I’m over at A Day in the Life of a Drama Queen’s Momma today with my post “The Great Poodini“! Check it out – and check out The Drama Queen’s Momma on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Bloglovin’! Follow Live by Surprise on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Pinterest and Continue Reading
Some of you may have read my tribute to Apollo in the spring and my struggles with how to prepare the children for his passing. We had him put down this morning, it was very quite and peaceful. I’m struggling and sad, and worried about Hubs and about how the childrenContinue Reading
Well…it’s been a nice run. I’ve been very lucky to have a kind employer who was willing to allow me over one year unpaid leave after the birth of my third child. Two summers home with my kids. For the first time ever, a whole year to wait at theContinue Reading
What better day to post this than Labor Day? My ovaries are aching. They have been for a few weeks. I have three beautiful children. Three. I am one of the moms in North America who is keeping the “average” family size above 1.4 kids. Three children is considered aContinue Reading
I’ve always felt that if you’re going to go to Europe, not only do you have to immerse yourself in the culture, eat all the wonderful food – but you also have to absorb the history. And the best way to do that is to visit historical places. With thisContinue Reading
A pannenkoek or pannekoek is a Dutch style of pancake – one that you absolutely must partake of if you ever visit the Netherlands. Pannekoeken are traditionally much larger (up to a foot in diameter), and thinner than they are in the good old U-S of A. Not just that,Continue Reading
This week, my sister in law volunteered to babysit so Hubs and I could do some adult type activities in Amsterdam. We rode our bikes into the train station again, but missed the first train by two minutes (luckily they come every half hour). We hadn’t purchased our tickets inContinue Reading
This week we went to the mall in Lelystad, Holland – it’s an outdoor mall called Batavia Stad Fashion Outlet. There are a lot of high end stores at the mall. So far, it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to an American mall. It was a contemporary town square thoughContinue Reading
I’ve always been an out of the box thinker. If there’s a way to solve the problem that no one else has thought of, I’ll be the one who comes up with it. When I was about five, my 13 year old cousin had a Rubik’s Cube. He switched itContinue Reading
We rode our bikes to the train station and caught the train to Amsterdam on our fifth day in the Netherlands. My in-laws live about an hour outside of the city. It was an overcast day, but the rain held off until we went home. When we arrived, the trainContinue Reading
