Thoughtful lady

Just something I found while cleaning out my stuff the other day. This I drew in ninth grade art class. More to come *smile*

Happy Birthday, Mom!

You mean the world to me. I’m so glad that our relationship has grown from mother, daughter into great friends. You are one of the best friends I’ve ever had. I love you!

-Abigail

Walking

Just like most of the rest of you I had a ton of good food over this past holiday season. While I definitely enjoyed it I did NOT enjoy the fact that almost none of my clothes fit afterwards! Since we’ve been experiencing some unseasonably warm weather up here in Indiana, Joel and I have made it our habit to go walking just about every day. There’s a walking track about a quarter of a mile from my house :

And so we walk down there and then walk around it two or three times and then back to the house, which equals around two or three miles…..

SO after about a week and a half of that and Taekwondo three times a week all my clothes are fitting quite nicely again. Yea! *smile*

Pack-Rat…

I used to be one, notice emphasis on used! Today I cleaned out all my boxes that I had put up in the attic over the years…

Yes, you are looking at about ten years worth of accumulated school papers, drawings, pictures, shells, rocks, nic-nacs…you get the picture. Basically a ton and a half of junk, 16 boxes worth to be exact! Today (with Joel’s help) I drug it all down out of the attic and did a massive house cleaning. Here’s how it looked about halfway through:

At this point I did say that I was done, I quit, this was a bad idea and I was going to bed (even though it was only about 5pm). Joel, being the loving fiance that he is, told me to take a break and then helped motivate me back into finishing. So, twelve hours, three trash bags and one Goodwill bag later…

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Down to only six boxes. Period. Honestly it wasn’t that horrible. I found a lot of pictures, letters, drawings and things that I hadn’t seen in ages. It was a nice trip down memory lane and my final step into pack-ratlessness…Good deal, huh?

My desktop

I miss her so much…I miss all of them, my whole Dutch family. I miss The Netherlands in general. It’s still strange for me to go into the city and hear everything in English. I’m just used to hearing Dutch whenever I’m in a big city…I miss Dutch so much I downloaded an updated version of Itunes today and when given the option I downloaded it in Dutch. My MSN instant messenger is still in Dutch…lol. I don’t know. It’s not that I don’t like being home because I do. There are just so many things I miss….*sigh* So yeah,
the USA is my home again and I’m happy about that but The Netherlands will always hold a special place in my heart and I can’t wait to see my Dutch family again. *grin*