Christmas visit as a mom‑to‑be – my parents are here!

Loved spending Christmas Eve at home with my boys, but if you’ve been reading for a while you know the holidays are best for me when the whole family is involved and, ideally, I get to host them. This is how this year started too, but then the dates got a bit scrambled, so this Christmas we get a bit of everyone, just at different times.​

After our cozy little family Christmas Eve, my parents were up first, whom we were (very, very) eagerly expecting on the 25th. You always feel that you miss your loved ones, but that feeling really hits hardest when they’re finally here and you feel the difference between video calls and real hugs.​

I would never want to downplay how important they are to me, but when they told me that in that huge wrapped bundle they had actually brought me my piano (no idea how or when they managed to get it out of the storage unit in Vác where the rest of our “waiting-to-travel” things are), I was completely overwhelmed. My dad and Laci set it up in the bedroom while my mum, Rú and I were putting the finishing touches on lunch, and ever since then it’s the last thing I play at night and the first thing I touch in the morning.​

Thank you so, so much… Unfortunately they could only stay for one night, but we made the most of it with shared meals, a walk around town, some archery for the boys and, for us girls: sewing!​

I got the first sewing machine of my life, and at the best possible time. I insisted on sewing the baby blanket by hand (that deserves its own post, because it really is a story in itself), but I have so many more little DIY projects in mind that will be a thousand times more fun and look so much more polished this way. Cannot wait to really dive into those patterns!