Dear Yalçin and Serap,

Warm congratulations!!!

I am so glad for this new addition to your family. I am in France at the moment and my mum was next to me when we learnt the news, we were both excited and happy for you. My mum was asking to see the pictures of both of them and I translated for her the stories of their birth, it is really nice and moving. Serap seemed in good form on the picture after the delivery. Ates has very nice hair and a good face, he even looked a bit tanned!

I looked up what their names mean in a dictionary and I think it is quite nice to have Demir and Ates, it completes each other.

But what about you? How is your life going? Are you still in Istanbul? Working a lot?

On my side I found a post at a Boys Grammar School (which is quite nice: it means smart students). I will stay there for a year and come back to France after that. I am really missing my country a LOT. So there you go.

I hope we will be able to stay more often in touch and once again: congratulations and enjoy parenting.

Lots of love to the four of you.

Nathalie