th year by sharing some moments and things that made the past year great. The year itself wasn’t really anything spectacular, meaning that there were no big changes (more a lot of unknowns)...
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Goodness, it’s March again already. Can you believe it? I am not complaining really, because I like March for a couple of reasons. One, it’s my birthday month (hooray!) and two, March brings along the beginning of spring. Well, to be honest, it has felt like spring around our parts...
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My birthday was earlier last week and I had planned ahead and worked some extra hours in advance so that I was able to take Monday off. It was a beautiful day and I started out with some coffee and birthday cake (cherry crumble cake – yum!). As you know,...
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Today my sweet niece Greta turns five years old. FIVE YEARS. WHAAAT? I mean. How is that even possible? She was just a baby. I talked to her earlier on the phone and it was like talking to a “grown up” person. She thanked me for her birthday gift (my...
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