finally going home!

it has been decided a couple of days ago: i am going home with the boys(as in sons)! we are leaving in 10 days. i am so happy(i am sitting here, clapping my hands like a small child). it was august last year that i was walking on dutch soil! in my mind i am already in the car motoring along the 'route du soleil' in france, like between metz and thionville, going up and over the rolling hills. i am getting more and more hyper. making lists of what to buy, and that's why we go by car. on the aeroplane i always have trouble with being 'overweighed' a kilo or 20. i have to buy 'drop'(licorice as you can nowhere buy it), hagelslag(chocolate sprinkles to put on bread), tomatosoup, rookworst(smoked sausage), tea, tulip bulbs, etc., etc. i have to go to the gardencenter intratuin to buy stuff, a.k.a. things that will be cute, gather dust and are not very necessary for my hubby, but oh so nice for making my home and garden 'gezellig'(meaning cozy, but even better!). i have to buy clothes that are my style. i change books with my bookfriend(there are always 2 bags each filled with exactly ten books going back and forth). i am looking in the internet to decide with the boys where we will go and what we will see. we have our ceremonies, our things that we do there. like riding our bikes after diner about the city or walking and looking into peoples lives thru their windows(we dutch don't do curtains). we go to the different playgrounds, inside and outside. we are going to visit two cousins and their families. i am sooooo haaaaapy!!!!!! i will sit with my cousins for hours, sipping tea and talking loads, that'll be sooooo nice! talking about the past and whatever is going on now. i really miss my people and my country. i wish i could go there every weekend, but that would be to expensive. i like living where i live, but i miss 'my things' from back home!