My life as a mum

One of the things that I don't like about being (a) (reasonably new) single (mum) is that you have to do everything yourself and/or on your own. I guess that is why a lot of things still have not been done in my house. That and the lack of a savings account. But seriously, I don't even have my curtains hanging the way they should. And I guess I would have had that done, if there was a man living here in the house or if someone would have showed me how.
I counted on my mum -who used to be a single mum at some time too and who to me seemed to be able to do just anything and who was here in the Netherlands on a holiday a few months ago- to teach me how to be an independent single mum and direct me in how to hang up my blinds but unfortunately it didn't happen. My blinds are still in the same plastic packaging as they have been for a couple of months now. They are now waiting for me to make an appointment with a 'handy man' who then also will do some painting in my hou…

I decided to finally do a What I wore Wednesday post again.
I will be sharing two outfits that I've had on over the last days in which I have been doing the 30 day challenge of wearing dresses and skirts. Read about it here .

When I was in Ireland I used to love going to the carboot sale to pick up cheap stuff and I often shopped there for clothes.

I got the dress that I am wearing in the picture below, on the carboot sale together with two different dresses for 1 euro. I did not wear it for ages but since I don't have a lot of dresses and skirts and I am trying to do this challenge, I had to give it a try.
It is really short, so I always wear it with pants. I chose black dress pants since they seemed the best match. The top from the dress is from t-shirt material and the dress is more cotton- like but very soft and it has pockets. The colours are dark-blue and white.
I also bought the brown jack on the carboot sale but it was new and so I paid about 8 euro for it.
It is made …

Today’s topic of the BEDM challenge is wanderlust/travel.
I thought it would be a nice opportunity to write about Romania. The first time that I visited Romania, was 16 years ago when I went there on a mission trip as part of a team of five people. We traveled for 5 days from Holland to Romania, sleeping in parking lots in a camper and a truck. It was a whole adventure. We had a huge truck of goods with us and our goal was to bless people from the gypsy villages with goods and to minister to them through singing, preaching and prayer and also to encourage the local church in bringing the gospel to the gypsy’s as well. It was a very special experience, standing on a big field with people, preaching, being translated by a translator, experiencing the presence of God. It was great to be used by God, seeing people get saved and encouraging the youth in going out to bring the gospel. Glory to God !! God filled me with a compassion for the people of Romania and told me that I’d had to go b…

Today I'm sharing a few moments from our past week again through another Hello Monday post.

Hello Monday

Hello Pony Buddies in 'extremely' hot weather.

As I mentioned in another post, the smallies started a course called 'Pony Buddies'. They started last Wednesday and it was really very hot in the sun that day.
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Hello sandpit and glide at the kids farm.





Hello bunny !!



Hello recycle project at school.




Hello Picnic in the garden.



Hello to Ixora catching some sun while she is eating.





Hello to making some yummy mini muffins !







Hello grocery shopping with separate trolleys.





Hello water with mint.

I am really trying to drink more water now (one of my goals for May) and I am adding some mint to give it some flavour.




Hello Mickey, what are you doing there ?

My silly girlies...put you in there.....didn't they ? hahaha




Hello new week, we hope that you will bring us a lot of good things,....and good times !



I hope that you enjoyed this Hello Monday post and that you are h…

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…

Something seems to be wrong with my charger so I almost did not post today but by Gods grace my laptop managed to get charged a little bit. I already intended to use a post that I wrote last year in December for today so I am not making a lot of changes to it but I will post it mostly as I wrote it down back then. It was a few days before Sinterklaas, which is a holiday that is really, really big here in Holland. It is unbelievable how much attention it gets and the girls got really hyped up and we had an overload of activities in the period of Sinterklaas. The smallies really believed that Sinterklaas and his petes were kind of real and they had gotten some gift cards and I went online with them to choose gifts that were in the amount of the gift cards. And so on this day I went to the shop to buy the gifts that had been chosen. I was so glad that it worked to select gifts online with Yovannah because she first had set her mind on a much more expensive gift (Her teacher told her we…