Spider arts and crafts

Do you know the movie Serendipity? It's all about the idea that if something is meant to be, it will happen. This week I encountered my own kind of serendipity. Here's what happened. Serendipity Two weeks ago I was walking around this thrift store when I spotted this really ugly garden gnome. Some might even...

  'Into each life some rain must fall,' sung Ella Fitzgerald. And indeed, there's no way around it: there will be times in your life when the going gets tough and you must weather stormy times. The best thing to do, I've learned is to just lean in. Don't fight it. That's the best way...

I was taking my son Piet for his swimming lessons for the umpteenth time, feeling numb with boredom, when he suddenly said: 'Daddy is very naughty!' 'Oh yeah?' I said distractedly, because I was busy feeling sorry for myself. 'Daddy uses lots of naught words' 'Yes, daddy uses lots of naughty words when the other...

My youngest daughter had to do a special assignment for school. She had to re enact the image of Amor and Psyche. And it came out beautifully! The original The reenactment My son helped them with the wings, by photoshopping them in later. The girls had made real wings, but they were too big to...

Country life can be quite idyllic. The silence, the views, nature.... However,  there's one thing I definitely don't appreciate about life in the country, and that's flies. Pesky flies who take up residence on my bare legs, while I'm trying to read a book. Or while I'm having my daily cup of coffee. Because during...

A song keeps playing in my head: 'Where's the love?' Indeed, where ís the love?! And is there enough of it going around? So busy with living Sometimes I'm so busy living, keeping the kids from killing themselves and each other, I forget about the love. It's hard to feel the love when they walk...