Dear Parents,

We would at least like to let you know here that we immensely admire you and are rooting for you. We don't always remember to give you our recognition and to tell you or otherwise share our admiration with you. We would like to make amends here.
We are keeping our fingers crossed for you, we hope that your strength will not abandon you, and if it should, then only for a little while. And in your moments of hopelessness, we wish you always at least a smidgen of joy. We are with you.
 

Dear Martina,
You know that I admire you and often think of you and Kuba. I am in awe of you. I take my hat off to you. I cannot understand where you gather such great strength to manage it all. You are so beautiful and fragile. I would like to at least embrace you with these words of mine. And I thank you very much for the beautiful poem and the photos which you have allowed us to put here.

Marcela

Self-confidence has nothing to do with perfection and perfection does not guarantee happiness.

And happiness is more than a cloud with a silver lining…

And unconditional love requires self-confidence
And that is happiness.

And if you have no-one who loves you like that, then believe
that God loves you like that.

And how do you love (yourself)?

We are very happy to be able to share these pictures with you (see below).
1 March – besides being a beautiful date, on this day an invaluable and time-saving assistant moved in to help us care for Jakub – the ceiling-mounted Roomer rail system. In addition to being a pretty good-looking guy who is almost invisible in our flat, he has the strength of a thousand cloned supermoms. And, seriously, that is really great.
We are thus spared much rough physical labour and ARE HAPPY. VERY MUCH SO!

Thank you all for your friendship, support and help! Martina, Jakub, ťapina and lola