I could be friends with this mom! I really could!
I've always felt that the start of the new school year deserves as much fireworks on Times Square as the new 'regular' year. Both are the start of something new. Right now it's that time of year again: the kids are going back to school! And many a mom gets teary eyed. But not all...
'Guess who this is?' my eldest daugher said, and looked around with the frightened look of a rabbit caught in the headlights of a really big van. 'Mommy, when she goes out to visit someone!' I gritted my teeth, but the fun wasn't over yet. 'Wait, I'll do another one!' And this is mommy after...
Who says the career path of a stay-at-home-mom is a dead end dirt track?! I stand here before you, a proud women, because I have just reached the status of Santa Clause! New status! 'Do you know how much I love you mommy?' my youngest son asked. 'Just as much as I love Santa Clause!'...
'You can't outrun the long arm of the law!' Kenny Rogers warned, but how far do the arms, and influence of a mom reach? After lots of struggling and hitting each other with different research results, psychologists finally agree: a child's development is equally determined by parenting, environment and genetics. Yet as a mom I...
Even though sometimes I miss seeing my daughter in the flesh, after she moved from the Netherlands to England there are also some perks! Like having Mother's Day twice. Why I get to celebrate Mother's Day twice In the Netherlands Mother's Day is celebrated somewhere in the month of May. But in the UK the...
My husband's parenting powers lack a certain shall we say, prowess? When he shouts: 'Okay kids, time for bed!' they pay him no heed. And when he orders them to clean up their room, they vanish into thin air. Mom Power: use it sparingly I usually pretend I don't see. Because how else is he...
