The little things count! Banana mango smoothie

Our first stay in Spain

Although I'm very happy being where we are now, in our own apartment, which is much bigger than you'd expect a 1-bedroom apartment to be, I also miss the view of the first stay (AirBNB) because sitting outside on your own terrace with a sea view enjoying the cool ocean breeze has something calming and magical! I really enjoyed opening all the windows in the morning for a brief moment until the sun hit our windows and it was time to close everything to keep the heat outside. But I, even more, enjoyed the moments when it was the end of the afternoon when the biggest heat would start to arrive, but our balcony was actually slowly cooling down because of the sun being on the other side of the building.

Grateful for the little things

Sitting on the terrace would make me feel humble and grateful for being in Spain as well as finally feel lighter again. The language around us, the friendly people greeting us on the streets as well as the waiters when sitting down for a tapa, all adds up to these tiny moments of feeling intensely grateful. I feel at home, even though Spain is not my birth country, when we settled here for 14 months some years before leaving for Hungary, I felt homesick from the first moment. We had no better options at the time, so we made the most out of a situation that was not ideal, this time we managed to get back here by our own choice and not because it was the best option out there. We want to be here, which is a huge difference in all the planning and the overall experience.

Not a day without feeling grateful

Ever since we arrived, there hasn't been one day that I said out loud that I'm so grateful and happy to be here. This is our home, we did it, and it's actually different than we envisioned (our home) but maybe even better as we don't need to fill up 3 bedrooms with stuff, and can also work on having a more minimalistic lifestyle. While we don't have our own little terrace in our new home, I just enjoy browsing through the pictures I took when we had a sea view a few weeks ago, enjoying a banana & mango smoothie. It was delicious and even better sitting there absorbing the environment.

Smoothies for the win

Our daughter is the easiest to convince new flavors when they arrive in smoothies. To make sure she at least gets some veggies and fruit every day, I make smoothies for us. A few days ago, my boyfriend went to the evening store to grab a drink and came home with a blender instead haha. He found one for a good price and I've been very happy since because now I can finally create healthy smoothies again, which I had been missing for the past weeks.

Things are coming together

Slowly, and bit by bit, we are collecting everything we need at home again. Now I just need to find a way to store things logically because we have so much storage space that I'm overwhelmed and actually wonder where to put everything we have so far. Strange, isn't it? Usually, you'd have the problem of NOT having enough storage room, at least, that's what we had in every single home so far! Even though some of these places had more bedrooms! Most were just super unlogic furniture-wise and here it makes more sense. I'm happy! Did I say that already? :)

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