I think magazines are a lot like cars: they loose their value very fast. A car loses half its worth as soon as you drive it around the corner. A magazine loses its worth as soon as you've read the last page. Books are a better investment Books on the other hand, are a much...
I love open windows, and I love welcoming fresh air into our house. No artificial airconditioning for me! I'm going all natural. Bird in da house! Unfortunately with so many windows and doors open, it's not only the fresh air that gets in. Birds mistake our house for the sky, and fly inside. Once inside...
Moving house turns out to be a great way to get some much needed appreciation pré-posthumously! My two youngest sons came home from their last day at school, wearing white t-shirts that carried the names of all their classmates. Real tearjerker But the real tearjerker turned out be this little booklet the class had made...
The life of an accident-prone teen is a struggle. Reminiscent of a bull in a china shop, your teen falls, trips, knocks over and runs into things on a daily basis. Let’s just say teens are far from graceful. Every day, you wonder where they got it — it certainly wasn’t from you. If your...
You know those songs that get stuck in your head, and no matter how hard you try to get rid of them they just won't leave you alone? I suffered from just that phenomenon, while we were heading for a visit to my parents in law. Amazing grace stuck in my head 'I keep hearing...
I went to pick up my two youngest sons from a playdate, and there on the dining roomtable, lay the remnants of a game of Monopoly. Four players There'd obviously been four players, and judging from the different piles of money one of them was rich enough to buy the White House, and the second...
I was walking through the aisles of our local Walmart, looking for things I didn't know I needed, when I crossed paths with a German family. You can look, but please don't touch! The mom was totally engrossed in all the merchandise, leaving the dad to do the parenting. As they walked by lots of...
My son Piet (6) was bobbing up and down in the bath tub, his older brother Ot (9) sitting at his feet. Whatcha doin'? Ot was moving his hands in the air above Piets body, and I was very much intrigued. Was my son perhaps the next Harry Potter?! So I asked curiously: 'Whatcha doing,...
Look what I found at the local thrift shop: This great dress only cost me 7 bucks! It has got everything I like in a dress: flowers, it's bright and happy and it's comfortable. The only possible drawback is that my sister, the one who is getting married, thinks it's a bit too loud... What...
My youngest sister is getting married in May. My other sister and me will be her maids of honor. Red jersey dress with polkadots not fancy enough? So now I have to figure out what I'm going to wear. I don't want to spend a lot of money. So I bought myself this red jersey...
