Mum's are the best

Hello you guys :)
Have you had a good weekend so far? I certainly hope so since mine has been pretty awesome so far.

My mum came to Augsburg, for some work stuff she has to do here, on Thursday and will stay till tomorrow evening.
She was busy all Thursday but came to pick me up from work in the evening. Now I haven't seen my mum for almost 2 months, since taking the train home is pretty expensive so as you can imagine I was really excited for her to come visit me. 

And there is 3 really great things about my mum coming to visit:

1. She always brings me a little prezzie and also she always brings some sort of cake that my nana made. This time she brought me marshmallows which I'm a huge fan of. But they weren't just marshmallows no they were massive. 
My mum actually always spends quite some time to think about what she could bring me and last time I was home I burned my lip whilst trying to eat a grilled marshmallow (you can read the whole story here) because they were really small and the fork we used to grill them was very hot :D 
So my mum bought me bigger ones so I could grill them safely next time, she is the best. And to show you just how big they are compared to normal ones I put them next to a lemon.

And yes they are bigger then the lemon and I can honestly say that it is not possible to eat more then one :D

So thank you mum I love what you got me :)

2. Whenever my mum is here we always eat very well. On Thursday night we made some salad with salmon and a yogurt dressing and last night we went out for dinner as I have already told you in my previous post. And we don't only go out for dinner we also go out for lunch simply because we both really enjoy food. 
The other great thing is that I don't have to pay for anything we eat. She always insists on paying her argument being that I let her sleep at my place so she saves money on a hotel room that she can then spend on going out for dinner :D I mean who would reason with that, right? You are not gonna hear complaints about this from me mum :)

3. We go shopping and she just randomly decides that I need new clothes that she has to pay for. Now this always happens and don't get me wrong I'm not saying I don't like it. I mean how out of my mind would I have to be to ever say that ? haha 
It just happened again today. She was a little cold because it wasn't as warm as we had expected it to be. So we went into a shop to buy her a cardigan since we were both to lazy to go back to my place and get one :) 
We ended up buying way more then 'just' a cardigan and I did not pay for a single thing... well I only got a dark green jumper but I didn't really need anything. And we might go and do some more shopping later on actually because we have a summer sale on at the moment.

I feel like young people don't say this enough - I'm really grateful for my parents, and I love them so much. 😘
— Troye Sivan (@troyesivan) July 1, 2013

Yes all of the things above are great but they are not actually the reason I love my mum. 
I love my mum because I feel like she has really showed me how to get through life. I feel confident that I can handle what comes my way because she thought me. 
She has been there for me every step of the way and will continue to do so even if I think I don't need her anymore.
My mum has provided me with so many amazing opportunities in life like going to New Zealand for a year. Spending 3 weeks in Yorkshire when I was 14 to improve my English just because I wanted to do so. Paying for my flat I live in since I'm not able to do so alone as a student and a lot of other things like travels and stuff. 
Now I don't take these things for granted but I just feel like I don't tell her that often enough. 
I know that whatever I do my mum will be there on the sideline cheering for me which is something I am more then grateful for. 
She is a truly amazing person and a great role model. I learned from her that you have to make yourself happy before you can even think about making others happy. 
When I was younger I always thought my mum didn't like the person I was because she used to criticise me a lot but I came to realise that she tried to prevent me from making the same mistakes she did. 
Mum I love you for trying but I got my pighead from you so what makes you think I would ever listen? :) 
And I have to make my own mistakes and I know that it might be hard to watch me hurt because I made the same stupid mistake. 
I feel so connected to my mum and we are so much alike much unlike my sister. Sometimes I think they switched her at birth:D
She has said some things to our mum that probably hurt me more then my mum because I just couldn't understand how my sister could say that to such an amazing person like our mum. And because I'm very sensible about things like that, sometimes a little too much I guess.

I truly love my mum and wouldn't wanna change a thing about my upbringing. I'm pretty sure she did a great job with me. With both me and my sister actually. 
And if I manage to raise my kids they way she and teach them as much as she did me I will be more then happy. 

So I love you mum!!! Thanks for being awesome and inspiring.

And if you haven't told your mum that you love her today: Do so it will be very much appreciated :)

x
J.

Home sweet Home

I don't know why but everytime I go home I'm so excited and after being home for about 1 day I already have enough. Does that happen to you aswell? You get super excited about something and then it just fades as soon as you finally have it? I almost feel bad about it.

