Fracas Noir – Susanne Waldau – te Brake ~ for better or worse

When Reinout mentioned the upcoming GDC conference as a mean to an end to get a few days of holiday, it seemed like an excellent idea. Especially since it’s almost a year since our last holiday. The departure was less than ideal though. Reinout had a lot to prepare and a new project that recently [...]

It’s Sebastian’s birthday and naturally it doesn’t go unnoticed. At 8 o’clock we started the celebration with loads of ballons and hidden presents in Sebastian’s room. He loves cars and trains, so we got him a Thomas the Train set with tracks and train carriages, as well as some small mini cars. It was so [...]

It’s Sebastian’s birthday tomorrow. It’s amazing our little boy is becoming 2! Life is known to be taking the fastlane, but this fast? I can recall the day he was born as it was yesterday. And the days and weeks that followed. It was so surreal – a creation of our own. So small, yet [...]

As Reinout is off on a business trip to Hamburg, Victoria and I are treating ourselves to something really special – crayfish! After Two kg’s of shellfish washed down with Champagne, we are now relaxing with 3 episodes of Criminal Minds ahead of us Crayfish is something very Swedish typically devoured in August This is [...]

I’ve been terribly bad at updating my blog and taking family pictures. But here comes an update over the last weeks. Mental note that there will be a change… Sx An interest for fashion runs in the family A few weeks ago we had dinner at Babbels, a local restaurant in Haarlem We took the [...]

It looks like we are up for a white Christmas. It’s cold and snowy and Reinout and I just came back from taking Sebastian out for a late night walk with his sleigh. Recently I got my mother’s old fox fur jacket shortened for a modern look and it looks great. It’s super warm too! [...]

It’s to a snow covered Haarlem that I woke up to. It started in the afternoon as I was enjoying Victoria’s school’s Christmas performance. The kids were really sweet, singing christmas carrols mixed with more contemporary songs and poems. As I was leaving the school, a thin layer of snow had begun to cover the [...]

When the Year End is closing in and the New is in close range, it’s natural to start thinking  of what has been, what might have been, and what is in store. I can only remember a few years like this one, where I was glad to see the year behind me. The first such [...]

Victoria came with the excellent idea of cooking tonight. I set aside my ascetic diet where carbs are banned (I haven’t been too strict in the last week admittedly). Vic cooked up an excellent spaghetti carbonara which the family was impressed of, Sebastian included! Now we are all stationed on the couch waiting for A [...]

Victoria is acting photographer here T-shirt from Kova & T, Jacket by Cavallaro Napoli…. Jeans from Citizen of Humanity, and priceless shoes by Gucci