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 [...]

Things are rarely what they seem. And yet we keep on getting first impressions and sticking to those. What happened to thinking out-of-the-box? No, predisposition towards assumptions and believing that our own belief system is  absolute right and flawless keep prevailing. It got me thinking lately of my own actions and where the responsibility truly [...]

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 [...]

Arrggh…it’s one of those evenings when everything is caving in. My husband is running around like an ADHD afflicted on steroids and Sebastian is doing his best to immitate (and innovate….R’s motto) his father’s behaviour. To top it all off Victoria is blowing up ballons, only to stomp them out. The dogs are following in [...]

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 [...]

I’m really not a Valentine fan. Along with the naff gifts and cards proclaiming eternal love, one has to find a suitable restaurant only to be surrounded by other couples in an over-crowded space, most likely sharing the same sentiments. Thank God I ended up with a 24 hour stomach bug and spent the day [...]

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 am sitting at my computer, and for some obscure reason, (which I have forgotten now as the aftermath totally eclipsed the original idea), I decided to Google my husbands name. As Google is becoming more and more intelligent, it is propting some different search combinations, which apparently has a relatively high search volume. It [...]

I’m so happy, diet is finally working! I’m down almost 2 kg’s and I can get into my semi-skinny jeans again. But no gain without pain, and the dark side is that I am more moody than ever. Yes, what to expect being limited to a 1000 kcal a day. I almost cancelled our forthcoming [...]

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 [...]