by Sande | Jan 20, 2010 | attitude, Family, wordless wednesday
… out and about cause their ‘too cool to be hot’ and the car has airconditioning …… they go left and right around the stack of potholes in our road and yet Brielle, head banging our shoulders, sleeps on … … and the wheels go...
by Sande | Jan 2, 2010 | Family, publishing, who knows
By Jodie McEwenWhen people discover that Mark and Sandra De Hoogh have ten children, their reactions are varied. “Wow! You look so young!” “Are you Catholic?” “Don’t you have a TV?” or the most common “Have you worked out what’s causing it yet?”With the characteristic...
by Sande | Nov 13, 2009 | Family, holidays, mumma, my life as a story, repost
Away now … this one seemed relevant to run again …We were someplace smack between Alice Springs and the Devils Marbles travelling a stretch of desert which could have been confused for the moon. There were no buildings, mountains or vegetation here. Just...
by Sande | Sep 11, 2009 | Family, my man, perspective
When we decided to have a “more than you bargain for” size family, my husband and I had to calculate the cost. For me, I believed I would be sacrificing the freedom to have coffee with the girls and of any acceptance to ‘normalness’, of ever...
by Sande | Aug 30, 2009 | analogies, Family, who knows
Really. I just thought our cow was loosing it. I had spotted her walking backward. The first time I thought my eyes were fibbing. Bizarre thing to see. Like some kind of bovine moonwalk. All kinds of crazy behaviour is to be expected from an expecting heifer.But...
by Sande | Aug 23, 2009 | ahh moments, Family, humor, mumma, who knows
Talk to anyone I know in the skin and they will tell you that I have been looking forward to not having so much in my thinker, to doing ‘boring’ for a while, to slowing down….. and when I do SLOW DOWN, I’m not entirely happy either …....
