by Clarissa | Jun 11, 2018 | family, food |
Meal planning is a tool that I couldn’t live without. Having structure to what I make for dinner for the week and month makes it so much easier to decide what to eat, shop and cook dinner. I’ve written an introduction to the meal planning method I use, as...
by Clarissa | Jun 4, 2018 | dutch life, family |
Last week rocket boy took part in the local avondvierdaagse. This is four days of early evening walking – either 5km or 10km every night. Parents have to go along too, so I did two nights and my husband should have done the other two. But he only did one in the...
by Clarissa | May 31, 2018 | dutch life, family, food |
The last few weeks have been glorious here, and (a few thunderstorms aside) we’ve had temperatures in the top twenties nearly all month. And as we have been fairly relaxed at the weekends – spending most of them at home – we have been enjoying BBQs....
by Clarissa | May 28, 2018 | family |
The children love drawing and cutting and sticking and making things. Which is great; I love that they are so creative, and I try to give them freedom to do the things they want. We use alot of paper – every month our paper recycling bin is full to overflowing,...
by Clarissa | May 22, 2018 | dutch life, family
The sun is out here in the Netherlands – we are enjoying some beautiful warm weather, even over a bank holiday weekend! And with the sun and spending more time outside comes warnings of ticks. These are small insects that live in grasslands and can bite you....
by Clarissa | May 18, 2018 | family, personal |
My Mum gave me some hexagons that she’d paper pieced years ago and had then been sitting in a cupboard since then. Today I took them out of my cupboard and started playing around with different patterns and designs. In the end all I managed to sew together was...
