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New life’s luxuries
I’m so tired, having started work and everything. You’ll excuse my absence. Just to say I’m alive. But very tired. And I’m at that stage that when I have an important event then I’m so full of adrenaline that I barely manage to fall asleep. And then I wake up at 1-2 am to stay…
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Runaway cat
(Written on Friday, forgot to click publish) The cat has disappeared Wednesday morning or around that time, because she didn’t come at breakfast. During the summer she sleeps mainly outside and now with autumn and winter she sleeps with us. It was a bit weird that she wasn’t there for breakfast. I called her when…
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Back to black
I started work this week. You know this image of a huge wave getting bigger and bigger and waiting to hit you? I’m really excited to get back to work but I feel like every day I’m running a marathon. Get ready quickly, nursery drop off, arrive at work, leave before traffic jams, get home,…
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Garden updates #1
Let me start by saying that we have a huge garden. There are smaller parks than our garden. But as huge and as magnificent as it is, it takes time to keep it in shape. It takes even more time to modify or to improve some things. Even if you’d have a month and do…
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Keeping busy
These past two weeks have been a bit intense. I start work next Monday after a break of almost 12 months and the little one started the accommodation weeks at the nursery. When we signed the contract with the nursery (may 2022, was two months pregnant hah!) I didn’t pay attention to many things since…
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Rambling
My intention with this blog was to write what goes through my head, funny stories that happened to me, about life in Luxembourg, some thoughts and so on… I have a no social media baby policy (I think it’s self explanatory) because for many years I didn’t share many things about me and don’t think…
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Searching for Dar Motan
For those of you who don’t know Dar Motan (and understandably so), it’s a collection of children books written by the Romanian writer Cristina Andone. Until a couple of months ago, I didn’t know about him either. This is where our story begins. I went with a friend at a store in a town north…
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Holidays à la française
This year’s holidays were… surprise surprise… in France. This is because my father is absolutely in love with France and there are two or three things that he wants to see each time. I’d choose any other country, but I may be biased since I’m living here and I have explored most of the corners…
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The last weeks …
… of sleeping late-ish (8:30!) and of no schedule, of making plans on the go… … and of my parental leave. In Luxembourg you get to choose what type of parental leave you want. Before giving birth, the mother has two months off (calculated based on the due date). After birth, there are three months…
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What’s in a name?
I started reading a new book, Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. I’m still at the beginning so without too many spoilers I hope, I found this quote: Elizabeth shook her head. “Our future happiness does not depend on whether or not we’re married, Calvin—at least not to me. I’m fully committed to you; marriage…