Proof that our kids grow

These are two photos of the kids in front of the building at my work.
Left side 2005 . Right side 2006

Well, all of them have grown about " one stone" . .

Kids at daddy's work

Waiting for the train and in the train.

Another tradition is that the children accompany me to work.

They seem to like it. We left early and Jos accompanied us as well. We stayed for half a day which is just enough before they get too wild at work. They especially like the hot chocolate at my work, the restaurant with all the good foods and deserts and the games they can play at one of the empty computers at my work (most colleagues are free of course in this time)

Jos and Henny in front of the building. . .

Christmastime in Roosendaal

As tradition in the family at 24th of december we celebrated Christmas at our home. According to the Polish tradition Gosia served only non meat dishes (mostly fish or salads).

My brother Jos and my sister Marja and my father joined us. Luuc and Marina are in Malyasia at this time.

Part of the tradition is also to wish each other a Merry Christmas while breaking bread as you can see on the photo.






After the dinner the kids couldn't wait to unpack their gifts under the Christmastree. That was fun to see their excitement while unpacking.

Happy Holidays

We wish you all happy and healthy holidays with your friends and family.

Ewa Faligowska passed away

Yesterdayevening we heard the terrible news that our dear Polish friend Ewa passed away in the hospital of Szczecin.

Last month she told us that after a long time the doctors in Poland found out what was the cause of her health problems. Only last month the hospital could make the right diagnosis. She had a very rare disease called pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Her condition deteriorated very fast and last monday she passed away. We were shocked when we heard the news. We are all very sad to loose such a dear friend. She was such a kind and friendly person. We all loved her dearly and now she is gone at such an early age. She will be missed by many.

We wish her husband Michal , and son Grzegorz and her family all the strength in these very difficult times.

Sinterklaas

I can tell you a lot about the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas at the 5th of december wich is themain event for Dutch children

But this website explains it a lot better in English:
http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~erik/sint/sint.html

Anyway we had a good celebration. My sister Marja and my father were also present to see the kids unpacking the gifts. This year Sinterklaas had accompanied all the gifts with a funny poem that told the children something about themselves and about the gift they received.
They were all happy and content.

Robert discovered the bags with gifts upstairs

Birthday skating

In the afternoon of my birthday we went skating. We had gotten free tickets for a big skating event in the town Breda which is about 25 km away from roosendaal.

There were a lof of people there but the skating rink is really big so there was place for everyone.

We had fun together.