Don’t Panic

Don't Panic

We all knew this might happen one day. We all knew the risks involved. We all understood the consequences.

There is no point assigning blame or pointing fingers now. It won’t help to bicker about whose fault it is. We’re all in this together now. Panicking won’t solve anything either no matter how easy it feels to give in to it. The important thing now is to remain calm. We can get through this if we just stick together.

Yes. We must remain calm and… and.. deal with this as responsible, mature adults. We just have to accept that it has happened because panicking will not change the fact that I, Invader Stu, am going to become a father.

Yes. You read it right. In just a few months (October in fact) I will be busy changing nappies and drinking enough caffeine to raise the dead.

I could not be more excited… absolutely terrified but excited.

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

34 Responses

  1. Shamin says:

    gefeliciteerd.. resistance is futile :) So is the blog title going to read invasion failed :)

    Life changes now….

  2. Sandra says:

    Congratulations, Stu to you both!!! Such good news!! :-))
    PARABENS!! (portuguese word for congrats ;-)

  3. Invader Stu says:

    Shamin – What do you mean the invasion failed? I’m creating a little sleeper agent and growing my forces. The invasion is not even close to over. Holland will be mine. Mahahaha.

  4. Hi, congratulations on your becoming a father in the nearest future! I can totally see why you’re excitingly panicking because after all, you’re going to have a baby and that’s scary. I am soon to become a third-time mom, and I am just as excited and just as close to panic as with my first child. Your advice not to panic is straight on, so let’s not panic, OK? Don’t panic? AAAAAAArgh!

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