Ugh

The boys all have croup. so it has been sleepless nights for the last 3 nights. Thankfully it is coming to an end now.

We had another fox visit this morning and somehow he managed to get our Oskar. I found poor Valen huddled up in the house this morning, obviously he is inside now. Both of them are old and oskar was going blind. Valen seems to be ok he's eating and comes for a snuggle so hopefully he'll be fine.

We got our book order yesterday, Euan got a couple of Elsa beskows books (pelle & forestchildren) We got a craftbook to share. We got a story, song & poembook for everyone.
I am really pleased wih all the books. I *love* the elsa beskow books. the drawings are fantastic very very sweet. The story is cute but not in a sickenig way. animals die, animals eat animals all in a way that its just part of the story, not scary or something that needs atention just a fact of life.
The craft book is great its all 3 previous books in one (easter, christmas, harvest). It has an enormous amount of crafts in it for all abilities. from different types of lanterns to acorn snakes bread dragons harvest wreaths, well I could go on and on. I'm sure you'll see a bunch of the crafts pop up on the blog.
We got a book on storytelling to. Yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of opa's death and the first page I opend the book on was a little witch you mae with your hand, just like opa used to do it was weird to see that picture I hadn't thought about it for a long time.

I've also been enjoying a bunch of blogs. Now I have figured out i can follow these blogs with blogger I don't forget about them. I will see if I can put my bloglist in the side somehow so you can see what I read. If you're reading and you have a home ed blog let me know :)

Opa

Leeve opa!




’t Zal noeits mier zoe weare,
’t zal noeits mier zoe zien,
als toen gea nog hea waas!
Altied lekker veur os koake,
Uch zoons die bijna deede vechte,
Euver wea t letste bietje mei moch nimme.
Koake waas uch groetste hobby.
En in de zomer nog t leefste,
In de korte boks en met n heemp aan.

Oak op vakantie goan vond gea fijn.
Same met oma, Guus, Corry en Har.
Kilomeaters fietse en lekker op rus komme,
En s’oaves lekker op t terras met n pilske dr bea.
En als gea den truuk kwaamp,
Den kwame wea meistal op bezeuk,
En gink gea os vertelle wie t doa waas.

Vruuger dea ik uch hoar altied kejme,
En als uch hoar den neurgus noa zoat,
Zeit gea toch altied teage mich:
‘’Kelly det duis dich good’’

D’r is nog zoe vuul wat ik euver uch kin vertelle`,
Zoe als uche erwtensoep dea zoe lekker is,
Uche orgel, woa gea altied op deed speule,
Uch plekske bea de maas, woa ge auch rus vond.
En als ik tusse de middaag bea uch kwaam eate,
Waas gea altied ein bietje laat,
Umdet gea bea t kaarte of biljarte waart.

’n Weak lang heb ge gevochte,
maar ’t heat neat muuge baate.
Opa, ’t is good geweas!
Rus noa ma lekker oet!

PS: ik haaj van uch!

Opa passed away thursday surrounded by his children and Oma. My sister wrote the poem one day I'll translate it....