Spring Fever vs Nesting Urge

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While we were still in a snowstorm a few weeks ago (with a camera and lamp because of Michiel’s photo experiment), and suddenly spring is here now! Our front yard Magnolia is ready to burst out into a cloud of flowers and the prunus is about to pop into a gigantic pink candyfloss at any moment now. And I immediately get the urge to get out in one of my summer dresses. Offcourse just to run back inside again to grab an extra warm vest and pop into my warm high boots. I should have known, but still every first spring day, every year again the same ritual…

Mom? Can I have a little pool in the garden so I can play!? Obviously, I’m not the only one who’s bad at estimating temperature … “Well, you can play in the bathtub upstairs!?” Fortunately, she was happy with my alternative.

In the garden, our jungle is coming back to life, and like every year I’m feeling the urge to jump in there so I can clear the way for all the new fresh green sprouts that are fighting themselves a way up into the sunshine. It’s just that this time there is this huge thing standing between myself and the ground. There is no way I can reach it. So what to do with all of this Spring fever I’m having and a garden that is as pregnant as I am?

I’m not getting beyond pruning our willow (it’s a beautiful Common Osier). mmm… there’s a lot more to be done to get this garden ready for summer. In the coming days, it will be beautiful weather. 20 degrees they say! Great. And so I start plotting my masterplan of how I will get as many people as possible to exploit and fix my garden. That garden needs (and will be) ready for summer. Before the little one is here! it just has to be!

Nestling in the house is not really the issue with me at the moment. No nesting urges for me! The nesting is just nowhere to be found. Not even feeling the slightest tingle to clean or prep baby stuff. It’s not happening at all. We decided to rebuild our home at 7 weeks away from my due date. The house is a building site with rubble and dust everywhere. Not even one piece of baby clothing is standing ready yet!  And no nesting urges anywhere to be seen. But the garden…no! That garden HAS to be done before she pops out!

I already see myself sitting there. Miley playing in her little pool, Haley playing in the grass, Michiel is picking some apples and next to me on the picnic plaid next to me our new little girl… I’m so looking forward to that!

Oooh … Suddenly it hits me! In the summer months, this garden is our home. That’s where we will be the upcoming months! Offcourse!!! So that’s where my nesting had gone.

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Lentekriebels vs. Nesteldrang


Waar we een aantal weken geleden nog midden in de nacht in een sneeuwstorm buiten stonden met camera en lamp (Michiel’s foto experimentje), is het nu plots lente. Magnolia staat op klappen en de prunus kan elk moment in een roze suikerspin veranderen. En ik krijg meteen de behoefte om in een zomerjurkje de deur uit te stappen. Om vervolgens snel weer naar binnen te rennen voor een extra warme vest erbij te grissen en mijn hoge laarzen aan te schuiven. Had ik kunnen weten, maar toch, elke eerste lentedag weer hetzelfde ritueel.

Mama? Mag ik een badje in de tuin!? Ik ben duidelijk niet de enige die slecht is in het inschatten van temperatuur… je mag boven wel even in bad spelen!? Gelukkig was dat ook goed.

In de tuin komt onze jungle tot leven, en bij mij komen de kriebels om mezelf ertussen te storten zodat ik de weg vrij kan maken voor al het verse groen. Wil het nu alleen zo zijn dat er best wel een buik in de weg zit en ik met geen mogelijkheid de grond kan aanraken… top. Wat moet ik dan met al deze kriebels, en een tuin die net zo zwanger is als ik?

Verder dan de katjes wilg kom ik niet.
Komende dagen wordt het prachtig weer. 20 graden zeggen ze! Mooi. En ik begin mijn plannetje te smeden om zoveel mogelijk hulptroepen te verzamelen om voor mijn zwangere karretje te spannen… die tuin moet en zal zomer-klaar zijn voor die kleine er is.

Nesteldrang in het huis is bij mij niet echt aan de orde. Wij besluiten om te gaan verbouwen op 7 weken van mijn uitgerekende datum. Huis een puinzooi met overal stof. Nog niet 1 rompertje ligt klaar… en geen enkele nestel-kriebel om daar aan te gaan beginnen. Maar die tuin. Die moet klaar zijn voor de boel klapt.

