Farewell Babyborn

Dear family and friends, and vague acquaintances. We are gathered here today, to say our final farewell to Babyborn. Despite a very clear user manual, someone found it necessary to give Babyborn a bubble bath. Babyborn was a loner, and sometimes months went without any word from her. But Babyborn wasn’t a natural loner, she…

Love is not blind

My eldest daughter, Maartje, had been talking about it for months: ‘Mommy, when New Moon is released we’ll go and see it, won’t we?’ Flattered that my fourteen year old daughter still wanted to be seen with me at the movies I readily replied: ‘Of course we will.’ For those few who háven’t heard about…