Hello for 2026! This is my first post of the New Year. That’s exciting. Like every year, I want to highlight some of the best moments of 2025 and highlight my vision for 2026.

2025

Baking bread: started making my own sourdough starter and baking bread

A new member joined our family, a baby girl. Grateful for those precious first moments of getting to know each other

Read some good books and returned to some of my favourite ones while postpartum

Lots of walks, many sea swims, a couple of sauna visits, many cups of dark hot chocolate

My language school. Our website went down in February, so I tried to figure out how to re-establish it, and managed to create this beautiful new site for our language courses and tuition

Carless life. I don’t drive and while commuting, I love reading with my children or coming up with some games for all of us to play

My favourite of all: carrying my baby in a sling and holding hands with my older children.

2026

The garden: dreaming of creating a beautiful herb patch

Bikes: two bikes to buy so we can start cycling again. Cannot wait!

Reading: I’d like to advocate reading more, to show my love for it. I hope my enthusiasm is contagious

Patreon. I wanted to introduce this platform to support my blogging and I finally opened my Patreon’s site and you can visit it and read my first book review there. I think it’ll be a lovely way to have a place where you, my readers, can support my blogging. I plan to publish posts about books, family travels, bilingualism, dark (hot) chocolate and cooking / baking

1 % rule. More plans? No. 1 per cent rule? Yes. After reading Atomic Habits, I want to introduce change on a very small scale first. Small and easy (but still very often: incredibly big and difficult to leave your old ‘not-wanted’ habits behind)

These are my moments of 2025 and visions for 2026. I feel ready to thrive and be prosperous in 2026! I also want to wish you a wonderful year. 

Till next time!