Rock bottom

Now that the kids are home áll the time during Summer Vacation my life has become utter bliss. I've fallen in love with my children all over again. We spend all our time together playing games of Monopoly, and not ónce do we fight about who gets to use the piece of the little doggy...

My son Piet (6) was bobbing up and down in the bath tub, his older brother Ot (9) sitting at his feet. Whatcha doin'? Ot was moving his hands in the air above Piets body, and I was very much intrigued. Was my son perhaps the next Harry Potter?! So I asked curiously: 'Whatcha doing,...

Sounds that require immediate action on your part: The scraping sound of a kitchen chair, pushed across the kitchen floor. The rustling sound of candy, secretively being unwrapped. A door that is closed ever so gently. But above all, these words: 'Mom, I'm not doing anything!' So if you'll excuse me!

'Mom, I need a haircut,' my eldest son Jan who's sixteen told me. He's been sporting this terrible 'emo hairdo' which looks like some toddler took a pair of scissors to it. I still can't believe I actually had to páy the hair dresser to get it looking like that... Why don't you let your...

Every Monday night my husband and I like to watch Grey's Anatomy together. This medical drama premiered in 2005 and is still going strong! There's lots of drama, romance and also parenting in Grey's Anatomy. I especially like the parenting stuff because it can be quite insightful, and sometimes downright funny. Mothers have a life...