being married

This is how we met

March 4, 2013

It was a stunning May day, one of those with the heat of summer but still the fresh smell of spring. I left the small dark church with its pews and stained glass into the freedom of this glorious day and walked down the long hill to the Sunday market. There I found the stall [...]

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practising Christmas across cultures

January 2, 2013

I’m a huge lover of traditions, of all shapes and sizes. I read church liturgy and thumb through books on the lives of saints with interest. I am inspired by stories of friends celebrating the solstices and equinox days, marking the changing seasons. I eagerly learn about Buddhist prayer flags, and how Jews celebrate the [...]

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day 30: finding love as an expat

November 2, 2012

Rasmus and I met at a picnic in the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels on a warm May day. I was nine months into a ten month internship and only just now starting to feel like maybe it would be okay if I stayed a bit longer. My first six months had been lonely and [...]

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mourning the path not taken

September 10, 2012

My future was decided early on. I was going to spend my days cuddling African babies under an African sun. I felt the blood of my great great aunt and her missionary life running in my veins and my young passionate spirit wanted to follow in her footsteps. I spent my teen years reading the [...]

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when being brave is scary

March 7, 2012

This conversation happened last night, as I was standing in the kitchen, stirring the vegetables in the hot frying pan and leaning my forehead against the too-low extractor fan. Rasmus sat on the other side of the counter, on one of our red bar stools, a Leffe in one hand. We do this, in the [...]

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on romance

February 14, 2012

You probably haven’t missed that today is Valentine’s Day. No wait, before you click away again, let me finish. I’m totally with you on not really appreciating all the hype around this little day. Roses are far from being my favourite flower (higher on the list come daisies, fresias, fuschias, hyacinths). I would rather receive [...]

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pølsehorn

December 7, 2011

Did I ever tell you the story about the party I threw for my friend Marissa in my old flat? It was October of 2008 and Rasmus and I were just friends but spending a lot of time together. I’d organised the party at my place and invited all our friends, asking them to bring [...]

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Settling in

December 1, 2011

Home Sweet Home print from J M Barclay’s etsy page Today it’s been nine days since we moved to Luxembourg. Some of you have asked me how we have been settling in. Well in the past nine days I have… unpacked about 3/4 of our boxes made lists of furniture to buy and DIY tasks to complete [...]

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two years

October 11, 2011

“through a thousand worlds waits weightless love…” Jeg elsker dig, min mand x

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wedding graduate

April 21, 2011

Remember that Rasmus and I got married 18 months ago? Photo by the wonderful Fancy who should certainly have been paid for the amount of work she did for our wedding… Well if you’re not already so over reading about it, then my wedding graduate post is up today over at A Practical Wedding. I [...]

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