The Path Forward- Our One Year Plan

For the past year many people have asked about our long term plans. There is a lot of uncertainty and we have always been able to say simply that we are trusting God to provide, as we just have no idea what the future holds. Whatever plops on our path we will embrace and simply work with it! We are now really excited to tell that we do have a one year plan! A few weeks ago Maurits received his working visa to come to Canada for one year and work. He gave his notice at work, and we booked the flight a couple weeks ago. August 4 we will be in Canada together! After 2 weeks spent in Smithers with the family we are planning on finding a place to live and work for Maurits in the Fraser Valley. As of yet we do not have either a job or a place, so if you hear of anything let us know! Again, there is uncertainty but it stretches our trust muscles yet a little further, and we know that with exercise comes extra strength. So we go forward, believing this to be our best option and from there simply working with what God will provide.

I hope you are all doing well also! Enjoy your week, 

Maurits and Kim

Weddings and sunshine!

As you may have guessed by the blogs silence, there has not been too much spare time in the agenda! At times it feels like chaotic busyness, running around like a chicken  about to be butchered, but mostly i am so thankful to be busy. If there is too much time for myself than I am worse than a chaotic chicken running around without a head (these metaphors you learn from having previously lived in a chicken hobby farm...)

A 'refined' looking chicken famer and her handsome man at Maurits' brothers wedding

And just because we think we are so good looking...

A nice evening walk. 

Actually Kirsten and Leeaane (from Smithers) came along as well. Kirsten amd I decided it would be fun to walk on a narrow dike type of thing, after which the incoming tide forced us to get wet pants.

Exploring Rotterdam for free! With a Rotterdam pass you can do a lot of activities either ondiscount or free. Here we went on a boat where they gave a tour of the habour. 

Boat life. The white bridge in the background is the Erasmus bridge, a famous landmark of Europe and quite ingeningenious if you look at the design.

I found out I graduated this past week!

Last night we also went for a walk, and we ended up in a park with  lots of rabbits. Maurits bet me a McKroquet burger from Mcdonalds that i couldnt catch one. So of course then I definitely had to catch one! So here we are, 10:30 at night eating a delicious dessert. Sorry rabbit!

After work relaxing in the sunshine

Eating kibbeling (deep fried fish) and strawberries at the Market

Another incredible sunset

Beach day and a Porsche

Lately we've been settling into a bit of a routine, which definitely still includes some unexpected last minute beach saturdays, some out of the blue sick days, some spur of the moment visits to friends, and an unexpected weekend with a porsche!

Maurits boss has a porsche (its pretty old but hey its still a porsche) and he asked him if he wants it for the weekend.  A very generous offer! So after hours of hemming and hawing (ok not even half a second) Maurits said sure! On the weekend we had no plans for saturday, so we decided to drive a few hours to a little town called Hoek van Holland. Its a really cute beach town. The weather was beautiful as well, making it a peaceful relaxing walk along the beach.

In 

the afternoon we had a treasure hunt type of  activity organized by the church. It is so good to get out and do stuff, and be able to say yes! to just about any random invite! It was also a great opportunity to get to know and have fun with other people from the church, which is always also a great experience. The people here are so welcoming, they truly are wonderful. I have a picture of the whole group but i cant download it so maybe next time i post i'll have figured out how to download it!

Through this all Maurits wasnt feeling so great.  He pushed through it without complaining, but I could tell he wasnt doing all that well. Anyway, Sunday afternoon we stayed home from church as he couldnt drive. We listened to an English sermon from Uncle Seve instead. Monday morning he started hyperventilating, with tinglig fingers that turned white, and finding it hard to breathe. As he couldnt drive I had to take him to the doctor. But he cant drive. And obviously couldn't bike, so there was nothing to do but to give me the car keys. So i drove the porsche actually only a few meters away to the doctors office. He now has some medication and us slowly recovering. But after coming out of the doctors office,we saw an old woman closely inspecting the car. I think she was a bit crazy in the head, anyways she was talking to herself and feeling the car. So i went up to her and i said, "excuse me, can ik u helpen?  This is my car." She looked at me, then looked at me again, then laughed scornfully and said "i dont think so". Well hello lady, why on earth would you think it wierd of a little 21 year old girl with a hunched over coughing boyfriend to have a porsche? Like, seriously. But she walked away anyways!

Monday and Tuesday Leeanne and Kirsten are here. So this morning we went shopping for dinner, and are planning on having a nice dinner and dessert ready for when Maurits and his mom get home. They were also here on Friday, so we took them for a tour.

Driving the Porsche topless so i had to lend my handsome a scarf.

The Oude Haven (old harbour)

Cubus houses

So theres a taste of our weekend! The week was spent mostly helping various people with English. It was a good week :)