Today I went out to look for a recipe book about salads, as I wanted to have new suggestions and ideas. I felt a little “dried up” on this. I succeeded in buying a very nice and complete book on salads. The “Saladebijbel” will bring me many new recipes and a lot of new ideas….
Tag: mother
Spider plant that belonged to my mother.
Chlorophytum comosum is a well known houseplant. The common name for this plant is spider plant, but is also known as airplane plant, St. Bernard’s lily, spider ivy or ribbon plant. In Dutch the plant is known as “Zebragras” or “Graslelie”. It wants a light place, but preferably not too much direct sunlight. Apart from…
A small story related to my mother…
Last evening I had a long talk with Sanne. Sanne is a long time friend of Marion and me (I know her as long I know Marion, but Marion and she even went together to school). Somehow the subject of the conversation turned to my mother (if I remember correctly the upcoming birthday of Sanne’s…
And life goes on… Memories…
The funeral of my mother is already two days ago. It is kinda weird, but it seems that life it picking itself up again. Of course thoughts are still very often with her, but the normal everyday things started to be addressed again. The funeral itself went exactly the way it was planned. It was…
We knew this sad day would arrive…
After a very long period of suffering with her health my dear mother passed yesterday away… We knew that this sad day would arrive and now that it is here it brings a lot of sadness for us. Last Friday my sister in law was called by the home where my mother stayed that the…
“Twente Ballooning” and being in Haaksbergen again…
Last Friday, after work, I travelled towards the town of Oldenzaal. I took the afternoon off, so I would arrive in time. Main goal of this trip was to visit my mother, who stays in a home in Haaksbergen. As I wrote already before here on my blog, I am very worried about my mothers…
A big shock…
When I left last Sunday from Haaksbergen to Amsterdam, I knew my mother was not feeling well. She got anti-biotics and for some reason her body acted reacted very bad on that. But for antibiotics you always need to take the complete cure. So when in the train, I called my mother to hear how…
Appreciate what you have…
Right now I sit in the hospital waiting before I can visit my mother (see my last post). Sitting here…. seeing worried people, people with health problems… people in pain… people with an unclear future…. We people are so spoiled… have so many priorities all wrong… In the end it comes all down to people,…