{"id":539,"date":"2006-11-06T19:19:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/539"},"modified":"2006-11-06T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T17:21:47","slug":"thoughts-on-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/539","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dreary<\/a>Well winter is slowly creeping in here in the Netherlands.   The leaves are falling, the days are becoming shorter and the sun’s appearances are getting more few and far between.<\/p>\n

Any day now noon time will start looking like this photo, which was taken out my livingroom window at 11am on a December morning a few years ago.<\/p>\n

I’m nervous.   I’m yet to have a winter here in NL where I didn’t slip into a funk due to the dreary weather.  Over the past few years my winter months were plagued with depression.  Partly because of the weather but also because of homesickness and the mounting disappointment that came along with Project Baby<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

I think this winter will be different though.   For the first time in years trying to have a baby isn’t a part of our lives.  That alone will make a big difference in how I feel over the coming months.   During the last few years I haven’t been on any medication to help me with the depression because of trying to get pregnant..this year I am taking medication again.  Hopefully that will help level me out as well.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been trying to get into old hobbies again, crafting and doing things like quilting.  I’ve joined a great group for expat women in Holland which has gotten me out and made me more social.<\/p>\n

I’m also going to finally invest in one of those sun lamps.  Not the type like in a tanning bed, but one that imitates the sun’s light.  You sit in front of it and it’s supposed to lighten your mood and ease the winter depression.   I find it hard to believe that sitting in front of a lamp can bring about the same feeling as the sun, but I’m willing to try it.   When the sun comes out here in the spring I literally can feel myself recharging.   I know that probably sounds completely bizarre but when I feel the sun on my face something inside me changes and it feels wonderful.   <\/p>\n

If a lamp can give me that feeling, I’ll like… hump it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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