I was in the kitchen peeling the potatoes when suddenly I heard this loud wailing. It was my son Ot, giving a heart wrenching solo, while cradling his left arm like a beloved newborn. So I opened the kitchen window and shouted: ‘What happened, what happened?!’ Piet hit Ot with a stick! ‘Piet hit Ot…
Woof before her surgery. She still had two ears. Is there anyone kind enough to offer a home to this endearing little cat? Her name is That Stupid Cat, but she also listens to Much Too Expensive and Woof. My daughter bought a Furreal cat My daughter Teuntje bought her for 50 bucks, and took…
Kids… They’re a lot like a box of chocolates. Like Forrest Gump said: ‘You never know what you’re gonna get.’ Even though I would like to be That Mom who always gets it right. I usually get it quite wrong… Bowling or McDonalds In our family we have instituted the tradition that the birthday boy…
Did I tell my kids about the birds and the bees? ‘Now did I, or did I nót, tell the kids all about the birds and the bees?’ I often wonder. But because my kids ask a lot of questions, usually when I’m trying to enjoy my meal, I decide: ‘I’m sure I did!’ I…
Life with my son Ot who is ten, is like an endless game of poker: who has the best pokerface, and who will fold first? Take dinner for instance. Ot will start the game Ot will start the game by saying: ‘Yuck, I don’t like it. I won’t eat this!’ And then I will say:…
‘Mommy, I puked!’ I heard my son Ot shout, a mixture of triumph and excitement in his voice.‘Alrighty then. Will you go and clean it up?’ I shouted back, and had myself another sip of tea.‘Daddy is much nicer,’ my seventeen year olds daughter suddenly declared in a quiet tone of voice. ‘Daddy cleans up…
My son Piet (6) has set his sights on a waveboard, which is a bit like a skateboard, only much more difficult. We’ll rent one first ‘We’ll go and rent one first,’ I told him ‘cause I’m frugal that way. ‘But it’s probably not for rent mommy,’ Piet whined. ‘Well that would be your bad…
When you play your trump card, and things don’t turn out the way you planned, there’s nothing else to do but to try and save face. Insufficient evidence So in the matter of the mystery of the Stolen Bonbons I find that there is insufficient evidence to try and convict anybody. The perp has not…
When we moved to the countryside I finally gave in, and we got two cats. Four years later we even got a little dog. But for many years, I firmly put my foot down when it came to pets. In 2011 I wrote this post about it. Mean Mom Syndrome For years now, I’ve been…
‘Who’s cheating who,’ sang Charly McClain. That’s exactly what I wondered when my 11 year old son told me he found out Santa Clause was just another case of the Tooth Fairy when he was 8. ‘I just didn’t tell you, because I wanted to get my presents,’ he explained. So all that time we…
