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Victor
It has been a long time since I have posted any news on my blog. Why? Because I’ve been involved in another major “project”, by far the most important one I have ever been involved, but very time consuming. And now after 3 months have passed, I am slowly returning to my previous activities. As a picture says more than a thousand words here is the picture of little Victor and myself:
Yes! that is correct! Me an my wife have a 3 months old little baby. His name is Victor Gabriel Ducea and was born on 29 January 2007 (4,075kg/54cm). He was born 3 weeks before the planned date, and this took us by complete surprise… we still had so many things to do, stuff to prepare, and so on… Nevertheless… in just a few hours after rushing to the hospital Victor was born… we were blessed to have a healthy and beautiful baby… and since then our life has never been the same (obviously he is our first child)!
The fact that I am working as a freelancer mostly on remote projects allows me to work from home. This allowed me to give my full support to my wife and help full time with the baby. Even so, the first weeks were very difficult and we were all exhausted (peoples with children will probably understand what I am talking about)… For the peoples that don’t have children probably this is hard to understand, but I would say you can imagine that you want to do your best, but you don’t have any idea what you are doing; you want only the best for the little baby but you are not able to understand why he is crying for hours.
Anyway time has passed and after some very difficult months.. here we are. Much more relaxed, starting to enjoy more and more the times spent with Victor. I guess we got used to this new “job” and I can say that we are now out of beta stage. Even though the baby still needs permanent attention, I am starting to slowly get back to “work”. This means that I will also start posting back to my blog (I even have several drafts prepared during this time that I didn’t had a chance to post online).
ps. during this period I have replied to all the questions received on comments and emails. I would like to thank to all the peoples that have sent me emails during this period asking me why I have stopped posting new articles to the blog and also asked me to continue working on the blog. THANK YOU ALL!
Cheers,
- Marius -
13th May 2007, 21:29
Congratulations
13th May 2007, 21:36
Congratulations! How does it feel? Can’t imagine working when your newborn son is just right here beside you. Maybe I’m not mature enough to make myself understand that I have to work for him.
14th May 2007, 07:42
Congratulations to your wife and you Marius ! And welcome to the young Victor (a future sysadmin ?! ;o)) !
14th May 2007, 08:28
congrats !
15th May 2007, 05:35
Congratulations! It’s great opportunity for the freelancers, you could spend more time with your family. ^^
16th May 2007, 09:38
Thanks guys!
rusty_angel you are right… Working as a freelancer allowed me to stay with my baby for a long time. You can’t compare this if I had a regular job that I could not miss for parenting. But so, during these 3 months I was able to stay most of the time with my baby and wife and help as much as I could. Regarding work, I had solved only serious problems, emergencies and such, and delayed all other work.
Still now I have to slowly get back to work (at least if I don’t want to lose my regular clients). All my clients showed great understanding and that was also very cool. Even so I am much more time available for the baby, than any regular ‘full time’ working people…
Gaël: it is so hard to think of such things, on such long term… He is so small and we are just taking each day of the time. Having a little baby makes each new day a challenge as each day is different.
25th February 2008, 22:45
As you enter a different stage of parenthood - that in which your child is on his feet and exploring the world around him - I wish you all the joy that I experienced with that stage! Mine is now in his 20’s, but I still fondly remember his early childhood curiosity.
12th April 2008, 21:10
Tina: thank you for your kind words.