What Goes Up, Must Come Down

Sander is always short of sleep when he starts reading a book. He comes to bed VERY late at night. I nag to him he should learn how to put the book aside and come to bed. He can read again the next day …

Besides the fact he comes in at hours after midnight bumping into the bed, the wall, you name it and waking me, it is extremely annoying HOW he reads, because he disappears from the face of the earth.

This time he is hooked to some ( consisting out of 12 books ) fantasy book from Terry Goodkind , called the Laws of Magic. A neighbour gave him those to read. I am sooo happy she did that ( NOT ), he is just through part 4, still 8 to go.

I am already in bed when Sander turns in a few hours later.

Me : Did you finish the book ?

Sander : Noop … why ?

Me : Because you are already here …

Sander : No, I did what you said and stopped reading … coming to bed now ! How proud are you !?

Me : Wow … never knew I really made an impression … ‘Goodnight !

S : Goodnight !

– trying to catch sleep –

Suddenly I see some light coming from the other side of the bed. I take a peek … and it is gone. I tell myself I am seeing ghosts ! Than again, I see a flash … now it is coming from underneath the blankets.

Me : Honey ? …

Sander : Yeaahhhhh ? ( In that naughty voice )

Me : What yaaa doing ????

Sander : What do you mean ? ( Playing stupid )

Me : OHH MYY GOD, are you READING !!!!!

Sander : I took a flashlight … and … well, I am IN BED !!! Why ? Is it bothering you ?

Me : Sjjeeeees Sander … Gosh, can you MAYBE put that book aside ???

Sander : Ohh alllright …

Can you see now, what I have to live with !!!! How my husband reads books. I can jump up and down, go purple, shoot a gun, he won’t hear it. He reads ??? He is gone. Than he gets a shortage of sleep … and this is his solution !

– sigh –

Uhm ….

Don’t these go on your legs ?

No ??

Ya sure ???

Okay … if you say so …

When I was young ( yeah yeah, AGES ago ) … we had snow every winter, we skated on ice … every winter ! Nowadays kids may be happy if they are able to see snow at Holland a FEW times in their life.

Wellll, they got lucky today !!! The snow was here … and when I am writing this, it started snowing again ! Senna loves it. The neighbourboys are making a snowman … ( though they need to ‘borrow’ some snow as theirs will not be sufficient enough ).

Senna’s footsteps !!

Woohoooo !!!

And my little Luca, can’t forget to add a pic of her too, though … not in the snow !

Since I had my 2 girls, almost nothing of the minimum brains I had … was left. Everytime something happens that prooves it to me.

This week we had a letter from the police asking for people to keep an eye out for burglars of houses as well as for cars. Lately there have been to many things happening around this neighbourhood. They wrote to call the police as soon as you see someone acting strange around houses or cars.

Yesterday, in the morning, I had to go to the healthcentre for the 7 month check up of Luca. It was raining sooo hard I called my mom and asked her if she could take us there. My mom came by car. My mom had troubles getting the chair for Senna in the right position. She asked me to change it when she was watching the kids for a minute.

I went outside to her car. With the remote control I tried to look very important and opened the door. Well, the door was not opening … actually. Again … using the remote … nothing happened. My mom saw me struggle and came outside to help me. This while Senna followed her on her socks into the rain … ( sjees ). Than she tried … we heard the car make that open and close sound, so we didn’t get it at all !!! WHY was the door still closed !!

Than I came with the GREAT idea to use the remote AS a remote and actually stand on a distance using it. So, there we went … towards my door and … used the remote again. We heard the doors open and … some lights were flashing, like cars opening do … BUT not from the car I was trying to open. NOOO the car NEXT to it.

All that time, I had been TRYING to open my NEIGHBOURS car( same colour green, I am not a total blond here ) , while clicking my moms car on and off right next to it.

I tell you PEOPLE !!!!! CAN IT GET ANY WORSE !!!!

Besides the fact I looked horrible LOONEY !! I also had a laugh wondering if there was someone around .. that had called the police … thinking I was trying to get into their car …

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH, can I apply for a new set of brains, PLEASE ???

Today the doorbell rang around lunchtime. In a good mood I open the door, still having half a sandwich in my hand. A woman looks at me and starts her conversation.

Woman : Yesterday you got this catalogue and I am here to pick it up if you do not wanna have it anymore

I am staring at her … because I really don’t know what she is talking about. I never got that particular catalogue she is holding.

Me : What catalogue ??

Woman : This one, you got it yesterday …

Me : Me not got anything … Dunno what you are talking about

W : Yes , you got it, they brought it yesterday

I am getting slightly irritable ….

Me : Miss, I DID NOT GET IT

W : Yes you did, ( smiling ) you must have misplaced it

Okay, now she is OFFICIALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES …

Me : I … DID … NOT … GET .. THIS !!!

W : Yes you did, than you must have thrown it away , but that is allright !!

That last one she said in a way like ‘forgiving me’. And than … than she totally went to far

Me : WOMAN … When I say I didn’t get it, I DID not GET it, GET IT ??? I , Gawdamn, know what I get in my mail ! Sjeesss !

W : But, it is okay if you haven’t got it anymore … would you like a new one

Me : IF I haven’t GOT it anymore ?? A NEW ONE … a NEEEWWW ONE ??? OMG, woman, from WHAT Universe did they sent you ?? You are the most PIGHEADED I have ever seen ! Sjeeeeesssss

Than I decided to close the door, because take it from me, she would not have survived another minute. I mean, COME ONE PEOPLE !!!! Tell me, WHERE did I go wrong. Where was I not clear enough ??? WHY do they sent such people ??? WHY AT MY DOORSTEP.

