Home Sweet Home in Bennebroek

Today is National Soup Day in Holland. Yep, you read that correctly. :) What exactly is National Soup Day, you ask? It’s one day a year when companies and restaurants serve a nice bowl of soup for free in exchange for a contribution to a child’s meal. For every 20 cents donated, a child gets a meal. It’s really a lovely idea to feed the needy – and the whole country gets involved. Yeah, the name made me laugh, but the cause is wonderful.

I have something very exciting to share… drum roll please… we got the house!!!!! YEAH!!! Very exciting. VERY exciting. Amen bruthuhs and sistuhs! We found out today around noon and I have been floating ever since. We got a killer deal – the sellers dropped pretty drastically right away. I guess it is a sign of the times. I would feel badly that they didn’t get much, expect that I happen to know what they bought the house for and they’re walking away with a good 35k still. Perfect, no. But a little equity, yep. AND they gifted us our first house. Our first house! We can do stuff to it and not have to feel like it’s wasted euros!! I have been daydreaming for a week now about all the things we could do with this house. There’s nothing “wrong” with it, per say. Yeah, a couple things will need to be redone/replaced/ripped out…. But nothing that must happen. And that feels really good. We don’t get to move in until middle of January, but hey, why rush spending a little more right away when we can clean out what we have, sell things we don’t need anymore, and pack with a little calm? That’s a new one for both of us!

Home sweet home! Our new home is in “Bennebroek”, pronounced “behnehbrook”. Cute, eh?