Nieuwjaren

Today we went "nieuwjaren" (verb "to new year") which basically means we went for lots of food to my family & Jan's family to wish everybody a happy new year.   This is usually done on New Year's Day but since New Year's Day is often a hard day to rise & shine in time, we usually do it one of the next days or often the first weekend of the fresh year.   For us that coincided with a family gathering at Jan's family side so we did lots of kissing and wishing!! (don't blame us when that predicted flu epidemic starts next week)


Traditionally kids read a "New Year's Letter" to their godparents and/or grandparents.  In our family we are no longer doing memorized little rhymes but they now can read their own written letter .   Gosh, they grow up so fast.