Re: Happy New Year, with many oliebollen

[Guest guest]

And a Happy New Year to you too Isabella! As 2008 is ending

you'll have your surgery behind you and you'll be eating anything.

I enjoyed hearing about your Dutch tradition and as you wrote

about oliebol you made my mouth water. They sound so much

like the Beignets which are so famous in the French Quarters of

New Orleans, La. They are like a square donut and I bet I could

eat a dozen.

Love,

Maggie

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[Guest guest]

Happy New year Isabella. Yes, next year you will be able to partake of all your favourite goodies and not even think about it. I am still amazed that i am able to eat and drink without thinking about it!!

It is great to hear of your New Year Tradtiions in the Netherlands - we were in Amsterdam nearly two years ago and have I taught a lot of children of Dutch heritage here, in the Dandenongs, where there are lots of Dutch flower growers living. thinking of you as you wait to get news of your op. Hang in there and think of a carefree future.

Deb

Happy New Year, with many "oliebollen"

Dear friends,

Herewith I want to wish you all the best possible old-years-eve as we call it over here! Furthermore I wish everyone a great, happy, prosperous and above all healthy 2008!

It's a pity you don't know oliebollen, a famous Dutch treat with New Year. The thing closest to it is a donut, but an oliebol is really different and just lovely. Everywhere I go today I'll smell them, yum yum. Some people find it a terrible smell (they are baked in oil), I find it a lovely scent... This will be the last year I'll be choking on one (as I know I can't resist the temptation of trying to eat one, I'm weak when it comes to oliebollen), but...next year I'll eat one, without flushing it down and thus removing the taste. Mike's post said he can now eat steak, so hey, next year I can eat an oliebol! Once it's finished I'll have a nice glass of Moskato, Deb! Wow, what a combination that'll be and what a lovely prediction for 2008!!!

While we're at Dutch traditions.. .tomorrow morning 9.00h think of us poor parents...kids in our town are allowed to go walk the doors in our town as of 9.00h to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Each door will be opened and the kids will be given a sweet at each door, together with the warmest wishes for the New Year. Sooooo, I'll be walking the doors with the youngest (the eldest doesn't want to walk with his mother of course!) and Romeo is giving the sweets at our door... At noon the kids go home again, exhausted (well, that's one good thing as the parents are exhausted by that time too).

Enough about The Netherlands now, as I just want to tell you I am gratefull for this past year. It brought me so much more than just the worries and trouble I shared with you. Amongst others I am gratefull for finally finding this group, that made me open eyes and ears for the -ectomy, which I am going to have done soon now. I wouldn't have been able to decide to go for it without this great group. Thank you all for the friendship, advise and support given. Happy New Year to you all!

Love,

Isabella

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