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  • QnA with Rain: Dutch Xmas

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Sixty One] Friend: “Hey.. You Doing OK?” Rain: “It was first xmas here so I was solidly wrapped up until tomorrow.” First of all, no, 06 December is not ACTUAL Dutch Xmas, it’s SinterKlaas which I call Dutch Xmas when talking to nonDutch people cause it’s easier to convey…

  • Some Rules Are Meant To Be Broken Sometimes

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifty Eight] You absolutely may not run into the street without looking both ways. And you may not cross the street without holding a grown-up’s hand. And you absolutely must not panic and break all those rules when you see a spider the size of your FACE. GIRL TWIN.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Now Where Is My Turkey?

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Fifty Two] Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia, and the sub-national entities Leiden, Norfolk Island, and the inhabited territories of the United States. It began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Also Not a Good Alarm Clock

    Can I go back to sleep now?

  • I’ll Stop Talking About This Morning Thing Soon

    [Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Sixty Seven] Sorry for being difficult, P.

  • #OhGodWhatHaveIDone

    [Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Sixty Six] My chameleon brain REALLY did not want to get up this morning.

  • Not Exactly What I Had In Mind

    [Dutch Lock Down Day One Hundred Sixty Four] Along Came a Spider