My personal art collection: Early Primitives

- I am but a shadow of myself - Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm supposed to enjoy having my kids around aaaaall the time. But you know what? I don't. Much as I love them, sometimes I just need some time by myself. Without constant interruptions.  Just me, myself and I.

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,...

I often read blogs about decluttering. But there's one area that is sadly neglected when it comes to decluttering, and that is the keychain! At a certain, unfortunate point in time, my keychain carried: my house key the key to my bike a key to our back door a key I didn't know, so I...

Suddenly I felt this rush of youthful playfulnes which made me decide to 'surprise' my eldest son Jan. Silently I made my way to his room... Barefoot I made my way to his room, finding the door mercifully open, and silently slid inside. Jan was engrossed in killing off some kind of unpleasant demon on...

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 can't stress this enough: 'The best way to get in touch with me is with email.' Blabbering fool He or she who feels the need to pick up a phone and call me, will not catch me at my best. The necessity to reply instantly and adequately stumps me, and leaves me a blabbering...