Ik zie mezelf al helemaal zitten. Miley spartelend in een badje, Haley spelend in het gras, Michiel is wat appels aan het plukken en naast mij op het picknickkleed ons nieuwe kleine meisje.

Oooh… het muntje valt. In de zomermaanden is deze tuin is ons thuis. Daar zijn we straks te vinden. Daar is die nesteldrang dus gebleven.

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Carry in style -Carry you home

The baby-carrying way of life.
Wherever we go we take our baby with us! No problem, she just hops on our back and she gets te see the world from her private VIP seat.
Plus we get all those extra bonus cuddles from her!

It’s really a livestyle thing. Not having to stay at home for all those naps, she prefers to sleep close to us. We can entertain her, so much to see from up there. And she gets to view and explore the world from a safe place. So where ever we are she is getting everything she needs.

This feeling of keeping your child close to you and carry them is a hard thing to describe with words.
PinkNova desided to produce a song about it. A thing that has never been done before as far as i know!
The dutch singer-song writer Bart Voncken wrote the song for them called “I will carry you home”
The song is just so sweet and sincere, it communicates exactly that feeling of keeping your child close you ,and caring for them more than anything in this whole wide world! Can’t help but getting all emotional every time i hear it!

With our photograpy and videography we always try to show how we experience this world and illustrate our feeling of being close and connected to each other as a family. Ilse and Judith from PinkNova came to us width the question if we would like to use the song in our newest video.
And offcourse we would like that! Actually, it’s a huge honor!

We took a little break in putting our video’s online. The shots of our adventures from the last view months were saved to make one compilation video for the song! Nothing fancy, just the four of us, living our lives, going on roadtrips, cuddling on the couch, loving eachother, and carrying our babygirl with us. Honest, sincere, real images. Beautiful but not prefect, just as real life.

Scroll down to see a view pictures we took while shooting the video.

In the next couple of weeks we will publish the complete video’s where this compilation video is made out off!
Lots of unseen footage and complete photo series and stories behind every scene to come!
Don’n miss our updates! Make sure to follow us on Instagram and to subscribe on our Youtube chanel to keep up with all our new video’s and stories.

Fell in love with the stunning babywraps in the video? I Know right!? They are amazing! Be shure to Like PinkNova on Facebook to get all updates on new designs and availability info!

Hope you enjoy and relate to the song and the video, we had lots of fun making it!

– This blogpost is made in collaboration with  PinkNova  –

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Photo & Videography: Jolanda Marti & Michiel Fook  –  Wild & Boho 
Music: Bart Voncke
Baby Wraps:  Pinknova
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Carry in style – Deep Autumn Leaves

Let it goooo let it gooooo.
We are feeling a bit like Elsa in this magical Frozen landscape!
Often i find myself beleving in fairytales and dancing singing realy loud with my 5 year old daughter.
We are enjoying every second of our magical freezing powers before it melts away to make room for our magical spring-flower powers.

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Photography: Michiel Fook

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Baby Wrap:  Pinknova – Deep Autumn Leaves
78% Organic Cotton, 22% Peruvian Baby Alpaca Wool, 290 gr/m2
These Leaves are for texture lovers! Deep Autumn Leaves is a lustrous wrap made with Peruvian Baby Alpaca Wool, one of the finest and most exclusive wools of the camelids & strong organic cotton.

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Carry in style – Twilight

December holidays shopping in Amsterdam with dad.
Love seeing how safe she feels with him wandering around in that big buzzing city… cars, bikes, shooters, taxis and trams passing buy. So many people, so many faces, so many sounds… so many incentives. Babies become so easily overstimulated, i’m so happy she is safe with him! And this way i can focus on my mission: Christmas shopping!!!

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Baby Wrap:  Pinknova – Rendez-Vous  Twilight
51% Organic Cotton, 49% Organic combed Aegean Cotton, 270gr/m2
A monochrome Rendez-Vous, with Twill woven birds, woven with soft and strong organic combed Aegean cotton.
The two weaves used for this wrap makes it one of a kind.

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Fields of Waterland

This is our home.
Stepping out our backdoor and walking in to these fields of waterland.
Nothing but fresh air, water and lots of green. Whenever i think of home. This is it.
Here, with them. This is all i need.

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Photography: Jolanda Marti & Michiel Fook

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