A family's journal · 🌴 Réunion Island

We live, we learn, we choose.

We're the De Bolliviers — Sébastien, Kelly, Émilie, and soon our little boy. Here we share our family life and our take on the times we live in. No marketing filter.

Who we are

The family

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Sébastien

Dad & developer. I build products — and I keep this journal.

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Kelly

Mum. A nurse, then a self-employed nurse — now staying home, by choice.

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Émilie

2013. Curious, creative, always learning — at home and in life.

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Our little boy

August 2026. Joining us soon. We tell his story separately.

Two choices against the grain

We chose differently. Both of us.

Kelly was a nurse, then a self-employed nurse — a job she loved, demanding, made of home rounds and lives we look after. Then she made a choice our times understand less and less: staying home. Not by default, not as a fallback — by decision. Being there for Émilie, holding the home like you hold a course: that's work, real work, and it's hers.

Sébastien made the other against-the-grain choice: turning down the classic salaried path to build his own products solo, no boss, no investors, from Réunion Island — organizing work around the family, not the other way around.

Two unconventional decisions. We talk about them here because they deserve better than clichés, in both directions.

What we write about

Three running threads

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Family life

Daily life, organization, the trade-offs of a family that chooses its own pace — soon to be five.

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Growing up together

Being there for our children every day: education, autonomy, curiosity — our choices and our doubts, no magic recipe.

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A look at our times

Parenting, work, society. An honest, level-headed opinion — no fluff, but no gratuitous provocation either.

The community

We're not the only ones who want to switch.

A stay-at-home parent, a solo income, time on your own terms: these choices feel scary when you're isolated. We bring together the families taking the leap — join us.

Join the families ❤
August 2026

Our little boy is on his way 🍼

We've opened a baby registry to welcome him. If you feel like it, come take a look.

See the baby registry →