My mother turned eighty two weeks ago and we celebrated that today with our family. My brother and his partner had already given my mother a chair for her birthday, and we (my family of three) gave her today the Tarot of Prague. I had left it in the package, remembering how special it was to see the stamps of Prague and the Magical-Realist logo on ( Read more... )

Yesterday (until this morning) was the third day of the birthday celebration of our daugther who turned eleven. It ended with a pyama party for her friends. Highlight was a ghost hunt. The children went out in Heerenveen by night with assignments. The hunt started in the church. They had to walk through the church towards a candle, the only light ( Read more... )

For the first time in the life of our almost eleven years old daughter we invited our families to visit us for her birthday on one day.


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Since my birthday is coming up I pulled a card to give me an image of my past year. I received the Moon from the Tarot of Jane Austen. Depicted is Emma, from the book Emma, anxious that she is might be not able to marry Mr. Knightley, the man she loves. Initially I was not happy with the card, because I remembered all my fears from the past year, ( Read more... )

I have got a painful, thick and blue middle-finger. It was pressed between a doorknob and a wall. Last week was demanding for me. I made two visits of more than a day to my mother in order to help her (broken her wrist, bad back due to a fall). On one of those visits I took a sick child with me. This was all too much for me, I lost my wits, and ( Read more... )

Today I was totally involved in the Swan Lake Ballet, because that was the theme of my daughters’ 10th birthday party we were having today.


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Sometimes a card brings out one's worst fears. Often I am afraid that I do not give enough attention to my daughter. That is because I can be very single-minded when I work on a project, tending to forget everything around me.


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