Easter weekend

We had a great Easter weekend. Friday the children and I decorated the eggs - great fun! It's interesting to see the differences between the children: Micha (7) paints very precise with different colours. Ezra (5) painted only with dark blue (all his eggs were completely covered with blue...) and Noah (almost 2) put more effort in decorating the egg holder than the egg and believed that was the intention of it all... They all had fun - so me too.


Saterday we went to a country estate with a castle for a walk. The children enjoyed playing at a little stream. Great to stand still to observe natures colours and shapes, hearing the sound of wind through the trees, and smelling the fragrance of spring...

My friend

While my life is so hard at the moment
and I am in circumstances of despair
While it feels like my soul is bound to the ground

I don't have to say anything, cause you hear my thoughts
I don't have to search for you, cause when I turn around, I realise you were already there
And while my dreams are scattered,
you are dreaming for me

Time for Spring!

In the centre of the little town that I live is a very old shop. It's actually the oldest shop of town! It's a shop where they still sell lot's of stuff that you can't find anywhere else. I have the priviledge of working there... 4 days a week.
One of the things I do is changing the shop window every season. Last week I changed everything to the 'spring' theme - hopefully Spring won't keep us waiting too long now...
If you want to watch a nice video about the little shop - click on the links (unfortunately only in Dutch) part 1 and part 2.
The video makes me proud of working there!

Bleu envelopes...

When I came home today I found to my great horror two big blue envelopes... -tax returns to fill out- anóther thing added to my plate...
But -what a great surprise- as I opened one of the envelopes it exploded and lot's of beautiful butterflies flew in my face - and NO tax returns AT ALL!!! Wow!!!!


...I wish it was true...

Chased by wolves

Yesterday my three boys and I went to a local forest for a walk. It seems like every time we do so, we end up being chased by wolves, bears or other creatures. You can see at our face how scared we were...
Always a great adventure with the kids - I love it!!