Opa's Girls

I was reading the church bulletin and listening to the piano just before church started, when suddenly there was Naomi and Rachel and Stevin. (Katrina was attending to Petra.) Stevin sat down, took Rachel out of her car-seat, and handed her to me. Proud and pleased Oma, to sit with her littlest one. But Naomi simply said, "hi Oma I'm going to sit with Opa" (who was on sound), and off she went. She's sat there with him before, so I wasn't too surprised with that. But then Katrina came in with Petra, who gave me a smiley hello but was more concerned about where was Opa. She toodled off to sit with Opa too!! (And discovered that there are lots of buttons to play with!)
And Opa's been in Dartmouth a few times, recently, so Maria's claimed him too! Just check out Emily's blog!
I'm glad I can still hold on to Rachel while she's so tiny, but the day's a-comin'....
On the other hand, OMA makes the jello!!

A Round Tuit

I finally moved my herbs and spices into glass jars. The old glass bottles were of various sizes and had labels that were fading a lot; some of the bottles were -um- about 38 years old! The other containers were Tupperware plastic ones, and they were getting so sticky on the outside that they were not a delight to pick up to use. And, no, they wouldn't scrub clean anymore, either. So last fall, I bought glass jars in two sizes from Benson's Bee Supply -intending to make some fancy labels and make my collection look more up to date. But I needed A Round Tuit...
Well, today was the day. But the fancy labels did not materialize. I got quite basic instead.
I had picked up some glass etching cream from Michael's (the craft store!) last winter, and used that today to etch a simple rectangle on the jars, and then simply printed the name of the spice or herb by hand, in capital letters, on that space.
Neat. Clean. Another project done!
Next...?

You Know You're Getting Older When...

...you become a great-aunt twice in one week! Add these two little ones to the others, and there are now seven children for whom I am a great-aunt: Nicholas and Alexandra Triemstra, Jordan and Cadence and baby Leah Geertsema, and Jonah and baby Izzabella Triemstra.