Think of this any day!

Starting the day with this

Lucille Ball was considered to be too shy ...

The Beatles were turned down cause guitar music was on the way out ...

Michael Jordan was cut from the high school basketball team ... went home and cried

Thomas Edison was said to be too stupid to learn anything ...

Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper cause he lacked imagination and original ideas ...

Abraham Lincoln failed in business, had a nervous breakdown, was defeated in 8 elections ...

If you have never failed, you have never lived ... LIFE = RISK

Good to start any day !

My brain!

So, my brain is working overtime again. Every now and then I have an idea and it's something that I MUST do! (because I want too).
I have had so much idea's in the last couple years, well I think whole my life!
I wanted to start painting and I would buy everything that has to do with it. My husband also bought me some stuff. Off course I did something with it.... for two weeks... and then it was over. I found something new, I wanted to bake cakes. You know the really pretty ones, that you see in a bakkery or online. Ok, it started when we where planning our wedding, I saw much really nice, pretty, funny wedding cakes! I thought to myself "I can do that too"! Trust me, I cannot! I'm to impatient so that didn't work also.
I wanted to make all my one clothes, well you can guess it by now. I made a few things and then I was ready.

But I always liked computers and most of all software. It's my job, so I have to like it. But now I'm in a new fase, I want a new thing. I want to learn how to design website's. Yes, I started already, but boy it's harder then I thought. I hope I wil keep on going now, because I think this is a keeper.
Well I will found out in a few weeks or months, because I gave myself time to learn.

I hope my brain stays with me this time and doesn't leave me in the cold!

Nicknames and more....

Well there are a lot off nick names that I give to my children. I'm not suppose to say them in public but sometimes it just comes out. I can tell you at that point my children are not so happy with me.
As you know I come from Holland and some nick names you just cannot translate into English, but maybe it's funny for you to try to pronounce it.


When I'm in a cuddly and/ or happy mood I say to my children;

Atteke
Moppeke
cuty pie (I know it's stupid)
Sunshine
Big boy
Big girl
Little cute girl or
Little cute boy



When I'm in a angry mood I say to my children;
You´re not funny
I don't like you at this point
I really try not to call them names (but sometimes it just blurs out, yes I'm sorry I confess)


I think every mother has a certain name for her child, but when I see a movie they always have a really special name. Sometimes I wonder if the scriptwriters thought off that in a minute ore they had to think for days. I don't have a special name, but I have cute nicknames (ok, I find I give them cute nicknames.)

And you do you give your children special nicknames?

Big family

When I met my husband it turned out that he had a big family. He has 5 brothers and 3 sisters. I only have 1 sister, but a lot off cousins. I saw them not that often any more, but my husbands family I saw every week.

In first year when we met, it turned out he had two cousins who loved to sleep with us. His brother was divorced and he had his daughters every other weekend. In those weekend they always slept one night at our house. We didn't have children's yet so I had to get use to it. Most off the time we did the mattress in the living room, we made popcorn, had drinks and we watched some movies. I remember that I found it soooo very irritating that she always asked questions about the movie.....

At the time our first child was born, they still wanted to sleep over. The oldest cousin turned out to be a real mommy (she was six year old) and looked over our son.  I remember when our son just learned how to walk she was always with him to take care off him. Off course a child falls and when it happened she picked him up and said : No, he can't walk yet....

Time went by and we had a daughter. Those cousins and our children where almost always together, at the other weekend we had four children or we had none. Because our children grew older and wanted to sleep with their uncle and his daughters.
In the mean time my husbands other brother also had children, two girls. Their was a time that my children where sleeping at brother 1, the next day at brother 2 and the next weekend the slept at our place. Yes sometimes all six off them ore we had 4 children. At one point we even had 8 children over to sleep.

It was busy, but I really loved it. Waking up in the morning and hearing children voices who were talking and playing. Making a mess in the shower and they found it really funny, we didn't. In the winter when it was snowing we went outside for a walk and we trew snowballs to each other. Yes, it was busy but also a great time. We were washed out on Sunday evening, our children went to bed very early and we said to our selves "Let's not do that again".

Now the children are much older, my cousins are 19 and 18 years old, mine are 13 and 12 and the 2 girls from my husband's other brother are 7 and 9 years old. My cousins don't sleep at our house any more, they have other things on their mind!
The children of brother 2 sometimes sleep at our house, or our daughter sleeps at his house. My son doesn't want to sleep out any more.

But... my sister has 2 kids now, one is 4 years old and the other one is 2 years old. The oldest of 4 years old slept the whole weekend with us.

It seems like everything is starting al over again, a new generation is coming to sleep now. Cousins come and go and I have to say that I really love it.

Sleeping naked

I read somewhere a post about sleeping naked, it someone knows who's post it was please tell me.
I have to confess I love to sleep naked too, but I have a 13 year old son. So I also keep in mind that I can not do it any more or that I must have a night gown or something else that I can grab when I come out off bed.

I think about it, but do you think my son does the same...????
NO!

Well he thinks about it not to walk naked in the house (because his body is a no no place for me to see).

But check this out!
Just this week I was in the bathroom to take a shower, he just walks in!
I said 'can you please go, I'm ready and want to dry myself off'
NO he replies  I'm brushing my teeth.
And keeps on doing what he is doing.
Ok...., I think to myself, what to do now.
So, I open the shower curtain just a little bit and start to dry myself off.
He doesn't react and keeps on brushing his teeth.
While I'm drying myself I say to him
"So this evening when you are taking a shower, I'm going to brush my teeth"!

He looks at me and leaves the bathroom very quietly.....

I find this so strange behaver off him, I can't see him naked, but if he sees me it's ok!

I asked him this later and he says
"your body hasn't changed since I last seen it, but mine isn't.....!

Yeah right!