Time for a different parallel...: New Year and Christmas celebration!

First of all I would like to wish you all the very, very best for 2014!

At my parents!

Boomer is feeling relaxed for the New Year to come but wasn't so happy for all the fireworks when it was Midnight! To hear all the fireworks 28 times louder than we can't be so funny!

Fabulous meals and fun conversations!

Not really winter weather.....

When one year comes to an end it always, at least for me, makes me reflect about the year that past by and fills me with hope and expectations about the year to come.

We had an exciting year but also some very harsh tidings and during the last year of this year I couldn’t help thinking about last years when a friend of us and his wife passed by at our house on the US base in Seoul. This year she’s no longer with us so her husband and children must have had a hard time celebrating. But I’m also filled with happiness for our children are doing great. Valerie and Claes are enjoying the fact of being parents to Ellinor and Vincent and Jenna are enjoying their puppy Jax. My parents are doing great and so are my brothers, their families and most of our friends. Actually what more can one wish for.

We celebrated this changing of the year in The Netherlands with my parents and had a great time, recalling old memories and talking about our adventures in Korea. We even stayed for some days with Valerie , Claes and Ellinor.

Christmas we celebrated with Vincent, Jenna and Jax! All of them contributed again to my tradition, since fifteen years back, to write a Christmas poem for every person present. This isn’t really appreciated just before Christmas but even more when the moment has come to read them. And honestly its fun and touching for it has nothing to do with the present to be given but about what has been and what will hopefully come…..

Well I hope you all had wonderful days with near and dear ones and are now looking forward to having a great New Year!

Love Anja