This just keeps happening to me whenever I go home. That doesn't mean I don't love seeing my family but I just don't seem to fit in anymore it's weird.

Having one day with them is enough for me to catch up and see them again and after that I just miss my flatmates. The place where I grew up is not home for me anymore. I grew up there and I still enjoy coming back but home is with my friends and my flatmates now. I consider this new town I live in home but this little village still means a lot to me and will most certainly always be a part of me. I mean I grew up here how couldn't it be but I kinda outgrew it.m

Back when I was younger this little village used to be enough for me but now it's just so small at least for me.

Like my sister would come back every other weekend and hang out here but even if I could afford that ( she lives closer to where we grew up then I do) I still don't think I would do it. Okay lets be honest I'm sure I wouldn't do it. I just don't need it that much. I call my mum every now and then and that's fine, that's all we need. And when I'm here we go out for a drink and catch up. We are really close even though we don't see each other all the time. I would even say that I'm this close with my mum because I don't see her that much. Maybe I enjoy the moments we do have together more or maybe it is just the fact that this way she doesn't get enough time to go all crazy on me. And by crazy I mean all that annoying stuff that mums do which I'm pretty sure everyone knows lol. If not can we switch mums?

Just kidding my mum is the best. Growing up she used to let me do all kinds of crazy things and just always said that I had to make my own mistakes and that she couldn't stop me from getting hurt most of the time anyways. She could just warn me about things but whether I did them or not would always be up to me. And if I did get hurt she was there for me and I never once heard my mum say: I told you so. So she was pretty amazing but back then I didn't really know that but know I have really come to appreciate all the things my mum has done for me. For example my mum stop driving me around when I was 12 and told me that all the place I couldn't get to with my two legs, a bus, a train or my bike I didn't have to go to. Obviously at that time I thought she was the crulest mum every but it tought me that I could figure things out myself. That I didn't need my mum to organise everything for me or to drive me around, I learned that I was capable of doing that myself. And all the times where she would still pick me up somewhere meant a lot to me. I figured out that my mum wasn't my taxi and that she had other things to do then driving me and my sister around. One thing that is probably worth mentioning is the fact that I live in a small village and there is a lot of busses and stuff and most of the walking distances aren't to bad either. So I really was fine on my own. And if I wanted to go out at night my dad would come with his bike and pick me up although I'm pretty sure that nothing would have happened if I would have gone home by myself.

My mum always tried to raise us so we would be able to live our own lifes when the time to move out came. And it might sound harsh but my mum told us that if we would go to university we had to move out. She would not let us live with her anymore because she wanted some time without kids even if that meant that she had to pay for our flat and everything else. So that is exactly what we did: move out and she is paying for our rent now. Cause as a student your not really able to pay for everything by yourself. That's just how it is.

My mum has always supported us with our decisions even if they were completely bonkers :D And if that was the case we would just laugh about it afterwards together :)

So I am pretty thankful for everything my mum did and still is doing. She is amazing and I don't think I tell her that often enough.

So everyone go to your mum give her a hug and tell her you love her because she deserves to know that.

x

J.

Family

My family is awesome but I guess a lot of people say that about their family. Well mine also is a little bit crazy but that's just the way I like them :) Most of my life a have lived about 250 km away from one of my cousins and she is such an amazing friend. She probably is the best friend I have I can tell her anything. Yeah so we have lived quite far away from each other for 20 years and then last year when I moved to go to University we ended up only living a 45 minutes train ride away from each other whcih is awesome. We now try to meet up at least once a month which we don't always get to do cause she is very busy and I'm aswell but today was one of the days where we managed to do it.
So I hopped on the train around lunchtime and we went to a little restaurant called 'Schall und Rauch' and it's a lovely little place. They have really good food and a big variety aswell. So we enjoyed our lunch and then headed to Starbucks for coffee, cause who doesn't love a good Starbucks?
 
And the silly and crazy people we are: that's what happened :D

I mean eating a mufinn the normal way:  booooring :D
So as you can see we had a good time at Starbucks and a lot of fun even though the other customer probably thought I was some crazy person... But who cares what other people think?

After that I had to go home but not before we found a little store in the train station and just had to play with their toys. It was crack up especially this one:

Hope you could laugh about it too :D

Have a good night everyone

x
J.