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 […]
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Capturing memories in times of change
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 […]
Travel: returning to familiar places
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 […]
Motherhood Moments- Special time with my child
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 […]
Oxfordshire children’s read-a-thon
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 […]
The magic of Lake Balaton
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 […]
Family rituals – a postcard from the past
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 […]
Two weeks on…
. 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 […]
Grandparents- bridging the distance, language and culture
. 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 […]