Modern family

It's one of those things I dread the most: my washing machine breaking down. Because with five teenagers in the house, there's always a lot of laundry waiting to get done. And if I so much as slack off for óne day, that laundry immediately will start to grow, and grow and grow. Until it...

I have an induction stove. Before our move to the country we had a gas stove. I still miss my gas stove a lot! I liked to cook 'on fire'. Though I have to admit, induction has a lot of the advantages of gas stoves. But the gas stove felt more authentic to me. Oh, light my fire! You...

I always wear A-line skirts.  Ever since Trinny and Susannah recommended it for pearshaped women in their show What no to wear. A-line skirts skim right over bulges and bumps, and kindly hide them. But my skirts are getting old, and they're not in fashion. Which makes it hard to replace them. So when I...

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...

'Know your numbers!' isn't that what they say? So I decided to get to know my cholesterol number. But now that we're acquainted, I can honestly say I don't like it very much. This is one test I would rather have a low score on. But I got a whopping 7.9. It seems that when...

It's our family tradition do decorate our (fake) Christmas tree on the second Sunday of December. In the picture above you can see my two remaining children decorating our tree! The other three children have flown the nest, but will be returning for Christmas day. Christmas tree decorating We discovered you can easily place nativity...