Back to work on Monday after an exhausting IKEA weekend: long trip to the mainland on Saturday, then six hours shuffling round the blue and yellow megabox, sustained only by Swedish meatballs and a family-size bag of Daims; Sunday busy with the allen keys, baffled by pictogram instructions simplified for our 23-language community.
What did [...]
Our plan last night was to put up shelves in our wardrobe and further reduce the chaos of our living conditions, which seems to involve shifting boxes from one room to another, until it becomes unmanageable, then redistributing the boxes to other rooms. Every few days we generate enough garbage to fill the bus and [...]
In 2009 we have lived in five different short-term rentals, beginning in Dakar and ending on a small Dutch island in the North Sea. Each time we never fully unpacked our bags, and the kids got used to surviving with a Nintendo DS rather than setting out their Lego cities and Playmobile schools. I hope [...]
As technology evolves, so do the arguments between siblings. Until recently, we heard outraged voices shrieking
“Mama! She broke my Wookie!”
or
“Don’t touch my My Little Pony stud farm!”
Things grew quieter when they started squatting in front of our laptops and watching Youtube and playing online games (with obligatory headphones).
Two days ago, however, I foolishly told our [...]
Say what?!