Ellen In Amerika!

It has been a while since I blogged, but today I felt I wanted to write again. It might also have to do with my “new” and so much faster computer (Dan’s old one, he has a Mac now ). I hope you are all doing fine and to my American friends/readers: Have a great “Thank You Giving Day”. I can say for sure, I am so thankful for so many things that have been and is currently going on in my life. My life here in The United States of America with Dan is so much more than my already high expectations anticipated. Being part of this country, despite how chaotic and messed up Congress is doing, I love it here.

It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… All before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We’re such slow learners…   A sliced [...]

Again it has been a very long time since I wrote here. I do not know why, but I am not so inspired lately. When I started to blog, I did it to share my life here with my family in the Netherlands and keep them updated with my new life here in the States. After about a year, I decided to write in English, mainly because some of my American family in law were reading this post and surprisingly, also people from around the world who did the effort to read my posts through Google translate. It has been a joy to discover that I had readers with whom I am staying in contact and who became my blog buddies.

We are back from a great vacation in the Smokey Mountains with Dan’s family, now also my family  It has been a wonderful time.  We had so much fun and nice talks. We did adventurous activities and we relaxed a lot.   One of the activities was Zip lining. This was by far the most adventurous activity [...]

What a nice weekend we had. Saturday morning we went to the gym, and we had a great workout. After coming home, I took a shower and made a quick lunch. At 2.30 PM Dan took me to work. My shift went fine. Not overly busy, but still enough to do to not become bored. Dan picked me up at 11.30 PM, and we watched a recorded movie, Taken with Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen (a Dutch actress!). We already had seen this one years ago, but it was still good to see it again. Unfortunately I fell asleep after 20 minutes of watching, so we went to bed.