Heather and I made a double batch of cookies for Wayne and Cole's classroom Valentine parties. As I've probable mentioned before, Heather's preschool, sadly, does not acknowledge holidays of any kind, so she was very jealous. There were enough cookies for us to share here at home.
Hope you all had a "love"ly (ha ha) Valentine's day. Thank you for all the cards sent to W,C,H.
This past weekend Martha was in town for the collector's show. Heather requested that she bring her skates and come skate with her on the pond. Here's a little video.
Hans Brinker is a great book if you can find it at the library. Aunt Martha, will you come skate with me?
ReplyDeleteThose cookies look scrumptious! Great job, Heather.
Had to fix Grammie some dessert after she saw those yummy looking cookies you and Heather made!
ReplyDeleteGrammie and I both agreed that Heather skates very, very well for one so young!
How precious! (skating and singing!) How delicious (cookies!)
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Forgot to mention that after skating (and wishing she would remember the song more)Martha emailed Laura Mannix to see if she could find the song "Amsterdam" from the movie "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates", and by return email, there was the clip from the movie with the song on youtube!!
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I want a skate date with Aunt Martha. I love that she never shuts up even for one second. We are all the same! This morning Thomas dropped me off at the airport for work, and he got into the wrong lane and blamed it on the fact that I was talking nonstop the whole time! ha ha
ReplyDeleteOur Valentine's got drowned in lice so to speak - I didn't even get out my decorations - boo hoo. I am scared to show this post to Estelle tonight because I know she will be wistful for cookies and skating!
As for Hans Brinker, I know just who to ask - Fransiska my friend from Holland!
Thanks for introducing me, Julie. Well, Hansje Brinker is a legend, but the book you are talking about is not dutch. The story of Hansje is well known in the Netherlands, he puts his finger in a dyke (the thing that keeps the water away) to save the town. But the book I never heard about! As I understood the story was imported from the english book, back to the dutch culture. Import-folklore!
ReplyDeleteMore interesting is the skating part, which is much much much more important if you want to learn some dutch culture. Have a look here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/02/skating.html
Speed skating is the thing, the whole country was having "ice skating fever". Even the army was on the ice to prepare the ice for thousends of skaters.
As you can imagine, I missed out on all the fun here in Nice.
I loved seeing the skating photos on boston.com!! Thanks, Fransiska!
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Dear All, if I had known I was going to be on the blog, I might have done a triple sow cow, or whatever my fellow Olympic skaters call it! Joanie corrected me in calling it the Amsterdam river! Guess the skating with Hans was on the canals! Very proud of Heather skating with hockey skates. I think Thomas could teach her a thing or two!!
ReplyDeleteGreat skating Heather and Martha! Paul (Geigle) says he learned to skate on the Neponset River in East Walpole, Mass.
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