Enjoy your day – this is what it said on Peter’s computer.
Daughter Caroline had come to bake a vegetarian lasagne for Mother’s Day.
We decide we are going for a walk with our toe shoes on.
We walk on the grass towards the soccer fields.I follow Peter and Caroline.
What’s this in the grass?
We are back home. The table is set. Now we are going to have lasagne with some salad and a glass of red wine.
Some more visitors arrive.
Here is daughter Monika with two of her daughters. I am third from left. Little Lucas is there with his Mum and Dad. This Daddy Longlegs is one of Monika’s sons.
Where’s he going now?What?There’s some cake left that Peter baked.Peter baked this cake as well. He has been busy for the last few days!Here Peter is with dear little Lucas.
All of us had a lovely day!
And here are a few more pictures:
The black area on these cups serves as a chalkboard. The names can be written on the cups with a piece of chalk!
When the cups are being washed, the names disappear again.
Krystal turns sweet 17 today. She is celebrating her birthday today with her Mum at her Auntie Caroline’s  in Sydney. We’ve seen Krystal already on Thursday to wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  Lauren, our youngest granddaughter, turns 16 in June. So they are all growing up. Two of our grandsons have children of their own already. We have now three great-grandchildren and another one is on its way to be born around the time of my 8Oth birthday!
Today, on this special day for Krystal, I want to publish a few more photos that have Krystal in most of them.
I think this picture was taken on the 14th of February 1999.
We were at the top of Mt Keira. The photo is taken at the front of Mt Keira Restaurant. There are several outlooks on Mt Keira from where you can look down to Wollongong and surrounds. We were able to take Gaby up there with her wheelchair. Monika came along with us with little Krystal who wasn’t quite two yet. Gaby always loved to spend time with the family.
This photo was taken around Christmas 2OOO. Krystal wonders what Granddad is going to do with these sunflowers that grew in his garden.This is just a bit of the front of our house in the year 2000. I put this photo in to show how small this tree in front of our window was at the time. It looks very huge now, and the gardener trims it every so often, otherwise there would not be left enough room for one of the parking spots at the left of the house.This picture is probably from around 2000. This is what it looks like on a day when some kids play soccer at Lakelands Park. Kids still play soccer there during the winter season.This is in Lakelands Park in 2001 when Ilse was with us again.Krystal sits between Monika and me.Krystal has been sliding down and Roxy stand beside her.
Monikas three girls with their cousin Lauren.This picture was taken in Merrylands Central Park on Mother’s Day 2001.
On Mother’s Day 2001 the whole family had met at Merrylands Bowling Club for lunch. Ilse was still with us on this day. After lunch we enjoyed some time in Central Park. It was a great day for all of us. 🙂
We saw ten family members, including Baby Lucas, for lunch on Mothers Day. Baby Lucas got all the attention. He is a little darling. Everyone loves him so much. He was surrounded by three aunties, one great-aunt, one uncle, one grandma, one great-grandma (that’s me!), one great grandpa, and of course his proud parents.
We went to our favourite Thai/Chinese Restaurant. The place was packed full for Mothers Day. However daughter Monika had booked a large table for us ahead of time. All of us were very comfortably sitting around a large round table. For Lucas a Baby chair was provided. He sat in his chair only to have a drink and a banana. I was surprised how well he was able to eat the banana out of his hand!
We all had plenty to eat for lunch. I always love rice and vegetables with a spicy Thai sauce and Chinese tea. As entree we all had some spring-rolls. For afternoon coffee and cake the family came to our place. I liked all this very much. My daughters gave me some beautiful gifts for my skin and for smelling nice! My son rang me from Melbourne later on in the evening. For afternoon coffee one son-in-law did bring along his mother as well as the mother of his deceased wife. The conversation around the table was quite animated. The other son-in-law arrived a bit later from Sydney after he had seen his mother. Ebony, the mother of Lucas, went after lunch with Baby Lucas to see her mother and therefore did not come to our place for coffee.
Everyone loved the cheese-cake that Peter had baked for Mothers Day. It was great to see so many family members in the one day. I feel blessed that Mothers Day had been made so special for me. And I greatly enjoyed seeing daughter Monika surrounded by all her five children plus Lucas, her first and so far only grandchild.
Daughter Caroline stayed with Matthew overnight at our place. We are always very happy when they can make the time to stay overnight. Caroline spoiled us by cooking an excellent supper and breakfast in the morning. After breakfast Peter took them to the train-station. They apologized that they couldn’t stay a bit longer but they have a busy week ahead of them.
I greatly enjoyed the breakfast that Caroline cooked for us.
AuntyUta 