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

Some weekends are good. Others are just excellent! This weekend certainly belonged to the latter. It’s been so realxing, no work, pleanty of sleep and just spending time with the family. What more can a girl ask for? In the spirit of a blissful weekend I decided to get some bathbombs at Lush for a [...]

Finally home after a wet and cold walk through town. Victoria and I have been on the hunt for Easter decoration but to our dismay most of it was already gone. In the end we managed to salvage some odd coloured left overs for our Easter tree which will be decorated tonight.  Highlight of the [...]

When you think you have everything under control, you realise soon enough you don’t. It’s what they call Murphy’s Law -  in other words, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As I was submitting my morning blog entry and was just about to get on with some work I got a call from [...]

I am suppose to work on my project and instead I find myself in the midst of a family feud. It starts off with warning bells. Where is Victoria? It is 4 pm and still no sight of my little girl. I call her little although she will be turning 11 in less than two [...]

Today has been somewhat of a pampering day for me. First gym, then an hours mid-day sleep (which is a first!) followed by an appointment for deep tissue massage for legs, butt and stomach at Nouvelle Cosmetique. It’s called LPG or Endermologie. The results are suppose to be fantastic for cellulites,  slimming and toning, which [...]

My hormones are playing games with me. Although I slept, with interruptions, for 7 hours, I till feel exhausted. By 1 o ‘clock Victoria came home. She suggested us going to the Bagel Bar. I had earlier agreed to making Wednesday afternoons our day. A day for lunching and shopping in town. But with a [...]

Life in our family started just like any other typical Tuesday morning. Victoria came in to wake up Reinout. Her bike is broken and even though this has been a fact for a few days now, we still haven’t got around to take it to the repair shop. Perhaps because the last time the owner [...]

Yesterday, after finishing a document I was reading in preparation for a meeting today, I went on to read the news. My mind was soon enough engrossed in a very sad article of a little two year old girl who was beaten by her mother and stepfather to death. In fact I remember the case [...]

My life is not exactly glamorous, but compared to last night’s ordeal, a future reminiscence of what’s in store, it seems down right fabulous. Forget Chanel bags, Christian Louboutin shoes and celebrity parties when you can have a good night’s sleep. The choice is easy, right? In our normal fashion we went to bed somewhere [...]

There are times, when my relationship with Victoria mostly resembles that of an older sister to her 4 year younger sibling. In many ways it’s our similarities that are the cause of our small, often pointless discussions, that has the tendency to explode into mega arguments frequently ending in high pitch screams, exchange of insults [...]