woensdag 29 mei 2013

swinging from the past into the future




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Grateful
I am for my new garden.
I am absolutely the worst
in letting go
both THINGS
and THE CONTROL 

And yet
I am learning
and 
SURPRISE
SURPRISE
it is amazing

wonderful things happen
and my new garden
is so wonderful 


This is NOT
my garden 
but my WISH 


I do have lots of space now
new space
so the inspiration
can come !


I could have
something like this
but thanks to my neighbour
my beautiful
very big chestnut tree
is gone
for two years now

time to move on 
and start over .
That's life 

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vrijdag 17 mei 2013

** SURPRISE * SURPRISE **


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Insensiblement
le bleuté devient jaune
et c'est aujourd'hui.

onmerkbaar
het blauwige wordt geel
en het is vandaag

unnoticed
the blue-ish becomes yellow
and today is here 

written by my friend Barbara
who is french

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Today is here
anita organised
a Paris Simply Irresistible Party
and 
every-one
on this tour
is able to make new friends
to visit
and take a look

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*S*U*R*P*R*I*S*E*

PLEASE BE WELCOME
SOYEZ BIENVENUE


My name is Francis
and I live in HOLLAND
I am a mother of four
all living on their own now
and a grandmother of Eva who is almost 2
I was a kindergarten-teacher
but now I do not work anymore
so I am a happy stay-at-home-girl
and I love blogging




Blogging is where I have met
some amazing and inspiring women
living all over the world


wish I could make you some macarons


and invite you over
for tea or coffee

or to stay longer
and make you lunch or dinner

There are a few bloggers
I send mail and they surprise me
with wonderful
postcards letters or even packages



I love the real handwritten mail
and the beautiful stamps


Blogging
has been a blessing for me
and helped me to discouver
who I am
without my children and my job


to know there are 
soulmates
far away and yet not so far
is so wonderful


I have learned so much when I 
began to write in english 
a big step for a dutch girl
I have a love for language , 
and I do love French too


before I was a mother 
I drove a citroen 2CV
I had a blue one
and also a red one
I love the sound they make
and the comfort the soft bobbing
and the open roof in the summer




In a few hours 
I can be in France by car
how MAGICAL is that
I love the country 
I have friends who live there
I love the PETIT PAIN
 and the CROISSANTS








THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR
 VISITING ME 

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donderdag 9 mei 2013


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Happy family
In France 
november 2011
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my life is like a rollercoaster
so much is happening
for the BEST 
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and when things get 
too much
I look at this picture
and I know all
is to be okay

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my children are giving me
A GARDEN MAKE-OVER
so  I can control it myself
and I visualise


This is one of my wishes
all a bit higher 
new beginnings
so Eva can help me too 



its all a big mess now
but I know
all is going to be 
MORE than allright

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donderdag 2 mei 2013


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By three methods
we may learn
WISDOM

first
by
REFLECTION
which is the noblest

second
by
IMITATION
which is easiest

third
by
EXPERIENCE
which is the bitterest

CONFUCIUS

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Happy 
month of MAY
to all of you

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