The past couple of weeks have been completely focused on closing some doors and opening new ones....
Letting go of our family home on Ibiza has been quite a struggle for my husband and I to be honest, since we got stuck in nostalgia while cleaning up and closing things that no longer serve us. The heaviness of leaving a place that once really felt like a true home to us, made us realize how easily we can get attached to things in life.
There have been several moments we've really doubted our decision to move away from our beloved island and letting go of all the comfort we felt we had there. To me the thought of not being able to count on Ibiza as my safe heaven really made me feel lost for a while.
This might sound crazy or stupid to some of you, but to me this place has been my home for more than a decade, which is something I never experienced before, because I used to move around a lot and didn't really attach to any specific house at all.
Going from one apartment to another over the years has made me very flexible to move, even on Ibiza I've moved so many times I lost count really! But the island itself always made me feel welcome and at home.
So the fact that we've given up our recent house on Ibiza didn't really matter in terms of housing, because I truly believe you can always find a new house anywhere you go, but the thing that really took me a while to process and accept, was the fact that I've entered a different season in my life....
The season and life phase that I feel starts with settling down in 1 place for a while.... Even though my husband and I never make 5 or 10 year plans and really still "go with the flow" and stay for as long as it feels right, we both noticed that something shifted.
The first 5 years of our daughter's life have been all about traveling and discovering the world together as a family, which feels like an enormous blessing to have been able to do that. However, we both felt it was time to set up camp somewhere...
Never in a million years would I have thought to move back to The Netherlands, or even consider Eindhoven as a home base for our family, but here we are...
A new season has started and we're excited about all the changes this brings!