‘When I came downstairs, to my astonishment, the room was full of neighbors’

How do those little mutts manage to achieve maximum effect when their mother is out of the room for three seconds. Anouk knows the best about it.

Anouk (39), mother of Elsa (9) and Emma (7):

“Last summer I took a nap after a night shift. My husband was doing odd jobs in the attic, coloring our daughters. An hour later, when I came downstairs rather disheveled, to my amazement the room was full of neighbors. There were drawings all over the walls and on the table was a tray of lemonade and biscuits. The neighbors nodded kindly at me, “How cute and what a great idea.”

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Elsa and Emma first appeared to have made all kinds of artful creations, when notes were handed out in the neighborhood with the announcement that an exhibition was being organized in the house and then invited half the neighborhood for coffee and cake. The next day I just managed to intercept my youngest with notes in her hand that read something like: ‘Come everyone, tomorrow morning half past nine, disco with us.’”

This article is in Kek Mama 04-2022.

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