Chicago ‘My Kind of Town’

Chicago ‘My Kind of Town’

The weather is calmed down a bit and… Oh well…who am I kidding… Not really!! It’s still freezing over here! But the curiosity to discover more “North of the wall” (click here) is still there. My good friend offered me to show me the third largest city in the United States…Chicago, Illinois! The City where [...]

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

The Atlanta Silverbacks season is over and it's time for us to explore a new adventure and a new State. We drove with kid and cat through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois to eventually reach our destination... Wisconsin! The State of diary! Yeah... the first time I heard about this "adventure" I wasn't that thrilled [...]

How to survive motherhood in the USA…

How to survive motherhood in the USA…

Follow this link to read my story in Dutch / click deze link naar mijn verhaal in het Nederlands. http://www.moreplease.nl/2015/10/alles-over-hoe-je-als-nederlandse-moeder-overleeft-in-atlanta/ Credits story: http://www.moreplease.nl

Motherhood, WTF!

Motherhood, WTF!

You would think I have the luck that my daughter mingles 2 languages in her sentences, but for an unexplainable reason she always speaks perfectly clear English when we are in a public place. She can all of the sudden loudly pointing out some observation or repeats something I or someone else once told her. [...]

‘So what do you do’

‘So what do you do’

Even though I am super proud of who I am and what I do, I always try secretly to avoid the answer. The reason is… I am not just “a stay at home mom”. I get many people who respond with--- “Oh… so you are just a stay home mom"... They make it sound as [...]

‘Two Big Headlights’

‘Two Big Headlights’

We left New York with a bang and we will never forget our adventure in any way possible. We were in the middle of a process where we had to figure out if we wanted or had to go back to the Netherlands. This country brought us so much joy, so much love, and so [...]