Day #47 & 48: Yellow & pink!

So first of yesterday's photo... I took this one very early in the morning, right before I went to work...Cause I've been out all day and got home at 23.30, so didn't feel like blogging anymore...

My week of colors, I wanted to do the colors of the rainbow, but realy I had no clue it started with red!! LOL, So I'm going to use several colors from any color palette, going from light to darker. This week I'm going to show you White - Yellow - Pink - Red - Purple - Blue - Green. Haven't got an idea for what to photograph in these colors yet...

So Today it's YELLOW! Uhm,& Yes it's another pretty flower a daffodil, these are standing in my living room window and couldn't resist.  I always love these flowers...

A little about the color YELLOW: -1.Yellow is one of the three primary colors. -2. The word yellow comes from the Old English geolu, The color is associated with age and aging, both with people and objects. -2. Our sun and stars in the universe have a color temperature that we characterize as "yellowish". -4. Yellow is associated with Monday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone that may wear yellow on Mondays, and anyone born on a Monday may choose yellow as their favorite color. -5. In some countries, taxicabs are commonly yellow. This practice began in Chicago, where taxi entrepreneur John D. Hertz painted his taxis yellow based on a University of Chicago study alleging that yellow is the color most easily seen at a distance.

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So now on to day #48: Today is PINK! I've his this cute comfy sweater for like 4 years now and still love it. I do have to say I don't wear it that often anymore, since well it kind of lost it's glory years ago!! LOL. I still only wear it around the house when I don't feel like going out... :)

So here's a littls sumthin' about the color PINK: -1. Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century. -2. Pink itself is a combination of red and white. -3. Roseus is a Latin word meaning "rosy" or "pink." -4. In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s. From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys (OK who knew this???)  because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary. Since the 1940s, the societal norm apparently inverted so that pink became appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century. -5. Pink is the color of the Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon. Pink was chosen partially because it is so strongly associated with femininity. -6. Most flamingo species are pink in color due to pink pigments in their diet, mostly shrimps. -7. The Pink Panther is a popular cartoon character.

Going to my FIL in the hospital later on and have got softball practice after diner. Probably won't be posting tomorrow either since my mom and I are going to the musical 'Tarzan' tomorrow night and have no clue what time I will be home! see you soon! xo

Day #45 & 46: Image heavy!!

Ok ladies I decided to redo my post from yesterday, so sorry for those sweet ladies who left me some loving! I truly appreciate all those wonderful comments I get everyday, you all rock!!

Now day #45: Last night I babysitted Thijs & Max, Antoinette's cute little boys. Thijs used to go to my group at daycare and Max is still there, but at another group! I taught Antoinette how to digiscrap and I also talked her into to starting project 365.

Here are those cuties, taking a bath...they had so much fun and so did I making photos of them being goofy and playing around....  Here are two other photos, I took I really adore... First Max in the bath tub and love those waterdrops in his face... And here's Thijs and their cute puppy Beau...Isn't this sweet?? A little boy and his dog! :)

So did you all have a wonderful valentine's?? Well we did, like I said we babysitted these boys and they were the sweetest. On Wednesday Antoinette asked if we could babysit, so her and DH could go out to diner. I told her I would ask my guy and would let her know. So I called her back that evening, saying we would do under one condition... If they would make us a yummy candle light valentine's diner.!!! LOL. Well Pascal, Antoinette's DH took that very serious and made us a wonderful 3 COURSE diner...do you believe that??? So here are some photos I took of it... First he decorated the table with two red roses in a vase and these candles with rose leaves around it... The first course was Carpaccio with pine nuts, bread & parmesan cheese, a home made sauce & more... Then the main course, really he had prepared TWO whole chickens for us...yeah JUST for the two of us!! LOL, As you can imagine it was WAY too much! He also made veggies: all sorts of peppers, oinions and pineapple from the oven... Then a yummy salade, some kind of veggie gravy for the chicken & little round patatoes. I think we only eat half of it! Pascal THANKS again, it was awsome and we really enjoyed it!!! It all looked so nice, I had to take these photos and show everyone how sweet this was!! It was very special and tasted like you've put a lot of love into this whole meal!!!  :) When I said diner, I was thinking about something simple, but really this was too much!!! So when are you going to invite us for dineragain??? JK, LOL Thanks again!!!

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So on to week 8!! Wow time is flying by sooo fast!! I haven't done my week 7 page, but will do that asap, but have got an extemely busy week ahead!

