Baby / Lark / Motherhood / Personal

Forgotten Photos, Part One

May 2, 2018

After it had been sitting on the shelf for a year or so, we broke out our nice camera when we went to the Keukenhof a few weeks ago. When I got around to loading the photos onto the computer after our trip, I was surprised and delighted to find a bunch of images captured […]

Baby / Life Abroad / Pregnancy

Reflections on Giving Birth Abroad

February 26, 2017

If you’ve been following along for awhile now, you already know that there are a lot of differences between how the Dutch and American systems handle pregnancy and birth (if you’d like to get caught up, see parts 1, 2, and 3 here). I’ve also written about Prim’s very “American-style” birth (read: induction, Pitocin, epidural, being […]