I am educated as a nurse and Health visitor in Denmark. Retired, I want to share my stored up knowledge on baby care as of how to succeed. I also want to help the parents to cope with the amount of work and to feel that they manage well. I enjoy sharing with you other aspects of my life too.
Day 5 in the writing course 101 I will combine with my Friday Devotional Event. From the Old Testament Psalm 126:5 They who sow in tears shall reap in joy and singing That verse has often given me hope and confidence to continue the good fight whatever circumstance I have been in. You focus on the result, not the difficulties […]
For my story about my relation to the huge Swedish furniture concern I wanted to find a special picture from an IKEA catalog from 1969. On the front page was a picture of a ship’s couch. The wooden shelves underneath the mattress was painted in a bright red shiny color and the mattress was covered with navy blue thick cotton material. […]
I have had many homes, but as the years pass by I feel more and more relaxed in my home
As a response to today´s assignment on the new WordPress writing 101 course DAY 2: Write a List, For many years as a Health Visitor I had a large district full of road names. The families I visited lived in that area. Sometimes I would call those in the district that I hadn’t heard from for a long time. Some were doing good and […]
My fellow blogger Yulia a from the blog Tiny Expats has this blogging event and I would like to take part in that event. Our libraries are totally different today. I remember libraries as very silent places with rows of bookshelves and small boxes for the small children. I liked very much to walk around and look at the titles as a child and young person. […]
I am fascinated by the ways some people have been able to survive hardships without losing their minds
In this post I will include the testimony of Elfriide Kulgver. Elfriide Kulgver was born in Estonia (1909 – 1992). Like so many other people in the Baltic countries she and her family was deported by the Soviets on the 14 of June 1941 without any notice. (Post number one and post number two and post number three are linked here). In […]
Getting to know the bloggers' personalities is very valuable for me and I regard them as good friends
I regret that I went to work to get bread and soup and let Jyri be in the ward of others'. He still might have died, but I could have been with him his last days. This is one of the horrible things of life that you voluntarily do things that you later regret without being able to change anything
How do you manage life when your husband has disappeared and your two toddlers have died of malnutrition and infections?
From one Heart to Another 