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PLEAAAAASE!!

Trying to teach the 3-year-old to say please and thank you is backfiring…

For the Autumn half term holiday, we went to a family friendly hotel in Willingen, Germany which is a four-hour drive from our house in Brussels. We left the day after the girls had participated in a Halloween trick or treat parade round our neighbourhood (so the three-year-old had had sweets for the first timeContinue reading “Willingen”

Peach

I recently put together all the cartoons I’ve done featuring my second child (her nickname is Peach) and had them printed out as a book on smartphotos.be. I tried reading it to her, but she doesn’t yet seem to like it!

First day of school

My baby is growing up! I don’t know which of us cried more at her first drop off, Isabel or me. (In Belgium they start school at age 2 and half which just seems impossibly young)

Alarm clock

Friends

Our youngest daughter has been more clingy with me than usual since starting school..

Isabel’s 3rd birthday

We celebrated Isabel’s third birthday at our friends house in the Hague last weekend. They have a nearly three year old too and the girls got on very well, which was so sweet to see. Also the Hague is lovely (although way more cars than I was expecting for a place which has such greatContinue reading “Isabel’s 3rd birthday”

It’s not the lights, it’s the flights..

I don’t know how much of it is wilful ignorance and how much is actual ignorance, but many people I know are in complete denial about how bad flying is. They are the kind of people who would say they ‘believe’ in climate change and want to do their bit for the environment, but willContinue reading “It’s not the lights, it’s the flights..”

Sharing

Sharing has never been either of my daughter’s strong point, but this was a really low moment. Max and Maxine only lasted a couple of weeks and are now forgotten, but I still get asked to find invisible hamsters. Luckily I seem to be better at it than I was before.

Center Parcs

In May we went to Center Parcs in De Haan, Belgium for the long weekend and it was quite possibly the worst holiday we’ve ever been on. To start with I got the dates of our trip wrong, so we spent the entirety of Thursday morning packing up the car while the girls got steadilyContinue reading “Center Parcs”