Parabéns mamã!



Parabéns mamã!

Muitos anos bem dispostos!

You rock!

Keep fabulous!   Cheers!!

50 lived well

I thank you Maria da Luz e Camilo, my parents, for the depth of your love, and for holdind me in high regard.
Thank you for helping me define my core, develop a strong sense of self, and showing me how to live up to it.
Thank you for teaching me how to bring meaning into the otherwise trivial daily actions.
Thank you for providing a firm emotional background from where I fearless and confident can face the world and embrace life as it comes.

I thank you my sisters, my closest companions in life, for with the strength of your caracters and your bold honesty, reducing my self importance to zero.

I thank you my friends, for your trust and support, and for allowing me to devide my sorrows and to multiply my joys.

I thank you Hans, my husband, for coping with my imperfections every day and for inspiring me to become a better person.

I thank you, Camila and Melissa, my dear children, for loving me no matter what.

                                    A huge lot to celebrate!       Let's do it!!         Cheers!!!

Parabens! Gefeliciteerd! Congratulations!

Today is a manifold Good Friday: three generations Matos celebrate their birthdays, all born on the 6th April. Many congratulations to Ivone ("seeing Sarah"), and many congratulations to Maria da Luz - both young forever and sharing their birthday with their mother and grandmother! Let the champagne flow on this celebrate day ...

Counting sheep

Camila went with Freek on a 20 km hike in Friesland (Frisia - a northern province in The Netherlands). And on their way back they missed train and got lost in Workum (4,000 inhabitants ...). Some pictures (nice weather and counting sheep):

Jessica for secretary JCV elections 2012

Jessica for secretary JCV elections 2012 from Mirthe M on Vimeo.

Cheers, Hans!

Wonderful day: Hans is "up and running"! Well... not quite yet, but he is back to work and will be better soon.
Let's keep the spirits up, cheers voor Hans!

Back in town

2012, March 8th. It's Holi, the festival of colours!
Last year we had the girls with us, it was "spring breack" in the USA. They celebrated it with Kunal and his friends, Melissa had more prawns than she could take, and it was impossible to recover Camila's clothes.
This year I decided to fly back 'home' earlier and alone, (leaving the others celebrating Holi and whatever else they might wish), after my well savoured break in Goa. Enough diversion for now!...



Just in time! Hans picked me up moving a litle funny. The next day he was confined to bed, giving his back the necessary rest after a visit to his orthopedist!!! Intuition?...
Big relief: I am not the cause of this disconfort!... ;) And yes, Hans has been "a good boy!", as the doc advised on a personal note. The nurse is pleased, sir!