Christmas traditions

This Christmas, we are not together. My Finnish girlfriend traveled five hours up north from Helsinki to her family, I drove to my homeplace too. Both families have different X-mas traditions. It's very nice these days to share the things we do with eachother, we learn a lot about both our families. We get to know our girlfriend better as well. And... last but not least, its only six nights of sleep until we will be reunited!
First we have some more traditions to share: Right now, as we speak, my girl is enjoying a Finnish sauna with her family, while I am watching the last hours of 3FM Serious Request. This afternoon I will bake 'kniepertjes' (very thin waffles) with my grandma, while my girlfriend is going to have a nice dinner and get some Christmas gifts. Here in The Netherlands we are not so much into gifts for Christmas, we already had Sinterklaas on the 5th of December. .... So, a lot to learn and compare. I suggest we take the best of both to our own Christmasses and Sinterklaas-celebrations next years!

I know what I want

Yeah, I know what I want. The last days the feeling to change my life to make it happier got stronger. I want to move to my big love in Helsinki. And I would like to do that today! But maybe that wouldn't be the wisest thing to do. We have to get to know each other better, because after all, we met at the end of July last summer. On the other hand, it feels like we have been together already for ages. It's so comfortable to be with her. We can talk about everything and we are not afraid to do 'stupid' or be crazy while being together. We have our personal problems or difficulties, work-related issues or just bad days. In those moments, we really want to be there for our girl. But also when great moments, happy thoughts and other daily activities take place, we want to share these!
I know what I want, I made an important step towards that goal last weekend, but I am are not there yet. I have to keep working on it. I want to be with her. Soon.

First decision

The first decision towards a happy future together is made. Last weekend I (the Dutch girl) decided to quit speed skating at this high level after this season. Two reasons: 1. My own satisfaction about my skating, 2. The possibility to live together with my Finnish love in the following year. It feels like opening the locked door for me. The only thing that would have made me stay in The Netherlands is skating, and now the road to Finland is open and quite easy. I feel sort of relieved.
Now the countdown to our next few days together is going on, only 12 nights of sleep left. On the 30th of December I will fly to Helsinki. We will celebrate New Year together! I'm so excited to go to her, meet her family and get to know the people that are really important to her.
Oh, we hope to live together in November... Yeah!

Feelings

I'm confused. Since my amazing girl went back home to Finland, I have mixed-up feelings. I feel bad since we had to split up again on Monday evening. But on the other hand, I am happy about that, because these feelings make me realize that she is the one for me. Living without her makes me unhappy. Last days together were the happiest in my life so far!

Happy together!

Wow! This was a great weekend together! Love is the best thing in the world. Short day-to-day description:

Busy days

Oh, sorry, it's been way too long since our last post. We really need to update more often... The thing is, there is only three nights of sleep between us! So great! The last weekend without each other (we used to count weekends) before we will meet passed.