Fracas Noir || Susanne Waldau - te Brake I swear to tell the truth as I know it…

It’s Sebastian’s birthday! He’s one year old! Time flies. We celebrated this morning with a couple of presents; one water trumpet and a really cool retro rocket car. Needless to say he loves the latter. reinout came back with a whole load of cakes which we will devour on this afternoon. Later tonight we are [...]

Just came home from my salsa lesson. It went soooo well! I really feel I have improved my level, since I started taking private classes with Sederick and I’m really happy about that. I was in a great mood when I came home, and was greeted by my family decorating for Sebastian’t birthday tomorrow. It’s [...]

My husband is in an excellent mood! Needless to say it makes me very happy too! I don’t know if it’s because of a clean house, a clean admin or a clean conscious. Perhaps it’s all three. My husband is, what you could call, a periodic administrator. Just like the periodic alcoholic abstaining from alcohol, [...]

Weekend didn’t really turn out as anticipated. It rarely does! Sebastian was not really well so we decided against going to MJ birthday’s party. Instead we spent the evening at home. I was so tired and fell asleep at 9 pm, only to wake up 12 hours later. Yesterday I didn’t do much else than [...]

I’m in bed, with a glass of Champagne (a habit I have adopted as of late to end my day with), browsing through my husband’s picture on flickr. It brings back so many good memories, especially the ones of us on holiday, fooling around like little kids on a beach. We are like children, all [...]

I was in a meeting when the phone went off. It was Victoria, but as I was in the middle of a conversation, I turned off the phone. 2 minutes later a colleague comes up with the land line phone. A man, whose voice I vaguely recognise, claims to work for the tax authorities and [...]

Directly live from Casa Waldau - te Brake, location livingroom
Susanne is sitting at the dining room table working. Her husband is in his chair watching GhostWhisperer.
During some exciting moment, where the lead character talks to a ghost, a loud and clear fart echoes throughout the room.
Susanne bursts out: OMG! That’s discussing. You’re disturbing my creativity!
Her [...]

Saturday didn’t turn out bad at all. One would have thought with a blog post as my last, that World War III had broken out in the Waldau – te Brake mansion, but peace prevailed. I said my goodbyes and went into town on my own. It was cold, snowy, but my spirit was on [...]

I’m home just before 7. With glossy mag under one arm and my Burberry bag doubling as my laptop case, I’m ringing the door. It’s too cold to start looking for keys which are deep under cover, underneath tissues, sunglasses, pens and other parafanelia rattling around. Reinout opens the door. He’s holding Sebastian and I [...]

Dinner at Stempels in Haarlem: Instead of a starter & main course,
we went gready and ordered 6 starters between us

Food always puts a big smile on my face

New Year Couple

Sebastian was exploring the premises

The most beautiful Christmas tree in Haarlem - 7 metres tall!

A rare moment: Reinout is smiling on camera!

I love [...]