This week I'm going to let it be all about colors. So here is today photo and color! Day #46: White... A beautiful flower, got these flowers from Antoinette & Pascal amongst other things for babysitting the kids last night! White is the most natural color. Just a few little facts about this color....Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum.  A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. There are a lot of naturals things that are white such as: snow, sugar, salt, sand cotton, clouds, seasheels & more.... Fact: The sum of all the colors of light add up to white.

I probably will be posting my day #47 photo of tomorrow, on Tuesday...Cause I will be out all day and night! See you soon! hugs!

Day #44: What's for diner??

Well it's pasta!!! A few months ago I found this yummy recipe on a Dutch lady her blog and it looked so incredibly good I had to try it. This is the 3rd time I made and we both love it!!!!

Here's the list of the ingredients, although I know there a couple of things in here, they don't have everywhere...like in the USA!

Ingredients: Penne Pasta - Leek - Brocolli - 'Rookworst', some kind of smoked sausage (typically dutch!) - 4-cheese sauce & topped with a few pine nuts.

I can tell you it's gooooood! Sadly I had diner all by myself...My guy had to leave to see his father. He's been atmitted to the hospital yesterday. He had some kind of stroke in his brains on Monday... he went to the hospital but they send him home that day. He needed to get back the next day for some tests, but nothing specific came out. Yesterday he had another one and they kept him at the hospital, cause they wanted to observe him for the night...finally! He's on meds now and doing a little better, but they do want to keep him for a few more days. So my guy had to pick up his mom at 7PM to go see his dad... He'll be here in a bit and will have a late diner this time! 

I just hope his dad will recover soon...And this will all pass, cause we had enough of these awful events the last two weeks and it's getting a little too much for me at the moment!!!

Day #43: Patience

Well sometimes we need to have a lot of patience working with kids. Everyday we're taking care of 12 kids in the age of 0-4 years old and well it isn't always that easy! There are always a few that well try to get you worked up...but I never try to let them go that far! Sometimes I just need a few minutes to clear my head or they could drive me crazy! LOL

We once had this mom who totally understood how hard it can be, so when her little girl went to school she gave us this book with fun quotes about 'a thousand ways to patience'. To be honest there are a lot of people and even parents who think our job being a teacher at daycare is easy! They think that all we do is sit on our behinds and watch them play...Well I can tell you we don't!! There's just too many things to be done everyday and we're always on the go and taking care of all those little ones! A few years ago we found this poem kind if thing about working at a daycare... I'll make a copy of it one of these days and will try to translate the thing. It's just soooo on! :)

My intention for today was to take a photo of the full moon, but I can't find it anywhere... It's kind of cloudy today, so I guess it's hiding. Hopefully it will show up tomorrow! :)

Day #42: Ice crystals...

When I walked to my car to go to work this morning, my front car window was covered with these ice crystals. I grabbed my ice scratcher, but I wasn't coming off at all...

So I turned on my blower to full heat and just waited... While waiting for it to start defrosting, I thought why not take a photo of this for today...And so I did!! The nieghbours must have thought I'm crazy...taking a photo of your frozen car window at 7 in the morning, using a flash!! LOL

Day #41: Milka...

chocolate rules. I love this one with the peices of hazelnuts in it. It's so good and if I could I would share it with all of you... But as you can see there are, uhm...were only two pieces left when I took this photo and now they're all gone! Yup I ate te last two pieces all by myself! LOL

Sorry about that... but I have to tell you I didn't ate this whole bar by myself. LOL I've had for a week and shared it with my colleagues. Brought it back home this weekend and well I needed a little comfort food! I bruised my enckle when I was about to go change for softball practice. It kind of hurt and started swelling so I stayed home for practice. I cooled it and also this chocolate made me feel a little better! LOL

Yup!! I've been tagged!!

* Link back to the blog (s) that tagged me: Biancka, Debra & Gail, so here we go!!!

** I'm supposed to list six interesting things about me....but I can tell you this is going to be hard! LOL

1. I once broke my little finger, wel actually my little brother did... but he's always been in denial!! LOL Since a couple of months when I'm waking up, my little finger had crossed way over to my middle finger and I guess it stayed there for the night! LOL. Pretty weird huh, yeah guess I am a little weird! :)

2. I always need to have a glass of milk with every meal I eat. I just loooove milk and wouldn't wanna live without it!

3. I had a car accident with one of the cars from my dad's garage one day after I got my drivers license!!! Yeah I know, but it wasn't my fault! Some car behind me speeded and couldn't stop before this nasty curve and well I saw him coming closer and just got scared...so I turned my wheel and ran into this pole along the side of the road. I called Abdel (we were just dating for 3 days) and he totally laughed at me!! Although not sure if this whole little story in interesting! hihi

4.  I speak several languages: Dutch of course, English, German & French...although those are a little rusty by now!! Arabic, but hard to have a conversation with someone who speaks it, cause they always talk waaay too fast! Then I also know a little berber, wich a dialect for arabic, my inlaws speak! >>>

(Ok Karen, sorry I stole this from you! LOL, running out of inspiration here!)

