The life of a Dutch scrapper

Zwangerschapsmodellen gezocht voor fotoshoot!!

corinnexxx

inschrijving actie " Win een trouwerij!" verlengd tot 11 januari!!

Tot op heden hebben we nog niet de response gehad als waarop we hadden gehoopt. Geen idee waarom er zo weinig word gereageert, wellicht dat het nu een drukke periode voor mensen is zo met de feestdagen of je denkt misschien dat je niet een hele goede reden hebt om opnieuw te trouwen. Alleredenen dingen echter mee naar deze prijs, dus ook als je alleen maar als reden hebt dat jullie na al die jaren nog steeds zoveel van elkaar houden :).

Dus schrijf je vandaag nog in, want wie wil er nou niet nog een keer trouwen(nu misschien wel in bijzijn van je kinderen) met de liefde van je leven?! Ben je zelf niet getrouwd maar weet je wel iemand voor wie deze actie veel zou kunnen betekenen deel dan dit bericht of voorgaande post via email/facebook of twitter.

Woensdag 11 januari is nu de laatste dag dat jij je kunt inschrijven! Zondag 15 januari wordt de top 5 bekend gemaakt!

Kijk voor alle voorwaarden HIER. 

Corinnexxx

 

2011-2012

I am happy 2011 is over. Was it a bad year? No not entirely. Actually it was pretty good on many parts but also pretty bad on other parts. I feel like I have been searching the past year, for myself. Finding it, losing myself again and now slowly finding myself again. The same goes for balance. Then I have it, then it is gone. It just feels like many things are in my reach, but once I want to grab them it seems like my fingertips can’t seem to hold on and I fall again....frustrating to say the least.

So now 2011 is over and 2012 has just begun. A new window of opportunities, new directions and new hope. I still am going to try to grab the things that are in my reach and that I want to accomplish for years now and this time I simply will not let go once I can touch it again. I am going to find my balance, spend more time with my family and friends and overall be more happy. That is what I wish to achieve in 2012, that is what I long for, that is what I need.

I will sit down tomorrow and will write down all my dreams and goals for 2012. I find it important to do this, because if you have no dreams or no goals then you are standing still and life is just passing you by, with you waiting, hoping things will happen. 

So here is to 2012, let’s kick it!!!

corinnexxx

 

Nog een keertje trouwen met dezelfde man, wie wil dat nou niet?

Ja je leest het goed, nog een keer met de man trouwen met wie je misschien al 10 jaar getrouwt bent! Nou dit kan dus nu, en ook nog wel helemaal gratis en voor niks!!! Delis Photography zal in samenwerking met andere bedrijven dit aan 1 stel weggeven als kick-off actie voor het lanceren van mijn trouwfotografie website. Je kunt je opgeven tot 4 januari, dus wacht niet te lang met insturen. Ben je nou niet getrouwt maar ken je wel stellen die hiervoor in aanmerking komen stuur dit bericht dan door naar zoveel mogelijk mensen zodat we heeeel veel inzendingen krijgen. Alle informatie over hoe en wat en welke bedrijven ervoor gaan zorgen dat dit een dag om nooit meer te vergeten gaat worden staat HIER.

corinnexxx

Ho ho ho, I feel like Santa!

I do! but it is not Christmas yet and my HUGE give-away just have to wait till it is Christmas day. Tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the morning I will be launching my new Weddingphotography website and I also will be doing a HUGE give-away that I know you do not want to miss, no you do not, trust me ;)

So after you finished your Christmas breakfast come take a look here or on my photography blog.

Corinnexxx

Which health insurance to choose?

That was the top question this week for me. I want a heath insurance that would cover the medication of me and Anthony because now I have to pay a lot of money each month and I do not want to pay for that anymore next year. So I was on the hunt for the best heath insurance for our family that would also cover most of the Orthodontic things for Anthony. Coincident or not the magazine Balans was falling on my doormat this week and they pointed out a few health care choices that were perfect for us and if you were a member of their magazine you also would get a discount. So I checked things out and also looked at other health insurances out there but Avero Achmea did it for me. I choose the royaal package for my family. I opted for an extra dentist insurance but she told me that it would cost me at least 200 euro(the cheapest package that I wouldn't have chosen anyway) a year and if we are not know for having tooth problems she said that we probably wouldn't even need it. We would only have to go to a much more expensive one and that would bring up our monthly cost insanely. So we choose not to take an extra dentist insurance(the kids are covered anyway) and hope that our teeth will stay good hahaha.

