Busy weekend

Friday evening around eight o’clock we left home to head to our family weekend with my father's side of the family. Two nights we stayed there and mom forgot to bring the plugs of the airbed, so we had to come up with replacement for that. Luckily an uncle of mine thought of sticking some bamboo sticks in there. That did work, only my bed was a bit too hard and I was afraid that when I would leave a bit of air out I wouldn’t get the stick back in. So the nights of sleep in our little tent weren’t that comfortable and left me pretty tired when the weekend was over.


When we arrived all of them were watching soccer and cheering for the Netherlands, but as I’m not really that big of a fan of soccer, me and some others that weren’t either, went outside with some tea and enjoying the view we had.


At this very weekend I have surprised myself big time, normally this kind of weekend is a big trigger for my anxiety. I don’t see my family very often and it’s a big group of people all being very extrovert and well, I’m not. But I made conversations, had a laugh and really enjoyed myself, of course, there were times my anxiety was triggered. My cousin was interviewing me about my anxiety and gave me a task he thought was good for me, which made me feel very uncomfortable, but saying this to him was something I didn’t know how to, of course he was meaning well and probably didn’t know this was bothering me. I do really appreciate his thought and what he was trying to do, it's a very nice thought and I know he was trying to help, but it only made it worse that day.


Saturday we chatted some more, went to Sneek (which was fun, there was music and people dancing and performing), had a game of volley-ball and found out I suck at volleyball, I missed every ball I possibly could. In the evening we had a BBQ and filled ourselves with delicious chicken and both nights that we were there we sat by the fire, we went late to be and made early mornings.


Sunday morning we had to leave early, Eight o’clock to be precise, to get to another family day and this time the family on my mother's side. There we spend our day chatting, throwing water balloons and watching all the dogs play. We ended the day with some delicious dinner and said goodbye.


I had a splendid weekend, but I have a lot of sleep to catch.


Do any of you have these kind of weekends or days where you spent time with your entire family?

Beach walk

Last Sunday I took a walk on the beach with my family. Here are some pictures.

 

No one got injured

Last weekend I had another family weekend. This time with the family at my fathers side. Now you probably wonder what I mean with my title. Well, ever since we started a family weekend every year, there had not been one where everybody got home without any injuries. Last year for example, one of my uncles broke his teeth during a competition; who gets first over the finish line (in the tops of the trees). The years before that people broke bones, but not this year.

Yes my family loves a little competition, they always want to be the best and they will go a little bit farther then they actually could.

This year only phones broke (phones and water don’t always see eye to eye).

I enjoyed the weekend a lot (a little distraction is always good).

I’ve tried some archery and surprised myself, I wasn’t as bad as I thought I would be. I mean I’ve hit the balloon when I was supposed to. Not that it went well from the first try, my arrow hit the object of the other team (I aimed to the one of us).

After shooting some arrows we went and sit down by the fire for some chatting.

Sleeping was one of the things I had not enjoyed. When I went to bed, my toes where frozen (I wasn’t wearing proper shoes for the night) and they kept me awake. Just when I almost fell asleep my adorable three year old niece (not so adorable then) started to cry and scream in her sleep (something she apparently does often), for her to be quiet you had to first wake her up, but she couldn’t hear her mom. So you can understand after no sleep in the weekend I was pretty exhausted.

I’ve had good conversations, good tips (always welcome) and some lovely time with my younger nieces that dragged my every where to show me stuff and to play with me.

The keep it short, it was lovely to see everybody again. I had a great time.


How was your weekend?

xx

Family weekend!!

Last weekend i had my Family weekend. My whole Family on my mothers side was there (that’s 24 people all together).

We stayed up late playing games like hints, who am I and BINGO. We also talked a lot (the chatty family as we are). At first I needed a bit time to get used to all these people, I only see one day a year, before I could be chatty with everybody. But around the second day I felt comfortable enough to be myself, apart from the time I took this big step. That big step I made Saturday was letting al my family members reed the stories I wrote for the selection from the school I wanted to be in (those got me through the first round). Luckily for me they all liked it and I got positive reactions from everybody. During the time they where reading me peaces my head turned red like a tomato, something that happens to me every time I’ve been placed in the middle of all the attention.

I had a lovely weekend, exhausting, but lovely. I can’t wait till the next weekend over five years.