How Hidai saved Mother's Day

As things went this month, I was a bit surprised when March 10th arrived and with it Mother's Day. I actually usually like Mother's Day very much. I think mothers deserve a day in which they get acknowledged for everything they do and for the fact that, let's face it, they are taken for granted every other day of the year. So I always make sure people around here knows that it's coming, are working...

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Spectrums

Eye-test When I was young, the word spectrum always made me think of rainbows. I love rainbows. But I can't seem to put my finger on the moment that word stopped being about rainbows and colours and started being the scariest word in the English language, and I can't pinpoint the moment in which it started defining our life, it's all about spectrums nowadays it seems. Somewhere along the way to...

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All is Yon For a While

"There are a few things we need to discuss" is NOT a sentence you want to hear, no matter the circumstance. Especially not if you just sat down to a parent-teacher meeting in nursery. And yet it was exactly what Yon's teacher told us the Friday before last and caught us off guard and totally unprepared for this kind of conversation. He started listing the things that bother him, things...

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Worrying is an Olympic sport

I don't know if you've already noticed this, but I am a worrier. I worry all the time, about everything and everyone. I worry about the little things, I worry about the big things, I worry about the known and I worry about the unknown.I worry about the kids, their health issues (Yon's eyes, Ron's teeth and now his atopic skin), their academic issues (which of course exist only in my mind),...

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February Happy List

I want fun. I need fun. The truth is that I've been feeling a little down for the past week or so. I've been in this - life is hard, there is no light at the end of the tunnel no matter what you do - kind of mood. As always there are good reasons for this feeling, and as always I know this too shall pass, but I find I am sick and tired of everything being so tough all the time. I hate this feeling...

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