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

I’ve just finished off a great Saturday evening with good food (made a lean chicken with some baked tomatoes, garlic and apples), wine and a few movies in the DVD player. I really haven’t done much today. The groceries came very late so I didn’t get out of the house until after two. I met [...]

I woke up sometime after 3 am, from gale winds bashing against the window panes. Knowing that Victoria had a 6 km bike ride to school in this weather, I decided to call a cab for her in the morning. But after googling for taxi’s and calling in the middle of the night, my rhythm [...]

I haven’t been very good with updating this blog lately…tisk tisk. And I can’t really blame it on being busy either, so no excuses really. But I shall attempt on a small update. Last week Thursday we left for Chateau St. Gerlach for a long weekend break. It was super cold but lovely going on [...]

I’m happy to report I have my belowed Mac back. iPad’s in all honor but as they say the Classics never go out of style. Writing a word document feels like  a feast, and having access to my Tweetdeck and a whole range of other applications is fantastic. Not to mention Flash! I can pick [...]

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 [...]

This was suppose to be our Christmas Tree shopping evening. We’ve tried to get a tree twice without success and my husband promised, in a final attempt, to come by the house at 3 pm to pick me up. Needless to say 3pm went by, and so did 4 pm. At 6 pm Reinout called [...]

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 [...]

I am on way to the gym. It’s late morning and au contraire to most Monday’s I don’t give a damn about neither work and obligations, nor worries… As I walk the last metres, just having said goodbye to Reinout before reaching the gym, I realise it’s a rather rare occasion. Whereas Monday’s used to [...]