Wild West

Exciting night! We had a shoot out in front of our door!

It appeared to be a machine gun shooting

Mees and me where lying together in the big bed only 6 meters away

We thought it was fireworks...

Look at http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/21187887/__Dode_bij_schietpartijen_A_dam__.html

The second time in my life I'm confronted with a gun shooting!

My health:

My body is holding fluids due to a high blood pressure in my lungs

Problem areas are my feet and behind my lungs

Resulting in really short breath and appreciating my Uggs more and more

Foutje, bedankt!

Parool, zaterdag 22 december 2012

The Maya's made a wrong prediction

The world still exists

Mijn foutje leidde wel tot een ziekte

Doomsday

It's Friday 21st of December 02.50 uur

Still it's not the end of the world

Bummer! I thought all my problems would be solved.

We would all go down together!!!

But you never know, still 21 hours to go...

O, Denneboom

HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY!!!

Love this time of year

Love my Christmas tree

A story with almost every Christmas ornament hanging in the tree

Tomorrow Kik and Mees will buy their ornaments for this year

Me and my health;

My stupid left lung is not working as it should

At home I now have 24/7 oxygen

My view

Our weekend was great. 

It was a culinary weekend.

1st evening.... Cuichine was very nice

Saturday we had brunch in Antwerp and did some Christmas shopping

2nd evening we dined at Kint&Co

And to finish it on sunday we had a Slow Food Lunch at Kint&Co

In between we were at the house sitting in front of the fire place 

So this was my view during all the diners

Nice view

The only bummer this weekend was that I had some new pains

So while we waited in hospital yesterday

I had the same nice view: this handsome guy

We were at AVL all day, from 10 to 5

No chemo because the doctors wanted to know where the pains came from

So all day long tests, waiting, waiting, talks, waiting, waiting, treatments

Results:

too much blood pressure in my lungs

So they gave me another pill

Burn baby burn

Esther burned one in Maastricht

Away

Yesterday afternoon we already sat at the fireplace at Jacq's and DJ's country house.

Went to a really nice restaurant in Antwerp, "Cuichine", eating fried soft shell crab, yummie

Woke up with the sun on the fields (now gone...)

It's nice to be away with the two of us

It gives us a little bit of peace of mind

Feeling weird

Strange days

Are it the long dark days before christmas?

I feel really strange

How do you go on living with "strange"

I told a friend that it feels like a "vacuum"

I try to go out

Today a walk in the park and "appeltaart" at the Espresso Fabriek

Tomorrow with Ruud to Zeeuws Vlaanderen. Time together!

♫♫ The hills are alive ♫♫

Just in Dutch:

Wie heeft de gouden tip?

Ik wil heel graag met de kinderen, kan buiten schoolvakantie's om, naar een zeer fijn familiehotel (of heeft iemand nog een andere accommodatie in gedachten) in de bergen.

Mijn wensen lijstje is:

Niet belachelijk duur (liever budget)

klein ski gebied, overzichtelijk

Familiehotel incl. diner en ontbijt aan de piste

Ik wil met vliegtuig en dan maximaal 1 uur in auto tot hotel

Ik kan namelijk niet veel dus voor mij moet het makkelijk bereikbaar te zijn, fijn naar mijn kinderen kunnen kijken, genieten van de bergen

And some candles can't hurt

A dear friend, Jacqueline, in China

Marieke in Teipei

Bring them on!

Heaven

"Dessert Heavenly Mud"

Dining out in our own home

Jet & Jan cooked us a dinner. And stayed to eat it.

Weather Alarm

Yesterday no "Weather Alarm" in Amsterdam

Went for a realy nice walk with Doet and the dogs

Sun, snow, dogs and talk

What else can one want?

I'm feeling strange

Could it be the long, dark, days before Christmas?

First snow

Can you see it?

We went out around midnight

First snow this season

Shall we wake up the kids

They would love it!

Nope, We lett the dogs out and now to bed!

A little sunshine

Mom was here to spend some time. I took the chance to go out with her and the dogs

We had crispy cold sunshine

Hadn't been out of the house in two weeks so it was time.

Some sweet love from the kitchen

Ruud made us yesterday

Guinea fowl (parelhoentje) in pancetta with fennel and tagliatelle....yummie

Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen

My favourite three

"Sinterklaas" in The Netherlands

The start of a warm time, one of my favourites

Next weekend all my beautiful decorations will find their place in the christmas tree

Something to look forward to

Today I heard I will change my chemo from 2 weeks up and 1 week free to chemo every week!

Every monday!

So no christmas holidays for me. 

But hopefully something that works.....

Morfine addict

Thursday late afternoon AVL thought I could go home again

I had my own morfine pump

"Thuiszorg" was arranged

Happy to go

Have to get used to the bag hanging day and night on my hips

With a tube going into my arm

It is so really sick

It shows