Welcome to 2013. Last week we celebrated New Year's at my friends place, with good food, wine and fireworks, made long walks by the river, visited Anton's greatgrandmother, slept a lot, ate well and flew back home to Berlin.

The holidays were a beautiful but very stressful time - with so much family and friends wanting to see Anton for the first time. He's drowning in toys and stuffed animals now and a pro in staying relaxed while his parents were close to nervous breakdowns. We'll need to learn to say no eventually. Yet being home was wonderful, with passionate grandparents around and my little darling siblings caring for my baby. I gained at least 1.000.000 kilograms and will need to start a serious post-baby-and-post-holiday-diet soon.