My life as a mum

The girls will be in school for a couple more weeks but Summer is coming soon (here in Holland it is not officially Summer yet) and I thought it would be a nice idea to start thinking about what we are going to do this Summer.
So here is our Summer Bucket list for this year, so far.
I chose 20 things to put on the list.

1 Visit the beach




2 Go to an amusement park.
3 Have a barbeque.



4 Get small braids plaited.
5 Play with water balloons.
6 Have a water fest with watose er guns, water slide etc.
7 Have a picnic in the park



8 Do a karaoke night.
9 Go camping and make smores.





10 Make a yummy treat and a kids cocktail.
11 Make popsicles.






12 Fly a kite.
13 Make drawings with sidewalk chalk.
14 Dance in the rain.
15 Go to the movies.
16 Go swimming.



17 Grow flowers and veggies in our garden.



18 Go to a kids farm.
19 Go fruit picking.
20 Eat watermelon





What are your plans for the summer ?
I would love to hear from you.


Love,

I am a little tired today and I  had a headache earlier, so today I just want to share one of my favourite songs.
I really love to sing but mostly I love to worship God. It gives so much joy and nothing beats entering into His presence through worship. This is really one of those songs that makes it easy to do that. I really love both the melody, as well as the lyrics. I think the first time I heard it and loved it, it was the Romanian version of it, which I really love too.
This is a song which really lifts God up and encourages us to give Him what He deserves : all our praise and worship from the bottom of our heart.

Let everything that has breath praise Him with everything that's within him. He so deserves it !! 


Worthy of it all



I hope that you are blessed through this song.

Love and blessings,

The topic for the BEDM challenge yesterday was ;lists. I thought that it would be nice to make a wish list of things that I would like to get. So today I will  be sharing a few things that would be on my wish list.





1 A dish washer
For some reason I don’t really prioritize doing my dishes lately. They are mostly left to do last. It also seems to take ages to do the dishes by hand. A dishwasher would be so handy. It would really save so much time. Plus my sink is currently clogged. I would not have that problem if I'd have a dishwasher.
2  A bicycle
I know walking is a good way to exercise but lately I am really longing to have a bicycle. When we have a little further to go here on Ijburg, I usually let the smallies go by bike. So they don’t always have to walk, but I still do. It is not very handy either, especially when the girls decide to go ahead of me, like today. I was already tired so I did not run after them, but a concerned lady apparently was waiting with them before th…

When the warm weather started, I promised the smallies to get them flip flops. Since we mostly shop at H &M, we looked online and the girls decided that they both wanted the flip flops with a cute butterfly on them and -you can guess it- a bunny and a cat on them.

I realised this month that Nevaeh really did not have that many clothes and from the ones that she does have, a couple of them are stained, damaged or too small/ tight. She really has grown a lot. There is only a small difference in height between her and Yovannah and this means that more and more they are seen as twins now.  Both her and Yovannah didn't really have shoes for church or to wear with skirts and dresses either. They would normally wear boots or rain boots with their dresses. Only Nevaeh had gotten some other shoes for her birthday. So I decided since we are getting some extra money this month, to take the girls to H & M to get the flipflops, one of the 4,99 dresses, a 4,99 t-shirt and a pair of shoe…

I am not a fashionista but I do like nice clothes a lot. If you've seen  my last What I wore Wednesday post, you have probably realized that I don't buy new clothes really often. I really own a lot of second hand clothes. Some bought, some of them I got for free.

I don't really wear high heels a lot. But I do have one pair that I wear to church on most Sundays.
Since I really can't walk on really high spike heels, these are kind of 'block heels',so I can walk on them without any problems. I can't have them on for very long though, when I have to stand or walk a lot. They really start to hurt very terribily after some time.

I do love high heels though. They look nice and feminine. And I think with some outfits they would really fit nicely. The other day I had a lace top on and I thought that it would be nice to wear it with heels. And I also thought that it would be nice to try and practise walking on heels.
I searched online and it got me so excited. All of…

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 …