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Moving to Sweden from the UK: Our moving logistics were a bit nuts :-D

by Mumonthebrink 9 Comments

Moving to Sweden from the England

For months I tried to pack and sort our lives while Dadonthebrink worked away during the week and some weekends. I found it impossible. I was tired and found lots of excuses to procrastinate due to my reluctance to move. The whole situation wasn’t  helped by my slower than expected recovery from my op and […]

Filed Under: Sweden, Travel Tagged With: Christmas, expat, expat life, family, moving, relocation, Sweden, Travel

Capturing memories in times of change

by Mumonthebrink 14 Comments

  How often do we just rush from one thing to the other to the other? At the moment, I’m trying to get my head around our new life: Dadonthebrink in Sweden, the rest of us home in England.  Sure he’s back on some weekends, but I miss having him here every day.  And the kids really […]

Filed Under: Home improvement, One corner at a time, Parenting Tagged With: family, family life, kitchen, memories, pictures, technology

Travel: returning to familiar places

by Mumonthebrink 1 Comment

Camping by the Lake Balaton Vadvirag kemping Balatonszemes Balatontourist

Travel is all about discovering new places, new experiences and new adventures… or is it? Can travel be about returning to the same place again and again and discovering more nuances about a place? Years ago, I remember being very surprised when a friend was going back to the same holiday park in Devon for […]

Filed Under: Camping, Camping and Caravanning, Campy Van, Europe, Family fun, Travel Tagged With: Balaton, Balatonlelle, Balatonszemes, camping, Campy, Campy life, childhoodunplugged, deli part, family, flying solo, holidays, Hungary, madventures, natural childhood, relaxing, Rudi Tanya, single parenting, southern shores, sunset

Motherhood Moments- Special time with my child

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magic motherhood moments

Motherhood is chaotic! Especially with more than one child. …or is it just me? Motherhood can be hard! Over the past weeks I’m realising, what others probably already know: It’s important to have one-on-one time with each child, even if it is just a couple of minutes a day. How I’m actually going to make […]

Filed Under: Moments, Parenting Tagged With: family, moments, motherhood, parenting, siblings

Oxfordshire children’s read-a-thon

by Mumonthebrink 17 Comments

Imagine a day set in and around a enchanting old manor house, where children literally step inside a story, track down and chase some of their favourite children’s book characters, spend a day of family fun with their favourite books coming to life .  Well, that’s just the idea behind the Oxfordshire Children’s Read-a-thon thanks […]

Filed Under: Books, Out and about, Oxford and around Tagged With: books, day out, family, family fun, literacy, Oxford and around

The magic of Lake Balaton

by Mumonthebrink 4 Comments

Over the past couple of years the Lake Balaton has crept into our hearts; It has a place in a small nook reserved for special family times. It is the first place the Littlins went sailing. It is the first place Max bathed in a natural body of water at just 9 weeks old.   It […]

Filed Under: Camping and Caravanning, Moments, Parenting, Travel Tagged With: Balaton, camping, family, family fun, fishing, moments, nature, sailing, swimming

Family rituals – a postcard from the past

by Mumonthebrink 2 Comments

The other day I caught a comment about sorting postcards from a blogger friend, Ali.  I completely misunderstood what she meant, thinking she was being super organised and bought and pre-wrote her Christmas cards in January (as she was putting all the Christmas paraphernalia away). She corrected me and told me about a lovely tradition […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Chistmas, family, traditions

Two weeks on…

by Mumonthebrink 2 Comments

. The original title of this post was one week on, but then another week past without me getting computer time to finish it. It’s amazing how quickly time flies and how moments last forever at the same time. Over the past week we have experienced both: The days just whizz past, yet I will […]

Filed Under: Mum on the brink's tips, Parenting Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, family

Grandparents- bridging the distance, language and culture

by Mumonthebrink 5 Comments

. A post by Nickie got me thinking of the Role of the Modern Grandparents and how different this can be depending on circumstances. So what does it mean being a multilingual European family living far from grandparents? How do our children experience that special bond? Yesterday we arrived to my in-laws’ in the Netherlands […]

Filed Under: Multilingual and multicultural, Parenting Tagged With: family, multilingual

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