2010 retrospect

G'day,

I finally made some time to do a blog entry of my own. As I have to maintain Otto's blog as first priority my own blog became less of a priority...

This time its easy to name the best thing that happened during the last year:

Otto Herman August Vinhage, born 11.41 am on 9.12.2010 at the Mercy Hospital, Heidelberg, Australia, 4220g and 55cm.

I can safely say that Otto's birth was the most intense experience of my life. Around five in the morning I was thinking "yeah, that's about enough now, can't we just have Otto now so I can get some sleep" which was not the most heroic thought considering that Josara was doing the actual labouring and I was just standing around handing Josara cold water and getting my hands squashed. I confess that around that time I did feel a certain envy of bygone generations of fathers and the fact that my own father went fishing while I was born seemed quite attractive but that moment of weakness passed. I am truly awed by having witnessed Otto's birth and I am proud that I was able to support my wife by being there.

Well, since Otto is home, sleep became a rare commodity. Otto demands feeding every three to three and a half hours. Until now I've thought there is no downside to having breasts but now I know that if you are the one with the breasts your sleep is REALLY limited. I mean, I can actually sleep 8 hours in a row if Josara lets me but she has to get the tits out every couple of hours.

I was wondering before Otto arrived, if the fact that my wife's breasts are now put to a different use than my entertainment would have an impact on my view towards breasts in general and I'm happy to report that this is not the case. My general love for breasts has only increased as they are not just enjoyable but also useful.

What else has happened? Ah, the in-laws have visited us...they came a week before Otto's estimated time of arrival and had to cancel their flight back because Otto only arrived on the day they were due to fly back. It was nice having them over and they can come back any time they like. We all learned some interesting facts like that if you don't tell you Dutch bank that you are going on a holiday and you dare to use your credit card in Australia they block your account due to "suspicious activity". That's a handy feature to have in a credit card...having some idiot in a bank deciding that a certain account activity is "suspicious"...if my bank would do that to me they'd have one customer less...

Christmas came and went like every year. I guess the year in which I can safely ignore it as far as possible are limited now because probably from next year on Otto will have a say in it. Josara's sister was here over Christmas and that was also quite nice to have her here.