Count your blessing - December 2025

1. Waking up from anaesthesia smoothly
2. Eating puree after 24 hours of yoghurt...such a blessing to have something more filling
3. Bingewatching a full day in the sofa
4. Going with my mom to the cemetary in Ghent in the pouring rain to visit my baby sister and baby brother together... something we've not done anymore probably in the last 25 years. 
5. (Almost) stressless exams for Kabouter
6. Many left-over vacation days to plan making work in December very intermediate. 
7. Helping for the first edition of Walk for Streetkids (the former #duwmee) for Mobile School
8. Walking for Streetkids with friends
9. Drinking hot Aperol at the Christmas market
10. Volunteering at the Rotary booth at the Christmas market
11. Jan's surgery going smooth and not needing a 3rd intervention as first thought.
12. Our friends visiting us for a brunch and then a visit the abbey's Christmas market 
13. Sitting together listening to the carillon's concert on a bench at the abbey's fish ponds
14. Kabouter spotting and talking to Jo Claes at the abbey's Christmas market
15. Returning to the Leuven Christmas market with friends for drinks together
16. Driving to Deinze to meet up for lunch with a friend.
17. Getting medical clearance to go scuba diving again
18. Friends driving up to Belgium's highest point to have a walk with us. 
19. The story of Hafsa at the Warmste Week that moved me so much and then the news the days after with thousands of donors signing up.... a bit of hope for Hafsa to find a match but also so important for all the others on waiting lists. 
20. Christmas gatherings with the family that were rather relax
21. Napping in the sofa
22. Winterwalks in blue sky at the east of Belgium
23. Jan and the boys cooking wiht the boys: fresh pasta, home-made croquettes, ...
24. The Beyond Paradise Christmas special and the looking forward to the Death in Paradise Christmas special at the start of the New Year and then the Return to Paradise new season starting.
25. A week not driving anywhere (myself)

This is a monthly list of simple things in my life that make me happy or that make me smile.  

As the world often seems full of negativity and disaster, I want to pay attention to these small things that make me happy in my daily life and be grateful for them. You can find all of them via this link