by Clarissa | Jun 10, 2019 | dutch life, family, writing |
“Moving abroad with children” releases later this week, so here are some more details about what it covers! The first part of the book is an introduction, which begins with our story. Here it is: At eight months pregnant with our second child I came to the...
by Clarissa | Jun 3, 2019 | dutch life, family
I wrote a post awhile ago about all the things that I didn’t understand about living in the Netherlands, and as we’ve been here a bit longer now I thought I would write a complementary post on what I think are the best things about living here. These are...
by Clarissa | Mar 11, 2019 | dutch life, family, personal
Last week I had parent teacher meetings for both children. These were fifteen minute sessions with their teachers and without the children there. And we have these three times a year now – late autumn, early spring and before the summer holiday. Both of them are...
by Clarissa | Mar 4, 2019 | dutch life, libraries, personal |
One of the things about continuing to life in a different country is that I’m actively looking for new words. The children at school have activities in order to increase their vocabulary. But I need to work to keep developing mine, otherwise it’s too easy...
by Clarissa | Jan 14, 2019 | dutch life, family |
One of the joys of having children who speak two languages is watching them learn them both. Hearing them talk to each other in a mishmash of them. Helping them learn words that they only know in the other language. That they can teach you words that you...
by Clarissa | Sep 18, 2018 | dutch life, family, personal |
I missed writing yesterday because I knew that today was the day the Dutch government announced their budget. Normally I don’t bother with blogging about this, but this is not an ordinary year. This time the implications for us were very high. Now, the Dutch...
