The new normal

Don't really know where to start. I guess most of you will have heard some way or the other that our main goal right now is to establish a new normal. A normal that might not really feel like normal for a long time but a normal that will have to do as we are here and life is just too precious to be waisted. I mean, recent events feel as the perfect illustration of the latter.

It does make you wonder. Wonder about a lot of things, big and small. Is all in life meant to be, should I have done things differently, should I have enjoyed things more, what if. No. That is actually where I try to draw the line. No what ifs as they don't really give me anything. It is not like I can turn back time. It is not that I can change something that has happened in the past. It is what it is and I am grateful. And tearful at times, but I try to be mostly grateful.

I have been with the love of my life for almost 20 years and we have been on the most amazing adventures (and the most amazing son!). Sure, we weren't done yet. Not by a long shot, but it is what it is and Mik and I need to keep going. And we are so determined to keep on going.

The past couple of weeks have been taken up by doing lots of paper work, making new friends at the different official instances and filling out even more forms after I met them. Have we found our new normal? Naaah, not yet. Not entirely anyway. Sometimes we have new normal moments and sometimes we so miss our old normal. But we keep on going and I have total confidence that we will get there.

Where there is?

There at least will be London as we just booked tickets to go city tripping in June (and go to the theatre). And there is Kathmandu. Not booked yet, but it is in the planning to go to Nepal next year and do the 3-week Annapurna trail that Marco and me did too. And New York as it feels that the only decent place to eat your first fresh bagel can only be New York. Oh and Svalbard as we do need to get to know our new homeland as best we can. And those theres are just a few theres we planned.

My main responsibility now is to make sure that Mik (continues) to feel that life has so much great to offer. That adventures await. That with every smile you give out, you get a smile back sooner or later. Gratitude for the adventures we enjoyed in the old normal and curiosity and drive to enjoy as many new adventures in the new normal as possible.

And gratitude for you guys following us on our journey and giving us a nudge in the right direction every once in a while if we do go astray.

Off to cuddle some huskypups now. Very much a new normal moment.