High five!

I’m busy preparing everything for our musical The Wiz of Oz this weekend, so it’s a quick high five today!

Five top things:

1. Seeing my cute neeces again.

Don’t we look a lot like each other?!

2. Icecream!

Cinnamon icecream with sugared pieces of cinnamon inside. Yum!

3. More icecream!

My birthday was Sunday and my friends and hubs took me to my fave restaurant. This was dessert :-)

4. Cute notebook.

The same friends gave me this cute notebook! Handmade by her sister, I totally love it! (and do you recognize our logo on it? Cool!)

5. Flowers.

Bought myself some flowers! And yes, one vase is a Coca cola glass and the other one's a wine bottle.

Linking up with Lauren Elizabeth!

Happy weekend!

Friday.

So after the very sad news my aunt had passed away, I was going through a lot of crazy things.

One moment so mad at myself for being too busy to visit her, other moments feeling better. Feeling guilty for feeling better.

Feeling joy seeing my students, who gave a lot of love this week. Most of them not knowing I was so sad.

So, here we are at the end of the week. The beginning of a weekend I do not want to start. Tomorrow is the funeral. But this is life. And we better celebrate it, than sit on our sad butts.

And because life always has a bright side, I better look at it today :-)

My five top things:

1. A nice present.

Our intern is leaving us and gave me two sorts of tea, chocolate and a box for tea. She is so sweet.

2. Villeroy and boch.

We have very expensive mugs, but we love to use them everyday. Why wait for special occasions? These are the espresso cup, the coffee mug and the tea mug (which I used for my cappuccino that morning).

3. Dinner date.

I saw my sweet and funny friend (and niece) Latoya and her boyfriend again, after months of not seeing her. She cooked us a delicious pasta and a Salad Caprese. I will leave out the part where we watched old videotapes of us lip syncing to the Backstreet Boys.

Oops, sorry for the weird iPhone-is-taking-a-picture-shadow.
And btw, the strawberry mint tea is great! 

Life.

So we run a business.
It's succesfull, it makes me happy, it makes other people smile and it's full of love. Lots and lots of love.

But running a business is also very hard work.
People always say how you can manage your own time, that you can take the day off when you want to. That's not true of course. Who is going to teach when we take a day off? Who will be answering all the emails? Who will do my work? Exactly, no one will. So I have to do it myself. If I decide to get up two hours late, I'll go to bed two hours late too.
But yes, this business is our choice, so I'm not complaining.

Except today.
I have been working for 5 weeks in a row now. Not a single day off. I counted my working hours one week and decided never to count it again. Insane. But still, not complaining.
So let me tell you about the part I hate.
You can't see your friends and family often and run a business at the same time.
And I missed some important stuff.
I couldn't see our nephew eating his cake on his first birthday.
I couldn't play silly games at the babyshower of my very dear friend.
I couldn't visit my sick aunt in the hospital.
And she died today.
She. Died. Today.

You can probably imagine how I feel.
And you may ask, is it all worth it? Well, the answer is probably yes. Some kid will say something sweet to me tomorrow and I will smile, thinking this is just life.
And life is not supposed to be easy. And though bad things happened, lots of good stuff happened too. Lots!
It is just called life.

But today, life sucks.

High five for Friday!

Can’t say I’ve had an interesting, inspiring week.

Can’t name five highs. So I’ll just post a pics of something pretty i found this week. And the five things I love about it.

1. There are soooo many cute icons to choose from. I change them constantly ‘cause I’m not satisfied yet.

2. It’s mostly pink.

3. There are lots of dots.

4. I get very happy when I look at my iPhone.

5. I have an icon that calls my hubs when I tap it. It’s a picture of an apple. Because he’s an AppleFrank Applefreak.

Linking up with Lauren. Happy weekend!

The app is called Cocoppa. Have fun ;-)