A day in our home in the French countryside

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Bonjour. I don't think I have ever filmed a day in the life and I thought I'd take you with me on just an average day here at my farmhouse in France. This morning I had to make breakfast for our guests and then afterwards I like to take a moment for myself to have my tea. The mornings are starting to get chilly. But this is such a beautiful time of the year. So I'm enjoying this moment just watching nature and listening to the silence. But then I am forcing and motivating myself to do my workout. I do not like working out, but I have had to since my early 20s after an injury. So, I've always done weightlifting. I kind of stopped doing that when we moved to France almost 7 years ago now because I wanted to focus on building our life here and getting my kids settled, but I started to have trouble getting up when I was painting a piece of furniture and starting to feel a little bit like an old woman. So, I picked my routine back up, but I I don't know. I was starting to feel a little bored doing the same thing four or five times a week. I want to just find new routines. And I found them on Get HealthyU TV, who are also the sponsor of today's video. Getalthy TV offers workouts by certified fitness professionals for all levels focused on cardio, building strength, or increasing mobility. And what I really loved is that many of the workouts are inspired by ballet and dance. And they also have yoga and pilates workouts, which is exactly what I was looking for to complement the strength workouts that I already do myself. And I also find their workout calendars really helpful. I'm currently working through the 30 for30 calendar which is a schedule of 30 days 30 minutes a day which feels totally doable and it has a large variety of different exercises and workouts and the very much needed rest days are also in there. So this helps me to not have to think about anything just look at my calendar every day and see what I need to be doing. Members also get access to a Facebook group where you can share your experience and ask questions. If you feel inspired to work on your health, Get Healthy UTV is making it super easy for you now to do so because the first thousand of my subscribers to click the link in the video description will get a full year of premium membership to get HealthyUT TV for only $149. This is valid for new members only. You will find the link in my description box. After my workout and shower, it's time for lunch. So, Olaf is taking a break and I am preparing whatever we have on hand. I usually really like to eat lots of eggs. I so love eggs. So, I'm making an omeolet with some herbs and zucchini from the garden. Next up, time to work on my book. As you may know, I am working on two new books. One about French interiors and the second is a second cookbook. And I'll be zooming in way more on the delicacies of Burgundy and the specific traditions around wine and gastronomy in the area where I live, which is Burgundy. I'm having lots of wonderful meetings with different brands that are very well known here in Burgundy and I'm just taking my time to do them justice and talk about them and write beautiful articles alongside all the recipes of course that I'm working on and am including in this new book. It is scheduled to come out in hopefully the spring of 2026. I'm never going to get the book finished, you guys. Um, I also received a parcel in the mail to stock up on our shampoos, soaps, scented candles, room sprays, and all the good stuff that we have and use in the cottage and the cabin. I actually ordered a hand cream this time for the first time. I thought it would look so nice to have the little soap and then have the hand cream next to it. We haven't had it in the cabin and cottage so far. I got inspired to do this as I'm noticing I need more hand cream with aging. It's one of those things, but it just looks so luxurious. And I'm also going to put this in our new bedroom, which Olaf is still spending all his time on to create our new bedroom and bathroom. And I also gifted myself these lovely bath salts that are going to be for my baths that I cannot wait to be having in the coming fall and winter months. Now, it's time for a little coffee break. You know how much I love my coffee and milk. I can't have cow's milk in my coffee. That upsets my stomach. So, I am taking my wonderful oat milk. I use my milk frother to make the most wonderful foam. This is such a treat to me. These coffees, I don't do any syrups or sugar or anything. I don't need any of that. Just good coffee and good oat milk. The thing is, in this area though, where I live, it is incredibly difficult to find places where I can get plant-based milk in my coffee. I don't think it's a thing here. Yes, when I go to Djon, they'll have it, but here in Bon, there's only one place, but tonight I am going to the opening of a new cafe here in Bon. I've got to know Charlotte last year. She's half English, half French, and she's opening Cafe Mette in Boone. This is probably the only place I know in Boone where you can come any time of the day, have a wonderful coffee. Yes. With oat milk if you want and have like a brownie or carrot cake or a little snack or an avocado toast. All the things I love. Bone tends to be very traditional in what the restaurants and cafes offer. So I am going to start prepping dinner for tonight so that I can leave for this festive opening of Cafe Mette. And then when I come home, we just need to warm everything up. Like I said, Olaf is still putting all of his time in creating and finishing our bedroom. So then he doesn't need to worry about that. We just heat it up tonight when I come back home and then we will have a lovely home-cooked dinner. Although all the recipes in my first book were vegetarian, we are actually not vegetarian here at home. We do eat meat, but not a lot. And I'm always looking for alternatives, tasty alternatives. Today I am making a quinoa burger. I'm just making this with what I have in my fridge. And I also got a question recently from somebody about my skillets and pans that I use. So I like to use the lus style pans. So the enameled cast iron for pasta sauces or other sauces, soups, risotos, whenever I can, I use those. I also have green pans. It's just a skillet with it does have an anti-adhesive film, but it's not Teflon. I do not want to use that. And but they you use them like you would use a regular non-stick pan. I think when you start to use cast iron or steel pans like I have, you need to know how to use them so things don't stick. So, you just need to make sure you heat it up really, really hot until when you drop some water in it. It shouldn't evaporate, but it should have this little water drop dancing in your pan is what they say. That's when you know that the pan is hot enough. Then you turn the heat down and then you put your oil in and then you cook or fry whatever you need to be making today. So I am going to finish up here and then get headed to Bone for the opening of Miet. Back home, it is time for dinner with the family. And my evening is going to be all dedicated to my new book. I have recently discovered a new French author. Her name is Midisa D Costa. She's quite young still, but she's already written so many beautiful novels. Her first bestseller was Tul and it's been translated into so many languages. I think the English version is called All the Blue of the Sky. I found this when I was in the Netherlands actually with my parents. I found it in a bookstore there. I spent one day just full-time reading because I couldn't put it down and I'm now reading another one of her beautiful books. If you can get your hands on a copy, you should definitely try and read one of her beautiful books, Melissa Dosta. And that concludes my day in the life. Thank you for spending my day with me today. I hope you've enjoyed this video and I will be back with a new one very soon.