The above photo is from 29 August 2024, the start of the 20th!!!! year here at Face The Day - so it's time for another major Face the Day Flashback! Below you can go backward in time with us. Though we don't keep the blog up to date anymore, it's really fun for us to be able to at least get a photo on or around the 30th of August every year. We’re trying to face our changing faces head-on! It’s a bit confronting as we do see the differences each year – but oh well, love thyself and all… It's still me, me, me - or rather us, us, us world here at Face the Day - but just once a year thankfully :-). We are proud (and ashamed) that we were taking selfies already way back in 2005. We were daily, selfie queens.
What a year it has been! As for Sarah, after a year of being a foster family to Farhad, she and Tom have recently gotten to see him reunite with his family here in Kortrijk and move into their own rented home together, after being separated when feeling Afghanistan in 2021. It's been a very intense process but worth every second and Farhad and hi family are now part f our extended family. In health news, Sarah has had freaking whooping cough (kinkhoest) since April!!! She's also been in pre-menopause for almost a year, full of hourly hot flashes and other fun symptoms :-(. Needless to say, she's certainly feeling older this year, with less energy than ever. She looks forward to getting her energy back soon, hopefully! It's now also the first time in so long with no kids in the house, so Sarah needs her stamina back so she can take advantage of all the newfound free time she has and go out and about and do fun things!
As for Heidi, her kids have grown even more, with her daughter finishing middle school and even running for the local green (Groen) party in the upcoming elections. Her daughter is about to start university and will live at home for a while still and her son will start a new middle school soon. Heidi is still changing her hair all the time and seeing what she can and can't eat (without hurting her stomach). She's hurt her leg and toe in the past few months, which has gotten in the way of her running, so she feels like she's a slightly different shape than usual :). He piano and music reading skills get better ad better each year and she's a busy bee as usual.
Both Sarah and Heidi are tired today. Work is kicking their asses and, let's face it, they are getting older! Life is good, sometimes great, sometimes totally great - and they can't complain - but sometimes, like today, which wasn't great for either of them, they can really, really complain. That's life - and they're still laughing and having a load of fun together.
See you next year - the 20th one here - be prepared for a Face the Day extravaganza!!
The above photo is from 30 August 2023, the start of the 19th!!!! year here at Face The Day and just after Sarah and Heidi had had Covid, Sarah had gotten permanent eyeliner and a new job and Heidi's kids and plants were growing like crazy! Check out what was going on last year at this time here!
The above photo is from 31 August 2022, the start of the 18th!!!! The sun wasn't shining and was going down too early. But we're still standing and smiling.
The above photo is from 31 August 2020, the start of the 16th!!!! year here at Face The Day - and the first Coronavirus year at Face the Day - so much so that we had to stand 1.5m from each other then. What a crazy year it was and continued to be - and still is now!
In 2014, we changed to pictures with no glasses (above) for the first time (see below) to really be able to track our aging over the years. We still plan to go for 50 more at least! Here's a link to our 2014 post.
The photo above is also from 01 September 2014! Our last glasses pic.
The above photo was on 30 August 2013.
There we are above 11 years ago on 30 August 2009 starting our 5th year at Face the Day with Heidi and Sarah! We may not keep it up as much as we did in the past as life has changed a lot for both of us but we do our best to update it now and then. Via this link you can go back to that day 11 years ago with us!
There we are 12 years ago on 29 August 2008 looking fresh and alive! Via this link you can see what we were up to back then. Life was very different. So much has changed!
And there we are 13 years ago on 30 August 2007 looking short-haired and not that great! Use this link to check back to what was happening with us 13 years ago.
And there we are above 14 years ago on 30 August 2006 looking pregnant (heidi) and fat (me). Via this link you can see more about that day 14 years ago in our lives!
And there we are on our first day of this particular blog, 16 years ago!!!!! on 30 August 2005 right after our other one that we had started in April 2005 got hacked and disappeared! We looked younger but we both think we look as good or even better today! Via this link you can see exactly where and how Face The Day with Heidi and Sarah began 16 full years ago in 2005!!! Now we can have flashbacks that will include 17 photos from the consecutive years every time!
