Here we go again! Life in the country :)

Bonjour! Well, here we go again. Spring is coming, and so we are going to try to make this garden look nice again. And like every year, I feel completely overwhelmed, but our gardener is coming soon. He will do the big jobs, and my son is helping me getting the weeds out of the gravel. If you've been following me here, you know that every spring I question my entire life and all my life's decisions, especially concerning how we have created this garden. But I absolutely love the garden once it's all done and flowers are blooming, and I know that is the reward for all the hard work we put in each year. And whenever I feel completely overwhelmed and exhausted from all the work that comes with owning a house and property like this and running our businesses, I remind myself that I am living in my Pinterest board that I created 15 years ago, and I will never take that for granted. I have to admit that life is pretty busy at the moment. I am still working hard to get my cookbook finished, but there are so many dishes that I still have to cook again, and make sure I get all the measurements right so that I can write it down. Because so much of what I do is I just throw in a couple of things, but that doesn't work when somebody else needs to be able to make that recipe. And so I am cooking things again and again, and making sure that I get the exact quantities right. And then of course I want to photograph everything, which I need to do during the day because else I don't have enough daylight. And I'm trying to get all of this done while we are still finishing our guest room. We'll have family visiting, we want to make sure that it's all finished before they come. And then I'm still seeing my dentist every week. I have to say there is progress, but my body is not liking having all this work being done in my mouth all the time. But he's a really good dentist, I trust him. But all in all, with all the driving and it just takes a lot of time, so I feel like I'm not really progressing with anything. But again, we're still in winter, even though I am so looking forward to spring, and my mind's already in spring. Technically, energetically, it's still winter. And I know that my body just isn't the same during winter, and I'm just not as productive as I am during other months. So I'm just trying to stay calm, keep being very present, just doing my everyday things, making sure we're all well-fed. As soon as I don't eat well, I get very cranky. And we're also very busy with our oldest, who is going to go to college. There's lots of decisions that he needs to make for this year. So we're just busy doing life. And sometimes I wonder how I managed, over 20 years ago, when I wasn't self-employed yet, how on earth I managed to get everything done. But I didn't have kids back then, so maybe life was a little easier. But I'm just grateful that we are both working from home, that we're able to organize our days, and that we're able to live this beautiful life with so much freedom. But all of that being said, I don't really have a lot of updates for you. I wish I could show you more of our guest room that we're trying to finish, but we're just not there yet. So that will have to be for another video. I'm just sharing what I've been up to this week with you, just simple everyday life. You seem to like that a lot, actually. I'm always worried that it's boring, but a lot of you have said that you actually like just seeing what our everyday life looks like. I'm really happy to know that my videos bring you joy, or a little escape, or just a moment to relax with your coffee. I really love reading all of your comments. So again, thank you so much for watching, and see you next week!