Gisteren kocht ik een fietskar bij de Hema. Ik blijf sparen voor een Fietsfabriek bakfiets, maar het gaat nog een hele tijd duren en ik wil deze zomer kunnen fietsen met de meiden. Twee stoeltjes vind ik niks en ik blijf zoeken voor mijn evenwicht (ben een keer hard gevallen met Mirthe, zij op haar hoofd :-( en ik op mijn knie) en Anna vindt een fietsstoeltje ook vreselijk, huilt de hele tijd. Dus een fietskar voor een jaar ofzo -- dat leek me een goed idee en bovendien, het vakantiegeld was net binnen :-) We hebben met z'n vieren een heel stuk gefietst, door de weilanden achter het Heksenwiel, langs Terheijden. En aan het eind een kopje koffie gedronken bij de Texas Bar. De meiden vonden het geweldig, en Anna viel heerlijk in slaap -- geen huilen, niks! Mirthe kletste de hele tijd en het weer was zo mooi -- echt zomers.
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ok i can make out something about a Texas bar and Anna sleeping...
thats about as good as it gets...
:) XOXO
Yesterday I bought a bike trailer by the Hema. I'm still saving up for a Fietsfabriek bakfiets (see www.fietsfabriek.nl) but that's going to take forever (I've got two kids in shoes now :-( and I really want to bike this summer with the girls. Two kid seats on one bike scares me to death -- I took a nasty fall once, with Mirthe -- she fel on her forehead and I twisted my knee. Anna screams her head off every time I put her in the bike seat and can't seem to see the fun in it. So I thought, a bike trailer for a year or so, not a bad idea and besides, my vacation money had just been deposited in my account. (For non-Dutch readers: vacation money is something you get in May, about 8% of your yearly salary. Usually about an extra month's pay. You get taxed extra heavy on your vacation money. It's not something you get for free from your employer :-) -- they set it aside for you every month and pay you out in May. It's kind of like forced saving, so that you can take a vacation or two a year. We get five weeks off, more if you work for the government. That kind of time off needs financing! We usually spend our vacation money on things like shoes, stuff for the backyard, furniture, going out to eat. And we rent a house on Terschelling for a week -- this year from 28 May to 4 June.) Anyway, we biked a pretty good distance Saturday, to get used to how the thing rides -- took the bike paths through the fields behind the Heksenwiel, nearby Terheijden. At the end we stopped for some coffee at the Texas Bar. The girls loved it, and after a half hour Anna fell into a deep sleep -- didn't cry once! There was no fighting, because the rule was, the minute I heard bickering, one of them had to sit in the bike seat (I still have it mounted on the back of my bike.) Mirthe chattered the whole way, pointing out the cows (and the cow poop, of course) and the butterflies and the boats in the canal by the bike path. It was beautiful weather, the first real summer day. Kind of a chilly wind (that's why they have sweaters on -- today it was almost 90 and I'm breaking out in a sweat just looking at those pictures of sweaters and tights!)
Thank you! We had a bike trailer for the boys and used it often...good purchase.Looks like the girls -and you- will really enjoy it! 90??wow! it is 60 here...
Yesterday the mail brought with it a package from your mother- for me and my mother. What a thoughtful thing...
Beautiful, wonderful smelling, soaps. What a nice treat!
lots of love to you...I am at work...
more later
Have a wonderful time in Terschelling! We will be at a soccer tournament this weekend.
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