Mother's column – where is Reinout?

On a bike ride, we discover a treehouse somewhere in the countryside. I decide to go back with the eldest children a few days later. It will surely make a nice day trip! I prepare sandwiches and put drinks and bananas in my bag. There we go, on our way to a tree house that does not belong to us. The weather is a bit colder than I thought. But an adventurous mum does not let that stop her.

Shortly after Sifra's birth in 2021, I am not quite the phlegmatic mother I wanted to be. It also does not help that Reinout has had the RS virus as a baby and that this virus is going around at the time that Sifra is born.

When I was a child, I knew what I wanted to be when I was older: a maternity support worker, of course! I thought being busy with a baby all day would be fantastic.