Sinterklaas at work

At Gosia's work Sinterklaas came to meet all the young children of Gosia colleagues.
They have an age maximum of 8. So it was the last year for Patrick that he could attend the celebration and get candy and a gift. Next year its only Maaike left . . .

The parents could watch the events while the children were singing and helping Sinterklaas.
At the end they got some gifts of course

They all had a great time

Sinterklaas is in town

On saturday afternoon the biggest event was that Sinterklaas with his helpers "Zwarte Pieten" arrived in the Netherlands. Mysteriously enough he simultanously arrived in all the towns in th Netherlands. He also arrived in Roosendaal. As the weather was good we went by bike and saw the arrival of Sinterklaas on his white horse 'Amerigo' with music bands and many Zwarte Pieten. The kids got a lot of candies and talked to the Zwarte Pieten.

Now the children have to be extra good until 5th of december when Sinterklaas celebrates his birthday by giving gifts to all the good children in the Netherlands.

During that time occasionally they can put their shoe under the table. Inside they put a poem or a carrot for the hosre. And the next morning Zwarte Piet has put some candy in the shoe.

BIrthday and more updates will follow

Well it has been quiet for a while due to busy life at home and laziness from my site. But I will start today and this weekend with some updates from november.
First Big thing was my birthday! Yes, I became older again.
The kids know I am a fan of the soccerteam Ajax so they bought me an Ajax set: an Ajax pen, pencil, gum, AJAX penbag.
Gosia gave me a 400 gigaybyte external hardrive which always comes in handy!

This year now the traditional breakfast on bed as I was out of bed sooner than the kids! Robert had to play soccer really early so I was also up early. But then at 08:00 o'clock we were called that the match had been cancelled due to bad weather. Lucky Robert and lucky me but a pity about my breakfast . .

Confirmation Robert

At the beginning of november Robert did his confirmation in church. It was a nice ceremony that lasted pretty long. but the priest gave a lot of attention to all the children that did their confirmation. Robert and all the children who did confirmation had a special event the day before confirmation. They did an evening walk with torches.

After the church ceremony we invited all the family and had a good time at home.