Category: Mama
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Thx, Twins
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Fifty Five] Last night’s complete lack of sleep is thanks to Girl Twin using the “I feel sick” as her only weapon, she spent the night in our bed while P attempted to sleep in other places around the house but totally failing and I finally got her back…
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Were You Born That Way?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty] Deborah Siegel, gender scholar and mother of boy/girl twins, brings to life key research about the gendering of childhood in the earliest years of life. Taking us through a personal journey peppered with blunders and epiphanies, she challenges us to move beyond pink and blue and learn something…
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How Is It Only Tuesday?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Thirty Four] Yesterday felt like one of the longest in the world – a single twenty four hour period lasted days and days – mostly because all three children were home in the morning and only one managed to get into emergency daycare for the afternoon. We are so…
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Due To Ice, Everything Is Closed
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Thirty Three] This time it’s not just school, but also daycares, at least until one o’clock. Help! But first the news: Dutch hospitals studying Covid vaccines effectiveness in cancer patients Schools, Covid test centers closed due to weather alarm How to understand and integrate into Dutch society during a…
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I’m Doing Okay, I Swear
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Twenty One] Mostly. No one’s throwing up. Or otherwise sick. But. The construction in our house has gone up a few notches and suddenly there’s four construction workers for two days in a row now and while we’ve got a kitchen with a new stove, microwave / oven, and…
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“But I Feel Sick”
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Nineteen] “But I have stomach pain.” The twins have figured out how to lie. By saying they’re sick. When they don’t want to do something. Touche, Universe. But first the news: Curfew will be lifted if positive tests continue to decline: NOS Petition to only open schools after teachers…
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Not So Much Hope As A Train Light
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventeen] I spoke too soon? Cause last night. About an hour after going to bed. Boy Twin puked everywhere. All I could do was laugh. But first the news: Dutch primary schools may be able to open in February, prime minister says Number of vaccination sites in the Netherlands…
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Theories And Experiments Around Illness
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Sixteen] In the midst of COVID and such, is Not Exactly The Time for figuring things out, but I think I figured out Girl Twin’s mysterious illness – and based on my one day experiment, I was right. Maybe. And, also, I think I figured out why my temp…
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And The Universe Laughed AGAIN
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Fifteen] Cause Girl Twin came home sick from daycare this morning. And then she was fine. Happy and more energetic than ever. And then I got a minor fever. And then it went away. But first the news: Health boards ignored coronavirus IT system privacy concerns: RTL Average Covid…
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I Don’t Actually Want To Say Anything, But…
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Fourteen] No one in this house has been sick for 48 hours. #KnockOnWood Dear Universe:Please don’t punish me for this post.xoxo,~R. But first the news: Tuesday night passes relatively peacefully after appeals for calm Outbreak of South African Covid strain; 18 infections in Gorinchem Third of workers want companies…
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And Then Papa Was Sick
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Thirteen] But that was yesterday and he seems to be infinitely better today. Not walk through icy weather recovered, but, still, much better today. Let’s… just… wait and see what’s next, shall we? But first the news: Riot police called out across the Netherlands as trouble flares for third…