Category: Mama
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Dutch Lock Down Day Forty Two
True to my word, I GISH’d today AND did Just One Thing ™ but in doing that one thing, I earned the team seventy EIGHT points. #FLEX And, although I can’t post the resulting video nor the result, I can tell you that it involved a five year old, scissors, and lots of JOY. But…
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Dutch Lock Down Day Forty
“I’ve been fairly consistent for two whole weeks (or is it a million years? #SameThing) of walking every single day and for the past few days, I’ve even been trying to walk TO THE BEAT.”
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Dutch Lock Down Day Thirty Eight
“There was also a SPEAR that went through the center from top through to stick out of the bottom.”
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Dutch Lock Down Day Thirty Five
“I mean, sure, I could be CHEEKY, BUTT that would be SHITTY and I don’t wanna be an ASSHOLE” #DoYaSmellWhatImSteppinIn
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Dutch Lock Down Day Nineteen
“Are you exhausted? I’m exhausted.”
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Dutch Lock Down Day Eighteen
“The silver linings are utterly precious and when we come across one, we stare at it, making it bigger than perhaps it is, because We Have To ™.”
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FYI – A Is The Oldest Child
There are always ‘puzzles’ and looming #ToDos on the horizon wearing us down and sticking in the back of the brain and it all boils down to not prioritizing it.
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Big Breath In. Big Breath Out. Repeat.
TL;DR my mother’s mother is on home hospice. My daughter is named after her. So I’m grabbing girl twin and running to the States to introduce them and say goodbye. It’s intense.
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And I’m Still A Bit Sick, If I’m Honest
So I’m totally back publishing this post to Tuesday, cause, DAMNIT, I was sick. And not just me – the entire family – all five of us – has a cold that’s just enough that on Monday after I went to the gym, I was literally falling down dizzy. YAY!
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Gather Round, Kiddies – Mama Has A BedTime Story
Once upon a time Papa had a wonderful opportunity to work in the Netherlands and Mama could work from anywhere in the world, so the Leander Family moved to Groningen.
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What Day Is It, Anyway?
We’re headed into the holiday week and I don’t know what’s going to happen – whether or not routines will be maintained or if publications will happen or if presents will be wrapped – anything’s possible.
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Navigating the Rush Hour
Back in the States, ‘rush hour’ refers to one of my favourite Jackie Chan movies as well as the hell that is a morning and evening commute to and from work made only slightly less miserable by the sweet soothing sounds of NPR while here in the Netherlands, rush hour TRAFFIC is so lame that…