Happy New Year! Petra and I wish you a year of growth in faith and God’s blessing at God’s timely moments!

We did have an easy and quiet evening at home… proof of that is the fact that I’m blogging at 1:10am on January 1st. Unfortunately, Petra was a bit ill (for the 3rd New Year’s eve in a row!) and we didn’t have many other options at hand. So now she’s asleep and I’m back to everyday life. But at least the firework was worth seeing from the balcony. They estimated that some 80mil. EUR (last year’s was ~65mil.) were spent on it this year in the Netherlands - for that money it better be good.

As promised, here come two shots from the Christmas celebration at our church in Rotterdam:

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Well, have a Happy New Year! I’m off to an episode of TopGear…

Dear friends,

Happy New Year! As for Christmas - I think we ought to always celebrate Jesus’ coming daily, so - be thankful and rejoice today because He came to save us!

Here’s what’s new since the last update (which I don’t even remember when it was…):

Petra and I managed to get some break. Not much, but we were still able to stay home and do just little things we enjoy. I’ve been taking quite a few photos (but more on that later), while Petra has been resting, cooking, helping out her parents. She was very sick at Christmas (for 2 days), but now she’s all fine. And he school & work don’t start till two days from now. She needed that rest.

We didn’t go anywhere for Christmas/New Year’s. The plan was initially to escape somewhere quiet (or not so quiet) for a weekend or so, but we figured it will still be quite expensive, then she got sick, the bank transfers were delayed around the holidays… So we spent both holidays at home with her parents - nice and easy (see some photos below). Perhaps the escape experience will occur some other time. Read more…