School starts when you turn 4 years old in the Netherlands | Is this mandatory? Lots of people know it’s not mandatory to send your child to school when he or she turns 4. Still most of the parents do (choose to?) send their children to school. Why? And what would be a reason not …
The photo in Toronto is an eyesore, but will always remember us of our great trip 😉 Dear Liv, I don’t know how many people always say: time flies! But, really: time flies! The first and the second year went fast, but that was nothing compared to this year. Going from 3 years old to …
And what are YOU going to do? Are you going back to photography? These are for sure the most asked questions lately. Not only to me, but also to my friends and family. So here we go! There is not short answer (well and everybody who knows me or has been following me knows that …
Go for adventure? Play it safe? — BEWARE: long story 😉 Choosing between these two questions is hard! Denny has always been a person of playing it safe (before I met him). Since we have been together this has shifted. First, because I am the opposite. I have mostly done what I wanted and liked, …
Sorry I haven’t translated this blog in English. I hope you like the photos 🙂 De top 9 van 2018 Elk jaar kan je aan het einde van het jaar je “top 9 van Instagram” delen. Oftewel, je 9 ge-like-te foto’s. Dit is het eerste jaar dat ik echt actief was op Instagram. Ik heb …
Dear Liv, It’s going to be a tradition: a letter for your birthday. I just read the letters from your first and second year. Now the third year is ready to start and we will celebrate this in Toronto, Canada! Last year I wrote: “if it’s up to you, we could travel full time. And …
Dearest Liv, Last year I also wrote you a letter, and I ended it with “hopefully the second year will not fly by so quickly.” Unfortunately the second year flew past MUCH faster than the first one! I blinked, and there you were: singing, dancing, chatting, laughing, tantrum-ing ;-), like a ‘real’ little girl. With …
Dear Liv, On this day exactly one year ago I knew it wouldn’t be very long until we met you. You had made a little hole in my (your?) amniotic sac, and I had lots of regular Braxton Hicks contractions. In the early hours of the morning I went downstairs and listened to the song …
A keepsake for first baby clothes During one of the many, many night-time nursing sessions, I looked at my baby and thought: she’s getting so big already! Newborn clothes didn’t fit her any more, and the next size up wouldn’t fit for much longer. Exactly what everyone had told me, of course. I hadn’t bought …
Reusable babywipes Last month in the Netherlands an article comparing baby wipes was published by a well-known product testing website. The results shocked me. I already knew that baby wipes contained a lot of less than desirable ingredients, but there is more junk in them than I thought! I truly hadn’t realised… We’ve used reusable …