by Clarissa | Dec 18, 2016 | family |
It struck me when the children and I were decorating our Christmas tree that every decoration is a memory of Christmases past. Especially as I try to make at least one decoration to keep each year. Our tree has a heavenly host of angels (grouped together at the top...
by Clarissa | Jan 25, 2016 | family
Last year I created a series of activities for the children to do every day of Sinterklaas and advent. And this year we did the same, so here is a list of what we did as I’m trying to catch up with all the things I want to blog about: Sunday Nov 15th – go...
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,...
