the art of living

Happy New Year everyone! For me this Year has started very differently than every other Year. I am now a mother. A mother with a New born baby and that changes everything…

The past 8 weeks have been the most beautiful and most challenging I ever had. How can this be at the same time? How can a little baby that you love more than anything break you down and make you cry? Make you doubt your choices and mourn a ‘You’ that is forever gone and it’s not coming back. This is a time you are meant to be enjoying, not wishing it to go away.

”Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” Linda Wooten

But this is motherhood. The sleepless nights, the constant worrying, having a baby attached to you 24/7, eating with one hand, not eating, physically hurting, crying when nobody sees you, doubting everything and everyone, being angry, desperate, happy, full of Love, patient, grateful. All in once! And through all that how can you ever be the same? When all the emotions in the world are challenging you, pushing you to your limits and beyond, all at the same time. You can’t. You have to mould yourself and find a version of you that you didn’t even know it existed. What version is that? You will choose. Because you can either be the best or the worst.

And this is how I entered 2026. Full of doubt and fear of what I will become. And then there is this tiny smile and those tiny eyes that are looking at you like you are the whole world. And I just know that I have to become the Best! For him… And if you are going through the same, just keep going and be the Best that you can! You are not alone! There is more of us… Happy New Year! Happy 2026!