B eing pregnant anywhere is a mixed bag of emotions from elation to sickness. Raising children abroad is both amazing and challenging wrappe...

“ I started working here eight years ago and I can still remember the day you walked in for the very first time – a newborn baby in your ar...

L ast August I took my eldest two sons to their first eredivisie match at the Kyocera Stadion in The Hague. We’ve been to most home games si...

A few weeks ago spots suddenly appeared on my youngest son's neck and chest. There was a pox on our house, and it didn't come or le...

H as raising your children in the Netherlands rubbed off on your parenting style? Does seeing the letters HAVO make you frown in confusion o...

D utch football has been tarred with scandal over the last few weeks and my local eredivisie club is no exception. When racism reared its u...

I have three boys in three different classes at school. That means there are a lot of belongings flying around outside our home: lunch boxe...

I n March, Bonbon Break asked for submissions relating to the theme of "Fill your Bucket"in association with Our Pact . Anyone tha...

I live in a country where children generally fare well in happiness surveys  and Dutch children always rate much higher in the happiness sta...

  I have three children aged nine, six and four. I know what I am talking about when I say there are things you should do before you beco...

N obody warned me before I became a mother about the sentences that would come out of my mouth once I had children. Nobody told me about t...

I was asked by Leila of Sensitive and Extraordinary Kids to write a guest post and I was more than happy to oblige. One of the thing...

I was delighted to be asked by Bod for Tea to write about what it is like to raise children as a Brit in the Netherlands. It is only by...

I wrote a guest post for Your Expat Child on the topic of expats staying in touch with their extended family. Geography does not deter...

T here's so much spinning around my head right now that it is hard to come up with one topic for a blog post that I can really get my te...

I t's school holidays here in the Netherlands and we've just got back from visiting friends in Prague. My friends are also Brits but...

M y six year old son announced this morning from his sick bed, "Mama, there are some Dutch words you can't say properly because y...

I recently guest posted for Bringing up Brits on the topic of raising kids who were born in a different country to the one I was born in....