For Lucy and Molly.

There once was a little girl called Mindy. She loved to play house. She did not have any toys. They lived in a small house and she helped her mother dusting. But when the work was done she sat on a chair in front of the window and looked outside. It was snowing a little. She saw the snowflakes dancing in the sky. She tryed to count them, but there where to many and she could count only to ten. She saw the snowflakes falling on top of one and other and they made a big pile. It kept growing and growing intill it was up to the window. Then it got eye's and nose and a smile on the face. Also a red scarf around the neck. You want to play with me the snowman said?Mindy nodded her head and said I have to ask my Mom. then she called out MOM,MOM.Mom grabbed her and said what is it Mindy? I want to play with the snowman outside she said. Mom said there is not a snowman it is not even snowing anymore. You fell asleep and where dreaming. But Mom said soon there will be more snow and we are going to make a snowman then. Thanks Mom, now I am going to make a house.She put four chairs together and put a big towel over it and pretended that was her house. She played all afternoon until Daddy came home, then she had to tell him all about the snowman and the house. What a great day she had.
Story and Picture by Granny '09

My Daughters.

I see you now grown up and full of love. Also I see you when you where small. To me you are still the same, even when you changed your name. I see you when a baby is near, and think back how wonderful you where. Memories are great and you can enjoy. The empty days are no more. Look around and what I see, a grown up, but still a baby for me.

Circle of love.

Live takes many turns. You think you have it all. But then somethings happens and you fall. Your left alone, he is gone. What shall I do, I feel so sad. I can not walk alone this pad. I need your love, I need your strength. The memories we made will help. They gave me strength and worthwhile living. A circle of love keeps on giving!

Love and shine.

I am here you clearly see me.I am alive bright and colorful. I look at you, sometime you see me. Most of the times you just walk by.My life is short, but wonderful.I make you happy when I arrive.Take good care of me I need your love, so I can shine till end of days. Flowers are like human lives. Hard work and Love and you will shine.

Fathersday.

Tomorrow is Father day.That makes me go back to my Father. I still see me walking with my Dad, he holding my hand and showing me the road work he was working on. On the other side of him was my brother Gerrit He is three years younger then me. This picture stayed in my mind. Also being the only girl with four brothers I was special in my Fathers eyes Most girls pull to their Father.Later I saw how special my three girls where for my husband. He just loved them so. He was a special Dad. So from generation to generation we need Dads in our live. I see how my grand sons love their little ones.How they look up to their Daddy.The love of a Father gives every child security for the rest of their lives.

Poison by Dior.

Many years ago my favorite perfume was Poison. My husband surprise me with it one day and I loved it. Some years later my granddaughter Kim went to France as a exchange student. When she came back she brought me from Paris a bottle of Poison. The surprise was great, my husband had died ,but she did remember that. It was not the perfume,but the thought. This morning Kim called and said grandma can you meet us for lunch with several family members. I said I love to. Wellthe grandchildren and great grandchildren came and we went to sit down and in back of me some one called grandma and there was my granddaughter from London . What a surprise. I cryed from happiness. When we sat down she gave me a present and to my biggest surprise a other bottle of Poison. My grandchildren will not let me forget my husband.

Thankful for family

Yesterday was a day to be thankful for your family. Being aged and live alone a lot of things are getting harder for me to do. So one day my granddaughter made a plan to go to grandma's house on June 13 with the whole family and do the things she can not do. So at 9 a.m. the first ones arrived and started to scrape my outside of the deck ,two story's high. And before I knew every one was doing one thing our the other. Scraping, painting, spraying and little things like a lose toilet seat. Every thing got done. They also brought food. Home made soup my brother and his wife made. Ice cream cake, home made.Pasta and cold cuts. It was great.It also was the last day that my brother and wife where here , so a nice time to say our goodby's Now they are some where over the Atlantic Ocean.Thank you to all my family,they are the ones who keep us going. It is so great to see all the love I have in my family, and that we can teach the little ones what that means.

Grandma B x mas cookies.

Several in the family have told me they love my x mas cookies. Next Saterday my family is coming to my house to do some odd jobs that I can not do. So I decided to make my x mas cookies for a treat. And with that I tought let me put the recipe on the blog. So here it is. 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 eggs, 2 tbsp of milk,5 cups of flour, 1 and a half tsp cream of tarter,1 and a half tsp of soda,1 tsp vanilla,lemon our anise. 1 fourth tsp salt. Mix and chill. Bake 350 for 8-10 minutes. Frosting. Mix confection sugar with water until it is spreadable . Then frost the cookies and let dry, When hard and dry with food color paint a picture on the cookies and let dry again, Thats all. Good Luck Hopes you enjoy them for a long time.

D Day June 6 , 65 years ago.

This morning I was glued to the T.V.,remembering the beginning of the end of W W II. I sat there and cryed my eye's out. Thousands of men died for my freedom. We did not know what was happening at Omaha Beach Normandy. We where not told anything. But to see this later and imagining what was going on, I can not tell you my feelings. Appriciation, respect and love, love for all those men who died. To most people it is just a ceremony, for me it is my life. Thanks, thank you all for giving you life. You will stay with me the rest of my life. After the war my husband and I visit you with all the white crosses in the Netherlands. This is what every American should visit if they are planning a trip to Europe. You get the feeling what a sacrifice it has been for our Country. Later in the U.S.A. I have met some widows, who's husbands are laying some place in Europe. While working at R.G.H. cancer center I met patient, men who where in W W II , and when they found out my history of the war they opened to me,because I did understand them. There family did not. It is easy to give your opinion about wars, but you do not know what wars are unless you have been there. Every soldier has lots of people who loved them, lets never forget that. I cry for you every memorial day p.s. Precident Obama's speech on Omaha beach Normandy was exellent today. June 6 2009.

Where is summer.

Every day I think it is going to be warmer and I am disapointed again. I have daily my heat on.How different one year is by the other. In 1991 we had summer in April and it never got cold again until the Fall. Lucky I have Portable this last year and it keeps me warm. It is a Eden PURE. And now I do not suffer anymore. When you get older this is very inportend. When I grew up in the Netherlands the summers where always cold and wet. So when it is different you do remember. I remember April 13 1945. That was the day our town was liberated by the Canadians. I was up all night and we sat on the sidewalks. It was hot. So it shows that weather can have a lot of memories