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I'm Nadine. Mother to Monkey (3) and his sister Roo (1). Married to my wonderful FreezeM. I am forever 29, don't let my birthdate fool you. I work a part time PR job. Love being at home with my children, I am very liberal, love to read, cook and write. I'm critical and don't shy away from the unbeaten path.




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September 13, 2003

It's fall so let's make a U-Turn!

Decisions of our governement seem to change by season. While our Health minister decided in May that public smoking should be banned, now, nearly 5 months later, he dedides different. The restaurant and catering industry managed to get a 180-degree turn on national health policy. Public smoking won't be banned, keeping all of us in clouds of smoke in restaurants & bars.

The reason of this big U-turn?? Well, the restaurant business convinced our government that people won't go out to dinner & drinks anymore. And with that, thousands of jobs will dissapear. WTF????

In the majority of civilized country's this law can work and in Holland it can't??? As if people will not go eat in restaurants because they can't smoke in there.

Posted at 11:24 AM


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I hate smoke in restaurant! I was planning to go out more as soon as the smoking ban would become active. I was already saving money to spent in the restaurants! Now i guess i'll just spent it on something else.... hmmm... wait a minute. The majority doesn't smoke... wouldn't a ban increase sales in restaurants and create more jobs? Maybe? We'll never know...

Posted by: FreezeM at September 13, 2003 11:30 AM

In our town, out of dozens there is only one restaurant which allows smoking. One by one they "changed" and it is so much nicer. Lost business? Definitely not.

Posted by: Philip at September 13, 2003 4:54 PM












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Did you know your baby or young toddler can "speak" to you even when (s)he hasn't learned the ability to speak yet? I found out through the blog of Chris that sign language is a GREAT way to enable your young child to communicate with you.

Our 12 month old little Roo knows a few signs already "done" (with eating), "more" (food or drink) and "book/ reading". It was a great succes with our toddler Monkey (now 3, doesn't stop talking but stopped using signs) and we already have so much fun with Roo.

We used this book:

But there are more tools that help you

Read more on the subject; here.