Your amazing reactions
It’s been overwhelming to see all your responses to the birth of our beloved Sebastian. Many, many thanks for all your lovely thoughts and comments that have been sent to us and posted as comments on my blog. It’s amazing to see people posting in English, French, Swedish, German and Dutch of course. Truly multinational. [...]
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Life changing times
Typically I write my blog three sometimes four times a day. Needless to say, I haven’t been able to keep up with this rate of productivity in the last 48 hours. Life has been completely overturned, in a very positive way. Sebastian is already taking centre place in our family. I’ve never seen a man [...]
A new member in our family
Life is wonderful. It’s synonymous with the universe, cosmos, heaven and the stars. It’s like being in another time and place, full of bliss and serenity. I have this beautiful little creature next to me, which I can’t phantom having been part of creating and giving birth to. He is right now laying next to [...]
It’s a boy!
Sebastian Maximilian Alexander Waldau-te Brake Born February 17, 2009, 13.13 hour
Contractions?
It’s 5.35 and so far haven’t got any sleep. Contractions started around 1.30 AM, although I’m not really sure they are contractions. More like a heavy pain in my back and abdomen. Eventually, after exhausting Reinout with my moaning I went downstairs. He is now sleeping like a lamb…God I envy him! In some way [...]
First mission accomplished
They say women go through the nesting syndrome in her last few weeks of pregnancy. I don’t think I really had that, largely because of my blog and the development of onlinesalsa.com. These two babies of mine provided much needed distraction. Instead I let the cleaning to our cleaning lady, and frankly had to accept [...]
A long journey coming to an end
It’s a very strange period, like being in twilight zone. For every day that goes by I am getting closer to my goal, but still no sign. It makes things a little difficult to plan for, like my life is on hold. Fortunately I had a message on my voicemail from my midwife. Tomorrow I [...]
A shadow of doubt
Yesterday, reading the account on the Bush years, brought back some of my own working memories, albeit on a completely different scale. For most parts I’ve had the fortune of working with level headed and inspirational people. My first real working experience, which kick started my career in project management, came from people believing in [...]
Hard Candy
I love long walks in the forest, clearing my head from all the noise, sound bites, impressions, information….all the things our society is throwing at us in constant stream. It was just me, Reinout and Buddy as Victoria and Cecile are away for the weekend. The first 10 minutes was glorious, the fresh air hitting [...]
On the topic of Problems
The last comment got me thinking….about problems. We all got them, big and small. And often they seem big, under the loupe of a magnifying glass. They say hindsight is an exact science. And in the light of day, it becomes evident what we should have done. How our problems should have been resolved. But [...]
