where it started ....my love for MUIZEN ( mice )

Typical Dutch Tradition

 Beschuit met muisjes

, (sugar coated aniseed )

 to celebrate the birth of a baby

. Pink muisjes for a baby girl, blue for a boy

Muisje = mouse

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When I had my first child
I became to be a mother 
and my life changed 
A LOT 

Before that 
I had been working as a 
kindergarten-teacher
in a Waldorf School .

I choose to be a 
stay-at-home mother .
and one day 
walking with my first-born
in the park
I met another mother 
also walking with her first-born
in that park
and we started talking
and
we became friends ...

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we had lots of coffee-and-play-dates
and than we were BOTH pregnant
from our second child 
at the same time 
We both had boys
and than we got girls 
and still when the years went by 
we stayed friends
and were creative stay-at-home-moms
and learned a lot
from each other .

Than I moved to another town
and a bigger house !
and we started sending MAIL 
LOTS OF MAIL 
MICE-MAIL 

and 

and we made 
and send
eachother mice-presents 

We had a third child 
not at the same time 
and I had a fourth .....

we still had coffee once and a while
and than I devorced
and a few years later she too...

the mail and the presents
were a joy in our friendship .

and still are 

and than

I got my first MAILEG mouse

in a box
from a very wonderful SHOP
by a bloggerfriend
LIA

and a new hobby started .....

she arrived too

and the one on the right !

and my first grandchild

was born 

and you know what

she loves the mice too 

and she is two years old now

and we play a lot
with my little friends

like this !

SHE CALLS ME 

OMA-MUIZEN 

HOW CUTE IS THAT !

so

now you know

about me and mice 

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have a wonderful OCTOBER

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