I realize I’ve been repeating myself month after month, but I’m astonished by how fast 2016 is going by. Feels just like yesterday that it was summer and here we are again, a year later, marking out second anniversary of moving to New York City. Life hasn’t gotten easier, but we are surely getting to a better place. I was thinking about it a few days ago, how it seems like it’s been longer and how I feel like we are in the same place we were. Of course that’s not true, but being away from home never gets easier and I get the feeling that we are just growing apart from it more.

I know it’s only been five months since I was last home, but that seems an eternity and I miss it. Especially in the summer of course, but as we get older, it gets harder. I often ask myself what am I doing here, if I’ll regret it one day, if I’ll miss it, if I’ll look back and wish I had done it differently…

July is going to be a very transitioning month because we have a lot in our plate. One of our closest couple friends are finally moving to New York – and I’m still in shock. The conversation started more than a year ago and I was highly skeptical, because you never expect people to actually move, but later next week or the week after, one of them is making the move and the other comes by summer’s end. How crazy is that? Maybe that’s also one of the reasons why I’ve been thinking so much about living abroad, now we have yet another (huge) reason to stay. And summer is already halfway through!

It’s July!

(Images from here)