So now our monthly costs are 251,74 euro a month AND our ADHD medication is fully covered(which could costs me 90 euro a month otherwise!). So if you are interested in this kind of insurance as well make sure you subscribe to the balans magazine(www.balansdigitaal.nl) to get the benefits of this(follow the link through their website to the health insurances). Oh and the heath insurance will cover 85 % of the subscription costs as well :).

I hope this will help people who are in the same boat as me.

Corinnexxx

PS: be sure you keep an eye on this blog because something AMAZING is coming up soon!!!!!!!! 

Update on Anthony's school

Yesterday I had a meeting with the care-team at Anthony's school and his teacher and we came up with a plan for Anthony. I explained them that Anthony has been underachieving for years now and that this started at another school where he did the same things as the year before(I found out after that year) because they thought it would take away stress from him and build his self-esteem, accept it turned out that it only made his self-esteem lower( he thought he was stupid because he still did the same things he already mastered the previous year) and his fear of failing only grew from that moment on. Also on this school they have never challenged him, pushed him through his panic attacks which comes up when he needs to do new things. But my experience with this is that once he gets through this panic he is calm again and gets everything done flawless. Now Anthony also knows that when he puts on a temper or such he knows that his teacher doesn't push him and he is let of the hook and he is OK with that because he is fine by how it is right now. Everything is easy for him so why bother right? 

I also explained that I think his dyslexia is also a BIG part of his fear to fail. He can't spell, he can't write down what is in his head, he has no idea how to do that right so he is not answering the questions right , only short answers because he simply panics when he can't do it and gets frustrated. I told him that we are getting him his own laptop this x-mas and will put a programme on it for him so he can have help with his spelling. We also will enroll him in an on-line programme called typetopia where he will learn how to type blind and it is also for dyslectic kids. He can take his computer with him each day to school to work on it because at school they have computers and apparently the programme but no one is using it or knows how to use it....sigh. They will also start with teaching him the basic grammatical things for English instead of just words. He will be getting a day task to complete in the beginning but we will build this out to a week task or more then one. This way he learns how to plan and to finish things. In return we will talk with him about a rewarding system because it will be a lot of changes for him and for a child who hasn't been challenged for years it will be scary to get to a place were he needs to actually do things that might be difficult for him.

The lines with school will be short, updates each day by mail in the beginning.

I hope these changes will help him to grow the real potentials that are inside of him.

Corinnexxx 

Focus and tears

Focus: So I have been taking Ritalin for a few weeks now and I have to say I am more focused when I use it. I can focus longer and therefor get more done in a day which makes me very happy :)
I will have an appointment with my doctor this week to test my bloodpressure etc and I will probably am going to use concerta instead of ritalin for the future. It is the same medicine but it lasts 12 hours and ritalin lasts 4 hours. I have to say that in the first two weeks after 4 hours I felt the rebound effect but not anymore so i guess it is true that it is working good after two weeks.

Tears: Anthony will be going to high school next year and he had to make a test(NIO) to see where he is capable of going to. We got the test results on Friday and when I saw it I broke down and cried out of sadness and frustration. Anthony thought he did very badly but he did the opposite he did great, no better then great, he got HAVO advice, which is pretty high. The reason why i broke down was that I have for years been tellinghis teachers that they are not getting out of him what is inside of him, that he is capable of more then what they offer him, that he is not challenged and that he is kept lazy and that Anthony doesn't mind that at all. They never listened and now to see that I have been right all along is so painfull for me because even if he wanted to go to a normal HAVO class he couldn't because he is so far behind in everything. 

