For those of you who have no clue what is “Sinterklaas“, just click on the words “Sinterklaas” in this text and it will take you to several other sites that explains what is “Sinterklaas” in English, with pictures and more just so you dont confuse it with Christmas because they are two complete different holidays, altho I am sure there are some connections to be found, the story is quite different. Ofcourse if you look for images on Google you can find a lot more pictures about it in many places and situations. After you have learned what is “Sinterklaas” you should continu to read on here.

Last year we basically skipped Sinterklaas because my youngest daughter was merely a few months old and my oldest was already 11. So instead we had a nice Christmas celebration. This year I wanted to do a little bit about it, not to much because shes barely 1 and a half and what does a child that young know about this stuff anyway. I doubt she understand anything of it. But the tradition that we did picked up here this year was putting the shoe with a carrot for the horse and singing songs just before bedtime. Then in the morning ofcourse there where little gifts to be found in the shoes. Nothing really big, just some candy, because like i said it doesnt really have a meaning to her yet I just wanted to introduce this holiday a little bit to her allready in a manner that its fun and maybe recognisable for her in the next years when we celebrate it. On the last morning she found in her shoe the traditional chocolate letter. I was late with shopping for them because there was only one letter A to be found anymore in the store. So for Antonio I bought the letter P for Papa and then ofcourse for me the M for Mama and the M for Merel, my oldest daughter. I am in doubt wheter she actualy understood what was going on all with the carrots in the shoes n the singing n why there was a package in the shoes, but she did understood what was a chocolate letter when she saw it and she also knew right what to do with it! I took some great pictures of this. And no worries we didnt let her finish that letter, after taking the pictures I took it away from her n cut of a little piece that she could have.

Now on to the next holiday, wonder how Anarosa is going to experience all that and how stressfull for us that is going to be. Last year she wasnt walking or even crawling arround in the house, she wasnt able to reach for the Christmas balls in the tree and prolly didnt even noticed any of the other decorations. Not sure yet how she can be part in the decorating but I’m sure I find a way. I just hope she stays out of the tree LMAO. For now, enjoy the pictures of Anarosa and her Chocolate Letter.

Since my last host again disabled my account for the third time… So hubby set up a new host account elsewhere. Lets hope this one is more reliable and less annoying for dissabling my blog, it’s not like I am doing bad stuff here or massive filesharing or mp3 download services or whatever LOL. Thanks Antonio for moving it all and getting it all to work again!

I love both my daughters equally. I truely can’t say that I love one of them more then the other, or that I have special place for one in my heart, where I don’t have that for the other. They are both very special to me. I am proud of both, every obstacle they over win and every challenge they beat just makes me the most proud mommy in the world. Of course for my youngest theres a lot of things to learn and find out what she likes and doesn’t like, where my oldest already has begun her own journey in life. She is a very intelligent and bright girl, very creative with drawing and painting, and shes very caring. She’s a very pretty young lady. My youngest, she loves music and dances about to every tune she hears, as young as she is! Her eyes are very pretty too! I will always be there when they need me, they will always have a place in my life and heart and always welcome into my house. As long as I live they will have a place to call home for sure. 🙂

Yes, its about Anarosa of course, often I sing little lullaby songs to her, mainly dutch ones and sometimes english. She usually rocks along when I sing, actually on any music she hears she would rock from side to side. She recently started to sing a little bit with me when I was singing Slaap kindje slaap. That’s a dutch lullaby. So when she was doing this again I wanted to put it on a video. And I have put it on video that she was singing with me . But right after I quit the video she started to sing alone. So I clicked the camera back on and I have got her first song performed alone on video LOL. Here you go guys.

Today, we are eating chow mein, I have spend the whole day at the dentist and my teeth are good as new LOL so I didn’t feel like cooking anything that’s a lot of work. Antonio didn’t wanted to cook neither so I went to the store and bought a quick and easy meal Chow mein 🙂 I bought a ready package from the brand kokki dawa , all I needed to add was some porkmeat, and a bag of mixed wok veggies. You can also of course make it with chicken or beef. If you want the recipe how to make it and don’t care spending the extra time… you can find it here along with a lot of other yummie things!