January & February 2018

               Not much did happen in January and February as just the everyday things of life.

                It is where and what a person is involved in.  

                I am very thankful God is allowing me to enjoy life yet and be involved in several things.

               

               So while there were no big events to write about I started  to take pictures in those two months of some treasures or heirlooms in the house to let the girls know for later where they came from. Here are a few of them. 

                

                                       This is my little tea service I got as a little girl. There are 2 more cups and saucers with this set. They were very much loved and the two who are not here are not in the shape as the two you see on the picture. The scene on the dishes is a Dutch boy and 2 girls standing by a river and Dutch houses on the other side.

This little glass bottle is from my grandparents. I believe it was used on the table with dinner and filled with vinegar.

This is a coffee bean grinder.

We either got it as a present on our wedding day or I had saved up Douwe Egberts points.

Douwe Egberts is well known for its coffee.

So it is a 1950 product.

This coffeepot was given to my parents for their wedding in January 1919.

So next January it will be 100 years old.

It has no name brand on the bottom, but it is still a treasure to me.

This plate says;

Van het concert des levens krijgt niemand een program.

In English that means;

From your lives concert you will not get a program.

                             
                              December

                                      December is a nice month with all the festivities going on.
                                I enjoy all the different concerts and programs in church and school.
                                                                       

This is a table runner for Ria. 

In reality it looked nicer then on the picture I find.

December I started making puzzles already. 

It was because of some winter weather I think that I started early.

So this was our Christmas tree for the year. Every year we said that it would be the last year for the tree to be up. 

Well now this has been the last year. You can see that this tree looked tired.

The one who set it up this year did a great job with it to make it presentable.

To my regret we never took a picture with the grand kids in front of it.

That was such a tradition to have a picture with the grand kids who were around for that year,

We still had a great evening with the ones who were here.

First, we  had dinner and then did the gifts by just sitting this time around the dinner table.

After that we played the game 'Cover your Assets'

A fun game.

Then there was this big ice-storm 

Very pretty but it did a lot of damage.

This is the tree in front of our house before 

and below here after the storm.

The ice was so thick it lasted several days before it fell of the branches.