So just before he got the results I went to a school that is perfect for kids like Anthony that are behind with schoolthings and have learning problems like dyslexy and such. He could go there for one to 3 years and they will work with these kids hard to get them up to the same level as other kids so they can go to a normal school after one to 3 years and blend in with the rest without being different. The classes are small 15 kids max. So compared with 30 kids in a regualr school that is a big plus coming from a school with 9 kids in his class. Also a dyslexia coach in each class(halleluja!)

Sounds perfect right? well not so. They do not take kids with HAVO advice. TL is the highest class they have(one below HAVO). So now I have to go through a commission(and I am not so fond of commisions due to the horrible expreience I had with them last time) again to try to get Anthony in this TL class becuase a regular HAVO class even if it is a smaller class at a regular school is too big of a change for him and will not due. So today I will be calling Anthony's school to make an appointment because I have had it. No more doing nothing, playing on his DS and attending all these fun classes(technics, sports, cooking and drawing, etc, etc) but start challenging him, learning him new things and pushing him to do more, simply because he CAN! He told me that they started for the 3rd time the same English class(in 1,5 years time) and he was sick of it. It are only words and he is pretty good at English and just needs to learn more then just words. He is also not reading any books sinds he started school and he is dyslextic!!! Last year at the computer lessons they had they had to type a piece of text over from a piece of paper and who was finished could go online to do games. I mean come on!!! It is more like let's keep these kids entertaint and that is it. So frustrating because when you tell them you want more or tell them how you feel they always come up with excuses and not with change. well no more! I have had it and I want my son to learn things from now of on!

Corinnexxx

For the Love

Last September I went with my friend Florence to the USA to follow a workshop of a fellow photographer that I have been admiring for years, Barb Uil. The workshop blew me away and left me with so much inspiration(I will start sharing the pics I took of the workshop later this week on my photoblog). Barb now released a new E-Book(a pdf-file) that truly is an inspiration for proffesional photographers but truly a gift for those moms with cameras that would like to document their kids/family in the right way. Over 160 pages filled with ideas, inspiration but also lots of technical stuff we usually do not understand(and this is when we set our camera to automatic ;) ). She makes it look easy.....which it is! I am all inspired again and I am 100% going to use her ideas to document my family in another way.

And guess what?!

I am a contributor!!! I am so honored that she choose me to be in her book, I might have screamed a little when I saw it :)


So if you do not know what to ask Sinterklaas or Santa this year, ask this or give it to yourselve as a present. It will be a gift that last a lifetime, promise!!! (and if you buy it now you will get it at a lower price!)

You can go HERE to buy it. GO!

Corinnexxx

Tales of the scale - the loser edition

That is right, I am a loser, or at least that is how I feel lately. I gained weight. After coming back from Barcelona and America I let it slide and now I can't fit in hardly any of my new clothes anymore. LOSER! That is truly how I feel. Ashamed that I let it happen AGAIN! When I was so happy to get rid of it all. I never felt better. Now I look in the mirror and I feel fat again. Of course I only gained a few kilo's so that shouldn't make me fat but for me it feels like that. In the beginning when I gained I went with my old behavior and just eat more, completely out of control. Since Monday I made the switch in my head again, because I truly want to break the pattern within me with food. I knew this lesson was coming, did I truly learn something the past year or not? I hope I did. Therefor I am now back to eating healthy, no snacks, no sugar and low on the carbs. Now after 3 days I can see my belly get thinner again, as the carbs make you look swollen. I also have less cravings. I do not want to get back on the shakes and such because I simply need to make a healthy lifestyle work for me, no more crash diets for me. I will take it day by day and hope to lose my weight before the new year. I refuse to buy new clothes, REFUSE you hear me! 

Another thing that I made a decision in is that I am going to start with Ritalin tomorrow. So far I never used any medication for my ADHD. I always made things work for me with more planning, lists, etc. But somehow I am still too destracted, especially with my work. The result is that I am constantly busy with doing nothing or everything, but it feels so chaotic to me. I have too little time for my kids and family life, let alone some me-time. Focussing is hard for me and I like to have some time to relax a bit. So I have been doubting about this for so long now and today I called the doctor and he said I could start tomorrow. I am scared, but I truly hope it works.

Corinnexxx