5. I love butterflies in every way. Of course the real ones, but it's hard to catch them when they always fly away when I get near. But also love fake ones! My toilet is filled with plastic, plaster and all other kinds of fabrics butterflies. Everyone always loves my lavatory! :)

(are we there yet?? LOL)

6. Ttwo of my cousins and I (and I think my GM has it too), all have the same birthmark. It's right above our bottoms... we discovered this like a year ago and just thought it is kind of funny! :) (Just couldn't think of anything else right now)

Now I need to tag 6 other people:

1. Tracy
2. JanMary
3. Teresa
4. Sonja
5. Kimberley
6. Domad
   

See you all tomorrow...or maybe thursday, depends on the time I get home tomorrow, but will be late I think! xox

Day #39 & 40: lots of photos!

Yup missed posting a day and got a little behind schedule! Cause I've got yesterday's and today's photo to show and well haven't started my week 6 page yet, but will do that tomorrow for sure!

It's been one busy day yesterday, first I went to the zoo with our niece nephew and my SIL. It was fun, but the weatjher was a little cold and greyish!  It was this safari zoo were you could take the car and drive close by to some of the animals. There was also a normal zoo part there... The animals we saw there I love most are zebra's. Just love those beautiful patterned stripes and they way they move... So here's my day #39 photo for the day!

We came home late last night after diner with my uncle and aunt and just got home too... It's now 22.00 and just didn't feel like processing any of my photos, cause my throat kind of hurts and I'm just too tired. I only added my mark to the photos. But I do want to show you a few more of the zoo photos. So remember they all came out of my camera just a few minutes ago!   So there they are: najima, Appie's sister, Imane & Aatik! :)   :)

Now on to today's photo: Day #40: After work we had a refresher course for first aid. We have this twice a year and it's so helpful... But this morning when I went to work I totally forgot it was today...so was kind of bummed I had to stay at work till 21.00 instead of till 17.00. But I managed, but totally exhausted right now! We refreshed the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on these baby, infant and kids dolls. here's my sweet colleague Marjolein precticing on one of the baby's...They call her Anne...

It's always a good thing to have this refreshing course twice a year, cause well you probably know what to do when you REALLY need it, but after a long day of work I always have to think just a little harder, but we all did fine! :)

Will leave lots of loving in the morning on my day off, but gotta go get some sleep..didn't have a lot os sleep this weekend and sooo tired! Oh yeah I've been tagged by Biancka & Gail and will play for sure tomorrow!! Hugs!

Day #38: NON processed!!

Really I'm not kidding and din't do anything to this photo. The sky really looked like that @ 18.00 PM this afternoon. I had no idea for a photo, but when I was driving to the grocery store with my SIL we spotted this and just had to take it! :)

Didn't brought my tripod so put my camera on the car and just that as a steady underground...used a long shuttertime for this! :) Hope you like it...

Tomorrow we're going to the zoo with our niece and nephew...then go bowling with my parents, my brother, his GF, my aunt, uncle and little cousin and then having diner together...I really need some time of and just do fun things. Going to be hard to just pick one photo! :) See you then! xo

Oh have one more little goodie I have to share....

Yoohoo, I'm now part of the A5D site creative team..also know as the creative genius'. Isn't that awsome?? I'm still so honored and so fun to see a couple of formiliar faces there, Hi Sarah! :)

Day #37: Used a lot...

Of these tissues this past week. Today was the funeral and it was very emotional, hard and still so unreal! I'm still full with unbelieve, such a young man took out of this little boy's life. There are still sooo many questions unanswered and wonder if we ever find/hear those. I hope we can all give this big loss a place in our hearts! Rest in peace Dennis!

Now I'm just going to relax, clear my mind and just watch TV, Popstars is on... xox

Day #36: Oh the smell of these...

Yeah they're blooming in full glory... my hyacinths that is! :)

They are beautiful and the smell they produce is truly incredible! I love coming home from work...when entering my living room this lovely flower aroma comes my way. Mmmm they bring a little smile to my face these days!