Tag: epic

  • Getting Started: Embrace Your Inner Child

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Sixty Four] On the road to becoming a unicorn, you need to go backwards to make progress. I know what you’re thinking right now, “do I want to be a unicorn?” Of course you do. And now you’re thinking, “but my inner child is pretty messed up…” Fair. Mine,…

  • Really Moving Back to the States

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Thirty Six] This morning I have practiced my Dutch by filling out the Lijst van Zaken (list of stuff we’re taking or leaving or is up for debate) and the Vragenlijst Over de Woning (questions about the house) and have quite a few things planned this weekend to prep…

  • Posts

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Thirty Five] A friend reached out the other day, “Hey, you still managing? Haven’t seen a blog post in a bit. Not that I cyber stalk you or anything.” And they’re right. I’m not okay. This whole OMG WE’RE MOVING TO AMERICA IN AUGUST thing is really running me…

  • The Officially Official Big News Is!

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Twenty Four] We’re definitely moving back to the States. We don’t know timing yet. Or location. But it’s no longer a question of IF but a question of WHEN and WHERE. #SQUEEE #SOBS #INORITE This is incredible news for some and devastating news for others and simultaneously exciting and…

  • Leander

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Twenty One] I know I know – so so sorry. #NotSorry It’s a really intense time over here in #LeanderLand these days. And, yeah, still not time for the big reveal, but in the midst of all the chaos, my partner is flying to the States for work. For…

  • Big News Today!

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Seventeen] That I still can’t share but now I have an actual for realsies real date. I know. Super vague. #SorryNotSorry But first the news: Positive coronavirus tests dip below 6,000, but no change in weekly average RIVM picks new leadership team for Covid vaccine program Dutch government yet…

  • Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Forty

    [First! Vlog! EVER!! !] I didn’t actually think I’d get this published today. #OhYeOfLittleFaith

  • Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Thirty Four

    [Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut] Did you know we’re about to send another rocket to Mars? @NASAPersevere #CountdownToMARS #NASAsPerseverance #OMGOMGOMG

  • Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Eight

    [Oh, OW] Around the end of May 2018 this site was hacked and since I had poured my heart and soul into it and had six month old baby twins and NO BACKUP, I let it go. Sort of. I rebuilt the site, started writing again and kept… stopping. Cause MAN that hurt to be…

  • Adventures in Pregnancy: The Obvious Conclusion

    This story. This event. This thing. THIS HAPPENING. It was big. HUUUUGE. It was fucking awesome cause that’s when the twins arrived and they kicked much ass and it’s taken me all this time, I thought, because the story was really hard. But, why? Why was it really hard to tell? Because I kept waiting…

  • Adventures in Pregnancy: The Final Chapter

    …is coming. I have been in the hospital since Wednesday and, YES, Georg Ulrik and Linnea Genevieve are HERE. On this planet. On 30 November 2017. #HOLYSHIT

  • Adventures in Pregnancy: The Swiss Chards

    We’re actually not QUITE swiss chards – we’re actually thirty-six and six days – solidly at the end of romaine lettuces, but we’re jumping ahead of schedule cause…. *DRUMROLL, PLEASE* We’re inducing tomorrow. In TEN hours. ADBFKNJZBJKNZB.NJZSI.LS/L ZNL DZI;G ;ZD GN ZDN BZ Z SG L!! !