Category: Mama
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Happy THIRD Birthday, Twins
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifty Six] You two are SO BIG! I can’t believe that we induced three years ago yesterday and then you were BORN. Forty. Five. Minutes. Apart. By the way, twins don’t normally do that – there are a LOT of twins born via Cesarean, and, typically, when twins are…
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And This Is Black Friday
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifty Three] Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of the United States Christmas shopping season since 1952. And, yeah, it’s even here in the…
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I Can Haz Sleep?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifty One] For seven days, sure, I was ruminating every night because of that whole small claims court thing, but then on Monday night ALL THREE KIDS woke up in the night for Entirely Separate Reasons which required attention and for BOTH Papa AND Mama to wake up and…
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What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving, Leander?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifty] Planning the twins’ birthday. We celebrated Thanksgiving MAYBE twice before the kids arrived, once after First Minion arrived and not at all since the twins arrived three years ago on 30 November. Which is fine – it wasn’t really our jam before we moved over here anyway except…
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Twenty Six] The first year we moved here I found out very early on that Halloween is not a thing here in the Netherlands and so I arranged a Zombie Pub Crawl. We ended up with five pubs involved, starting at one that was large, bright, and quiet enough…
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“How Was Your Weekend?”
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Twenty One] “I have a SIX year old!” I repeated that exchange quite a bit – apparently I’m super chuffed. But first the news: All eyes on Tuesday, as coronavirus cases may be leveling off No new coronavirus measures expected tomorrow: Reports Dutch government to warn ‘draconian measures’ may…
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Happy Sixth Birthday, First Minion
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Twenty] You came early. I went in for a regular weekly checkup on a Wednesday, my blood pressure was too high and I was asked to come in that Friday. My blood pressure was still too high, but, good news, you were thirty seven weeks along, so you could…
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COVID Test Result Is Negative
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Eighteen] Alternative Title: How to Return Your Under Four Year Olds to Daycare Once They’ve Been Kicked Out Because of the COVID Rules For those of you who have been following along at home, the result of my covid test on Tuesday is negative. The twins got to see…
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Oh, Hey, I’m Getting the COVID Test Tomorrow
[Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifteen] The twins have had a cough for ten days. And a runny nose. Nothing else. But first the news: Slight drop in coronavirus cases in last 24 hours, more patients in hospital More coronavirus patients caused a 20 percent cut in non-Covid care Teachers want stricter coronavirus measures,…
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There Was SO MUCH Blood
I’m oke. Everyone in the house is oke. But not everyone in the house WAS oke.
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Are You Pregnant?
[Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Eighty Seven] *cough*
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Damnit, Back Up Alarm Clock
[Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Seventy Nine] When the snooze button is a furry purring cat, it’s okay to take another minute before embracing the day.