A new decade for my mom began this week... 80 years!

 

My "Kinderei" for my mother: Birthday card, Birthday poem and Birthday present :)

 

It surly is a privilege to be able to celebrate your parent’s birthdays after you have reached the so called “middle age”. Four years ago we could celebrate my dad’s 80st birthday and this year it was my mother’s turn! She wanted to celebrate it with close friends and family and we had a wonderful time with vivid discussions, fun memories and with happy reflections.

 

Boomer! An important member of our family surely present with everything that's happening around her!

Mom reading all her birthday cards......

 

   Dad and Mom!

 Valerie and her grandparents came to celebrate with us!

  I too had a wonderful time!   

My lovely sister-in-law, Lin, always positiv and smiling!

My brother Carlo in discussion with my mother and her good friend Nel.

 

Mom then.......

 

 

Mom now! Congratulations!

 

 

Both my parents, still going strong and enjoying life together.

Keep on doing that!

 

 

Baptizing of our granddaughter, Ellinor Anja Johanna

Last Saturday, the 15th of February our granddaughter Ellinor, was baptized in S:t Johannes Church in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents, Claes and Valerie, came from Rotterdam, The Netherlands back to our capital to unite their near and dear ones for this ceremony. 

Construction work of this stone church, situated in the center of the city, began in 1733 at the site where in 1651 a wooden funeral chapel was built. Due to difference op opinions regarding the style of the church it took another 100 years to update the plans. Architect Carl Möller’s design it in neo-Gothic style which got approval and the actual building started in 1883.

The ceremony in this beautiful neo-Gothic style Church was witnessed by close family and a lot of friends of the young parents.

Ellinor was fabulous in her mother’s baptizing dress and very interested in everything that happened around here.

Priest and theologian Carl Henric Svanell, gave us all a warm welcome and held a wonderful ceremony.  Together we sang beautiful psalms and listened to the giving bible texts that were read. A blessed and happy Ellinor left the church with her proud parents and Alice.

The baptizing bowl, in our family since Anders' baptizing, is now engraved with the name of  the youngest member of our family.

Our lovely granddaughter Ellinor talking to me, and she had a lot to tell......