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About Us
We met each other
at an Art-Gallery eight years ago. Cees is the brother of my
friend Ricky which had her
exposition at the Gallery at that moment. It was love straight away.
We married in 1999 and our son was born one year later in
2000. Boudewijn was for both of us our first child.
During his study
to become a medical doctor, Cees took a
year off and went to America
( California) to practice
his
hobby scuba-diving. He got in contact with the movie industry and
they asked him
to assist as an underwater technician/help during the production of the
film ‘’The
Deep”. The set was outside the US
near the Island of Bermuda.
He also did some other work for them, until his Father suggested that
he come back home, to finish his study and
become
a doctor. This was in the mid 70’s. So Cees returned to Holland,
got his doctors degree and worked as a forensic doctor for the Dutch
government.
After that he specialized and started his own business. (two private
clinics) After seven years he sold his company, because he wanted
to
do something else.
One sabbatical
year later, he became medical director of an US
–Multinational- Occupational Health department. He spent many
years in the US
(New Jersey) and got his
MBA
degree at one of the finest American Universities. After seven
years he decided to start a new consultancy
business back in Holland.
At this
moment he works three days a week and spends quite some time with our
son
Boudewijn. He is a wonderful, caring father.
Henriette started
her carrier at the Municipal Government
of Amsterdam.
She worked as a secretary at the department of ethnic integration.
After 5
years she started studying again at the University
of Amsterdam and became a
certified
dental hygienist. She worked many years in her own practice, and slowly
started
to employ some colleagues.
Now she is
managing her own clinic three mornings a
week allowing her business
manager to run her clinic on a daily basis. She has plenty of time to
practice
her passion : making sculptures at home in her
own studio. Boudewijn gets to spend a lot of time with
Henriette and
she is always available to pick him up from school.
Every day she
plays with him, making the house cozy looking.
You will often find them in the nearby Zoo, which also has a big
playground for
children. She loves to
organize his birthday parties for him and the
kids from the neighborhood. Swimming in the
kids pool with Boudewijn every Wednesday
afternoon is also on the calendar of fun weekly events.
She can’t
wait become a mommy of two children and share her
love with both and do nice things with them together, feeling like one
big
family, where our love definitely will be equal for both of hem.
Boudewijn
and his
best friends Lucas & his Mamma.
Bulgaria
Orphanages
We both
have had
the luck to help and support three
orphanages in Bulgaria.
Last year we were down there bringing toys
and medicines. It was almost shocking to see those
lonely little
children in such poor and emotionally deprived situations, not having a
loving
family taking care of them..
Unfortunately the law does not let us adopt from this country, which is
extremely poor. We got in contact with these orphanages through the
church, who
asked us to help, so of course we did. We love and care so much for
children
and long to be able to adopt.
We
have thought a
great deal about the country from which we
would adopt. It seems very important to us that we should be able to
build a
relationship with the child’s country of origin. Because of
our
close relations with America
and your society we chose your country
as the best country for adoption. We speak English
and always felt at home in the USA.
With this
knowledge, and with our positive attitude towards
the USA,
we can
build a “bridge” for our new child to it’s country of
origin. As soon as they
are old enough, we definitely will travel together to America.
About Boudewijn
Boudewijn is a very
creative, sensitive and sweet boy. He
laughs a lot and is very social. He is doing fine in school, although
he is
still very playful. In our garden he
has his own wooden shack on poles which he
calls his “crow nest” . Next to it he has two swings, a hop
and a sandbox. So,
it is no surprise that a lot of the neighbor kids will play in his
garden. The
kids call him “Buffy”. Boudewijn
loves to
draw, sing, but most of all climbing
trees, like a monkey. He is what you call a “fun” kid.
As we live pretty
close to the Zoo we have a family
subscription so almost once a week we go and have a look at the baby
tigers and
how they grow up. We think he will be a wonderful big brother and share
all his
books and toys eagerly. He can’t
wait
having a brother or sister, he would love it he’s telling us.
Before Boudewijn
was born we traveled a lot through all
continents and many countries all over the world. We greatly
enjoy
traveling, and are interested in all the
cultures we met. We travel on our own using a car, to get from place to
place
stopping wherever we want. Since Boudewijn
was born we usually take one special
vacation with him during the holidays. Of course he loves swimming and
playing
at the sea side, so for this reason the Caribbean
is a
wonderful place.
But……his
favorite place
is
still… Mac. Donald’s!!!
You
may reach us via
e-mail by clicking here.
You
may also contact our adoption attorney, Mr. Goldstein,
toll-free at
1-800-582-3678. |
Please
explore our web
page by clicking the links below to learn more about our family.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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