Oops, I had not intended to send the e-mail notification for this post, and hope you don’t mind all our silly gift opening photo’s.

We had a wonderful Christmas with our good friend Albert.

We are very happy that we finally have a stair lift so that Rob can be upstairs. It’s great to be able to use our whole house again and sleep in our own bed. Things are finally getting back to normal again. It was a lot of bureaucracy to arrange, […]

We just returned back after a wonderful vacation in Cyprus. We stayed in Polis, near where Aphrodite was born from the sea. We really did not flirt with her much, because our biggest goal was to chill out and not do much. Rob was really able to enjoy the swimming […]

We just couldn’t resit posting a video of Rob walking. He did this about 7 times on Friday, both forward and backwards. Although Rob is doing this from the power within himself, he is also being helped tremendously by his team. Not least of which is Werner de Haan his […]

We are so happy to tell all of you that today Rob took his first steps walking. We really think this is the start of a whole new era for Rob. Now that he can make the walking motions he should be able to build on them — it’s a […]

I have been slow to update our blog, but just put a few postings up — check out our Archives to read more…. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~Don Marquis

We had a wonderful time celebrating our wedding anniversary together on Saturday. We had thought about going away somewhere, but then had what I think was a better idea, and a bit of a surprise for Rob. Rob had not been upstairs at our house since everything happened last summer […]

Recently  the physio terapist said it could take some time before Rob can take steps walking. We are a bit disappointed, but on the other hand, are also optimistic he can do it before too long. Rob has started with a “coach” named Patrick Veenhoff from Insightz, that we are […]

We have been busy with many things. Rob’s father Ger has visited and we made a very good start to painting the house. We have also had the help of our neighbour Bert, and slowly we are making progress, despite a lot of rain that delays things. We also celebrated […]

Here are some photo’s of the Round the Island Race Team — Skipper Mick and Crew Ger. The race did not go exactly as planned, because the rudder broke off, but they had a wonderful time.  They also look very sporty in their crew t-shirts that Anne made. Also a […]

Rob received a new brace today to help give him support in walking to cross a new bridge. He took some first steps, and we are very hopeful that with a lot of practice, he will get there. Click here to see the video. Many thanks to Dr. Sheepstra, Rob’s […]

We had a wonderful time at the Oerol theatre festival on the Dutch island of Terschelling. The atmosphere was great, and Rob could meet some of his colleagues and enjoy what he missed last year when this all happened. It was very poignant to be there and I’m really proud […]

It’s hard to believe that it has been a year now. Today is the day that Rob had his first surgery and our world tipped over in strange and unusual ways. Overall, although difficult, we are both enjoying life more than ever before. A message from Rob: It’s not all […]

We are happy that our brother-in-law Mick is now using our boat in England with the whole family and will race her at the 2010 Round the Island Race on the 19th of June (next week). Here is some information, which you can also see under “The boat” with more […]

We have had a lot of fun doing many small things recently. The pictures below (from bottom to top) are of a nice visit we had with Ger (Rob’s Dad) in Eindhoven in May when they went to a Philip Glass concert. As you can see, Jansen also came along […]

We have had a lot of nice visiting with Dave and Ruth (Ellyn’s parents) from Chicago and  Ger (Rob’s father).  We mostly enjoyed just hanging out around the house and doing small projects in and around the house. It was really nice just to all be together and catch up […]

We had a wonderful time at Rob’s Welcome Home Party. Although it was delayed, it could not have been more fun. We are so happy that so many friends could join in, and it really was a memorable afternoon. We would like to thank all of you who came, and […]