Friday 26 November 2021

Reading away

I think I have read more books during the past two years than during the 40 years before that. Loving it especially during a cold evening with the fireplace on.....

Opa Vandenboom loves his new Christmas lights, purchased and hung up by his loving daughter Mary. Last weekend Joe, Marcy and Spencer were in Niagara to cheer on Wil who was playing a hockey tournament in Thorold. It was nice to see a few of his games. It looks already so long ago we watched Hilary and Mark in those arenas. Wil's team won the tournament....

My sister Hanneke send me this photo: March 1944, Jo Nolle en Nel Leverman get married at age 24 and during the last year of the Second World War. Later that year my sister Gerrie was born, and she sent me recently a photo with her kids....

And Gerrie's youngest, Berrie, with his family in the mountains of Switzerland. New generations growing up in a world shocked by the COVID pandemic and all the fallout and confusion. It is not always easy to stay optimistic, but then again - it is the only way to go. Soon we will be in 2022...

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