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 | May 20, 2019 | family, personal |
It’s funny how time works. Days go by without you realising, and suddenly it’s nearly five years since we moved here. Nearly ten years since we got married, and we’ve spent nearly half of that time in the Netherlands. The children have both now spent...
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 28, 2019 | family, personal, writing
I have to put my hand up and admit that I love spreadsheets. I use them for all sorts of things: recording who we send Christmas cards to each year, managing our family finances, outlining my next book, planning the edits to the last one. They are such a useful tool...
