There's just so much you can do on the internet nowadays. Like dumping someone. 'Kirk dumped Stephanie today by email,' my thirteen old daughter told me. And she added: 'That's the third time she got dumped by email already.' I smelled a great parenting opportunity to teach them some high morals, so I said: 'That's...
With four older siblings I could see my youngest son struggling to find his niche. My eldest daughter's niche is easy: her niche is simply Being The Eldest. Then comes my son Jan, who's a bit different because he's got a diagnosis of PDD-NOS. So that's his niche taken care off. After that comes my...
When I first became a mom I liked to dress my baby in 'real' clothes. So I put my baby girl in little dresses, and when I had a boy I dressed him in little trousers with suspenders. But when I had my youngest son, eight years after I had my first child, I dressed...
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Yesterday I put up our Chrismas tree, and decorated it with my youngest son en daughter. The other three were too busy doing other stuff. How do you like our tree?! Artificial Christmas tree for peace on earth, and peace of my mind! When the kids were smaller we invested in an artificial Christmas tree,...
For years my kids nagged me for a pet. And I never wavered! I always told them: 'No.' I just didn't want the hassle of a pet. Not after fínally having managed to raise my kids to the level I could safely take my eyes off of them without them getting into trouble. But then...
'What's in my bag' is een meme where you show the contents of your bag. After my very deep analysis of The Very Hungry Caterpillar I feel it's time for some light relief so I decided to share the contents of my bag with you. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by the contents...
We were having dinner, and I was bored senseless waiting for my seventeen year old daughter to finally clear her plate. But what's a parent to do?! You're supposed to teach your kids to stay at the table until everybody's finished, so I was held hostage by my own parenting etiquette. This meant I was...
'Rrrring!' our doorbell keeps on ringing. Ignoring it is useless, because they'll just ring it again. And again. And Again. And if I stíll don't come to the door, they'll just park their finger on it and keep it there. This time it turned out to one of the neighbourhood kids, looking up at me...
Isn't friendship lovely? Pity it's a bit onesided. The frog kept trying to get away, but every time he did our cat Rumpelstiltskin, put his paw on him as if to say: 'If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me. Uh uh uh uh no baby please don't go?!' Ever...