Yesterday the doorbell rang. I went to the door and there was a mailman. He handed me over a package and said it was for the neighbours. They were not at home , so if he could leave it with us. No problem, of course. Than he handed me over another package meant for us. I left the package for the neighbours in the hallway and took ours to the livingroom.

Sander : Who was it at the door ?

Me : The mailman, he had a package for the neighbours. They are not at home, in fact, I think they are on holidays.

Still holding the package meant for us … I looked at the package ( from us ) to see where it was from. Than I ripped it open.

Sanders eyes opened wide. He looked at me and gasped …

Sander : WHAT are you doing !! Are you mad , woman !!!

Suddenly I realized I might have forgotten to tell him the mailman also gave a package for us and THIS was OUR package. But, hey … I would not be me if I didn’t milk this situation.

Me : Yeah, sooo … they are on holidays … what is the problem ?

Sander : Are you crazy … you are opening the package

Me : Yeah, I am opening it, so what ?  ( Hey , I was still not telling a lie )

Sander : Come on get a grip !!

Me : Oh, did I forget to tell you there came a package for us too ? This one ..

Sander : Sjeeeesss Marga .. you nearly gave me a fit !!! Hehehehe

Me : LOL the package for the neighbours is still in the hallway LOL

I love this … sometimes the situation is just there to use and create a funny situation ! YAY !

Today we went to the woods with the kids and my mom. As you know, my mom can be really hilarious when it comes to her noticing things, or actually NOT noticing them.

We walk along a pond in which a few ducks are swimming. On the bridge my mom says to us in a shocked way … ‘OMG that DUCK overthere has something large … he is eating it’. We look at the pond, notice the duck … and indeed the duck has something large.

To be exact … the DUCK is ON TOP of something … :whistle:  … Let’s say … we are staring at a VERY PRIVATE DUCKIE moment …

Husband : Well, I think he is NOT eating something

Mom : Wha … ? There look, he has something

Me : MOMMM, he is NOT EATING SOMETHING … he … hummm, he has fun … I don’t know if SHE can say the same

Mom : OHHHH NOO … OMG … I thought he was eating it !!

Husband : Noop, definately not eating …

Hahahahaah, I love my mom. She can be sooo naive ! YAY !

I rest my case …

My mom has been on a small trip to Danmark and Sweden. Of course she could not resist taking something with her for all her grandchildren.

After giving birth to 2 kids … never having had a propper holiday, we finally decided to take a week off and have ourselves a nice holiday.

The weekend before we were already looking forwards to it a lot ! We packed our stuff, and wooooww, you really do need a lot when you have 2 small children.

BUT … we were smart enough to book a SPECIAL CHILD-BUGALOW ! Meaning extra baby-bed, a babybox to play in, a changingtable, … babybath, toys … small table to play on and … a sandpit for Senna to play in in the garden !
Also, to make it easy, we rented bedsheets, blankets, bathclothes and so on … less packing, right ?

There we went, a 2 to 3 hour drive to the South of Holland. Picked up some grocries nearby the bungalow and went to the parc. We checked in … and drove off to the little house !
All, well … until we opened the door. Let me summ it up for you … let’s see what you say …

- Floor dirty from previous owners
- Spiderwebs everywhere
- Bathtoys smelled
- Toys broken and old
- Toysbox was dirty with HAIR !!!!
- Babybox for Luca to play in was in the shed ( she shed ??? ) and looked sooo dirty
- The extra things we rented were not there
- The babybed had no special babyblankets
- Changingtable ? No, just a pillow we had to flop somewhere

I got soooo angry and almost cried. So, we went to the frontdesk and complained. Than they sent a cleaner-group ( for free — uhhh , what do you mean for FREE ? .. YA really think I would have paid ? ).
I showed them the toybox and the head of cleaning nearly got a fit. They called in at the desk and they brought new toys.
After all this, it was … less worse, but still worse. The bungalow was made at 1970 … well it still looked like it too. All things were old and dirty. YUCK.

Than we decided, after all commotion .. to go and have dinner at the restaurant. Well, that was even worse. Flies at the tables … shitty food and a bill you fall down from.

Pissed as hell we went back to the bungalow to find there a bottle of wine and the mascot of the park in plush for Senna. Ah, well, we thought … let’s give it another try.

Than we made the beds with the stuff we ordered and finally got. The sheets … I tell ya, where covered in spots and had holes in them. Than I had had it …
Sander still wanted to give it all a try. Being married to Mr. Positive … I thought .. Okay. But .. could not catch any sleep knowing how dirty the sheets were.

At 4 a.m. I was done … completely. I told Sander, whom I found awake too, that I was gonna go home with Luca. I mean, I am not gonna spent another day in such a dirty house with a 4,5 months old baby.
Sander than said he was done too, had not slept at all and when he saw Senna ( totally covered with spots of bites of insects … ) he had decided we would all go home.

At 6 a.m. we were packed and had to wait for the parc to open at 9 a.m. to check out. We checked out .. gave back the wine and the plush ( because HELLL that is gonna come with us ). The lady asked when we were suppose to leave … and we told her FRIDAY. We assumed she would ask why we left, but noooop, she smiled and said ‘hope you had a nice stay and have a good trip’. Are you DRILLED than or what ???
So, Sander said ‘aren’t you gonna ask why we are leaving ?’ and she just looked at him .. and he went on ‘because if you ain’t … I am gonna tell you’. So, he did … shuved the wine in her face … the plush and said ‘nice try …’.

So, all left is … a complaint to the manager …
Teusday we were home …

The rest of the holidays ? We had a GREAT time ! We went swimming in the local swimmingpool here, we went to the Zoo, shopped at the city nearby Voorhout … went for a strole at the woods … we had a LOVELY time.

Lovely, here at Playa Voorhout !!!! And the bungalow … is GREAT, just like home. ROFLOL !