Posts Tagged ‘family’

Today is christmas day in our new home. In our old home – where we spent the last two weeks – christmas eve was yesterday! Flo and I celebrated together with both our familys and had a wonderful time with a lovely dinner. Flo and I gave each other the trip to Germany for christmas. The trip was supposed to be a bit more relaxing, but we still had a great time with our family and friends.

Tomorrow – just in time for the end of christmas – Flo and I are gonna go home. Home now means going to Los Angeles for us. And yes, we already miss it like hell! This week I showed my dad some of the photos we took during the last year and really got homesick. Even if we only spent 11 months in the US so far, we both think that the decision to move there was the best we could make! A friend lately asked us, if we regret moving to Los Angeles sometimes. And we both honestly and without thinking too long said that we havent regreted it once so far!

Moving is not for everyone. Especially because you leave so many friends and your family behind. But for Flo and me it means the world to have the chance to live in Los Angeles. To be happy there and to have a second home!

I hope everyone had a great christmas, that you spent it with all the people you love and that you can start the new year happy and with a lot of dreams to fullfil!

Flo and I have been on our little german vacation for a little over a week now. I waited till now to write this first “german” post to be sure about my feelings for Germany. But now – after a week – I can honestly say: Moving to the US was the best decision I made in a long time. For sure I am beyond happy to see my family and friends, but I can’t say the same about Germany. Actually I am a little disappointed. I expected to come back to Germany and at least be a little nostalgic. But no, I am actually a little annoyed. And I already miss my new home LA.

I know that it’s a good sign that I miss my new home and not my old one. But I honestly never expected to feel like that about the country I lived in for the first 28 years of my life. Maybe it’s because I’ve just lived in the US for a little less than a year. But I feel like I found the place where I should be (at least for now). I think I never wrote about this, but since we moved to the US I feel way more comfortable, happy and relaxed. In Germany I always somehow felt pressure. To succeed, to do better or only to look better. That is something that I haven’t felt in a long time now. That’s probably, because we are successful in the US and because I fulfiled a lifelong dream of mine. But it makes me happy to see (again) that I have made the right decision.

With this knowledge I can enjoy my german vacation. But I also already look forward to go home! Home to the beach, home to our new friends and home to our new life. A new life which I honestly love!

Flo and I constantly get asked what about Germany and what kind of german things we miss over here. Our friends and family don’t want to go on our nerves with asking these questions over and over again. They basically just want to know what to bring or send us to do us a favor. But against every expectations we had, so far we don’t really miss anything. At least not things you can just bring or send over.

Before we moved here I actually thought there might be certain foods, groceries or beauty products that I might miss. Bread, a few of you might think of as an example. No, Flo and I don’t miss bread. We found bread we like over here and Whole Foods even sells german bread. Flo and I never were big fans of Maggi or other german stuff like that, so we don’t miss that. Flo actually misses german Mettwurst (a kind of Tartar you eat on breadrolls). But that’s basically everything we miss.

I didn’t want to make this post about the people we miss and our families, so please don’t think I don’t miss them just because I don’t mention it. But: Flo and I (so far) don’t really miss Germany at all. And that surprised me a lot! Maybe this is another proof of how right the decision was to move here!