In this category you’ll find everything that doesn’t belong in another category 😉 Everything about my life as a mom of Liv, wife of Denny and all the brain waves I have. If I have time 🙂

CHRISTMAS WITHOUT LIES?

So the Dutch title of the blog is actually different. It’s about our tradition which is called: Sinterklaas. We celebrate this on the 5th of December. There is a guy with a white beard on a white horse who is …

40 YEARS OLD

Today is my birthday. I never celebrate my birthday. I don’t like throwing birthday parties nor going to them haha (anyone with me?), but I turned 40… 40. 40 years old. It still needs to sink in. When I was …

4 YEARS OLD

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 …

AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

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 …

Go for adventure? Play it safe?

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. …

Top 9 – 2018

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 …

3 years old

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! …

2 years old

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 …

Dear Liv..

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. …

Keepsake for first baby clothes

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 …

Reusable babywipes | Cheeky wipes

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 …