by Clarissa | Jan 19, 2015 | dutch life, family
It’s amazing to watch my son learning Dutch, as he’s just integrating it into his speech. Every so often he asks what the Dutch is for something we’re talking about, which can be quite tricky as I don’t always know! But he’s also using...
by Clarissa | Dec 31, 2014 | dutch life, family
Well this has been a big year for us: a new baby and not just moving house, but moving country. Considering how frustrated we were with trying to move in the UK in 2013 I can’t really believe how easy it was to move here. Everything really seemed to fall into...
by Clarissa | Dec 25, 2014 | dutch life, family
This year Christmas has been different for quite a few reasons: we’re now a family of four; we’re living in the Netherlands; but primarily because this is the first year that we’ve been at home, rather than visiting either my parents or my in-laws....
by Clarissa | Dec 25, 2014 | family
One thing that I made a few years ago was these small advent stockings, and building on ideas that I’d spotted last year (mainly the kindness elves at imagination tree) I set up a series of activities to do every day leading up to Christmas. I also made a few...
by Clarissa | Dec 17, 2014 | dutch life, family
It’s quite fun to learn nursery rhymes in a different language – it makes you appreciate the differences 🙂 as well as the difficulties of translating what are essentially poems/songs! Some differences I’ve noticed: – Little sheep, little sheep,...
