A weekend in the east
Third week of September is one of the last weekends that are potentially "free" of other appointments: as of the end of September/start October there is weekly scouting activities in the agenda and potentially judo tournaments. So we had a "free weekend" and I insisted to spend as much as possible together in the east of Belgium as a family. Unfortunately Jan had already an appointment on Friday evening and Beertje also had a birthday party to attend. (Gosh, the stream of birthday parties at that age is daunting!). But I insisted. I really like slow mornings without packing & drives and if we only left on Saturday morning, we'd arrive around noon and in my opinion I had lost too much time already. So I insisted and drove up with the children and Rodin on Friday evening just before bedtime. It has the advantage that all traffic jams around Liege are gone by then. We arrived and simply got into our pyjama's and were ready for bed. The next mor...