Power outage and we love memoirs Dutchy Vlog 21

Today I thought would be another, not too exciting, day at work. But a power outage shook us up and chenged the day (for the better ;-) ).
And did you know today is 'we love memoirs day'? Well, neither did I, but  I found out yesterday. What I think of memoirs and will I be writing one? Find out in my video :-).

xx Dutchy

Chromecast, Slinky and Icecream Dutchy Vlog 20

If you didn't know (and you probably didn't ;-) ), August 30th is Slinky day! If I still would have owned one I would have garbbed it and at least had it take one run down the stairs :-). But well, no Slinky in the house anymore, so laundry it was for me today. And ironing, lots and lots of ironing.

And that ironing is so much better since we have chromecast. I watch my favorite vlogs on tv while ironing, could life get any better??? Ah well, yeah, without the ironing part it could of course :-D.

And as for the icecream...you should just watch the video.

xx Dutchy

Individual rights day and Murphy's law Dutchy Vlog 19

Today Murphy's law was fully operative... It started in the morning, one of our smoke alarms was beeping. It turned out that, although it is connected to the power in our house, it needed a new (back-up) battery.

We decided we would go biking to a birdpark 16 kilometres (10 miles) away, but when hubby prepared the bikes he saw that the canvas was shining through or the rear wheel of our oldest. So we first went to a bike shop. He didn't have the tire we needed, so he would order it and he said that we could still go to the birdpark by bike.

So off we went :-).

When we had cycled for a couple of miles we stopped to drink some water. When I got back on my bike again it suddenly had a flat tire. We had nothing to fix it with. Two women passed us and then they came back. One of the women asked if we had a bike repair kit and when we said we didn't she gave her kit to us and just drove of, that was so kind!

Elliott picked up the pieces of the tire valve and then he dropped the little ring, we searched for 10 minutes, but the little ring was nowhere to be found.

We then decided I would cycle home and hope that my tire would still be okay when I would get there. I would then take my car and drive to the birdpark by car. Halfway on my way home hubby called that Elliott had a flat tire now...a nail went in! Talking about Murphy's law....

Eventually Elliott's bike was repaired by a bike shop in the village where they were and when I got there we decided it was too late to still go to the birdpark, but there was a village fest we attended which was also a lot of fun.

At nights we had friends over, we had a great time with them and all in all we mostly laughed through it all...what else could we do :-).

Dutchy

National Bow tie day and uninvited guests Dutchy Vlog 18

Did you know that today is National Bow Tie Day in the USA?! I like 'days'  and when I know it is a 'day'  I usually happily comply. I like to have a reason to celebrate or be somewhat silly, so these kid of days are 'right up my sleeve' ;-).

Lightning photography and judo Dutchy Vlog 16

Today I was so excited, because I finally got to photograph lightning!

Scan your own groceries Dutchy Vlog 15

Some things become so normal over time...The great thng about my vlog is that I get responses from people who don't live in the Netherlands and they make me see that some things about the Netherlands are pretty special, like scanning your own groceries!

Back to school Dutchy Vlog 14

To day it was back to school for three of our four kids (Nathaniel will start school in December when he turns 4). I never like 'back to school', I love it when all the kids are at home (although I do appreciate the education of course :-) ).
They all had a great day at school, so they're off to a good start!