Politically incorrect motherhood
I could be friends with this mom! I really could!
I could be friends with this mom! I really could!
'How can I miss you if you won't go away,' Eldon Hunt wondered, and I belted along in total agreement. Now that the kids have finally left for school, I can feel how much I miss them in the blissful silence of an empty house. Suddenly I remember how much I love them, as I...
When my children were little they often had more fun with the boxes than the actual toys. Turns out, boxes are fun even when they're teenagers! Playing with boxes : ) These pictures are bittersweet These pictures are bittersweet. Because the box contained a really big suitcase. My daughter (the one in the red pants)...
A mom's journey is filled with boobytraps and bad jokes. For example: Do you know the one about the mom who went to the toystore, to get her child the toy said child had whined about for months? When she got home, her kid didn't like it. Hahahaha. And do you know the joke about...
Last week my eldest son turned 18. And I wanted to give him something special. Something he can look at when he's 80 and say: 'This is what my parents gave me when I turned eighteen. Isn't it lovely?' But what do you give to an 18 year old boy who's main interest is computer...
My eldest daughter, Maartje, had been talking about it for months: 'Mommy, when New Moon is released we'll go and see it, won't we?' Flattered that my fourteen year old daughter still wanted to be seen with me at the movies I readily replied: 'Of course we will.' For those few who háven't heard about...
I kept reading reviews of Caitlin Morans book How to Be a Woman. How to be a woman, is an autobiography of Caitlin Moran's life, and it's a book about feminine stuff you encounter as a woman. So when I wandered through the library, and I saw it standing there on a shelf, I jumped...