My life as a mum

Today I wanted to do a Happies and Crappies post about things that were very okay lately and things that have not been okay.

Happies.

The bouncy castle has arrived. After more than 1,5 years the girls finally have access to the bouncy castle again. My mum was so kind to post it to us from Suriname where we spent two months and where we had left it for the time being. We only have not been able to use it yet. Mainly because the blower has an Irish plug so I need a special plug adapter to be able to use it here in the Netherlands. I tried to find it here in Ijburg today but I've not yet been succesful in finding it. So the girls will have to wait a little bit longer before they can jump on it again.

After spending the whole weekend without a bank card, yesterday evening it finally turned up.
I knew that I had left it on the table on Thursday afternoon but it was not there in the evening. Later that day the smallies had been playing close to the table with a big box which they had loa…

Today I am not feeling very fit so I wanted to do an easy , fun post. I used to love doing Sunday Social posts which you might have seen on my blog before. Unfortunately, the Sunday Social link up stopped after a few years but I found one of them online and I have decided to base this post on some of the questions from that Social Sunday. I am using a few of them and I'm adding some of my own.
Name 4 jobs you’ve had in your life. Cashier at a supermarket, administrative worker, assistant manager of a clothing shop, billing clerk.
Name 4 tv series that you would like to watch all over again Felicity, One Tree Hill, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break
Name 4 places where you have lived Tilburg (Netherlands), Paramaribo (Suriname) , Dublin (Ireland) , Amsterdam( Netherlands)


Name 4 of your favorite foods Saouto soup, teloh (fried casava) with fish (Both Surinamese- Indonesian), chow mein (Surinamese- Chinese ) and hot chicken wings from KFC or the Chinese version.
Name 4 places where you …

It is going to be Yovannahs birthday soon. She is going to be 7 on 6 June. She has been talking about it for months. It is unbelievable how much birthdays mean for little girls. They always look so much forward to it. I ‘ve always tried to make an effort to give them a nice memorable day too. Because I don’t want to take for granted that God has added another year to their life. Some people unfortunately don’t get the chance to see their child get older and so I want to celebrate their life every year again. And it is always nice for the chidren to feel special on their special day.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to give them a lot of parties. But I always still try to do something small and special like going to Mc Donalds, the movies or swimming, just the girls and I. And I usually have some balloons and decorations up and a cake Especially Yovannah has not had a lot of parties. She has had two small parties so far with about 2- 4 friends and then her sisters. So it would be n…

I have not been doing much of the original topics from the BEDM challenge so far, because I had other posts or because I had nothing to write regarding the topic of the day. But since I am living in Europe I thought it would be nice to do a post about it. Only I thought that it was for today and not yesterday. So I actually missed it. L  But I decided to do a Europe related post anyway.
One of my favourite things from living in Holland again, would be that I can get my hands on a bag of liquorice much easier . When I was living in Ireland I really missed liquorice and when a friend would go to the Netherlands for a holiday I would always ask them to bring me back some liquorice. I would be sooo happy when I finally got to eat some liquorice again. I remember once missing it so much that I bought a little bag of liquorice online for 5 euro and then to find out that they were soft and salty ones.  Those definitely were not my favourite but I guess it was better than nothing at all.
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