Teacup Café XLI - Page 45

***Earniel*** · 08-20-2012, 05:56 AM

I missed the highlight of the month (finally being able to swim in the pool that was broken for two years, and that in this superlovely weather) to see it replaced by another highlight, the birth of a baby nephew. My nephews all appear to love being born in heatwaves for some reason.

So here's hoping the good weather lasts until next weekend. But at least I got a baby nephew out of it, so it ain't so bad.

**Mari** · 08-20-2012, 09:04 AM

Congrats! Phew, must have been terrible, being highly pregnant in this weather! o_O

***Earniel*** · 08-20-2012, 02:51 PM

That's why we fixed the pool.

But if it hadn't been for the enormous belly, you would hardly have noticed she was pregnant. Sis is one of those people who never feel a thing when pregnant. She even biked to work every day until two days before the baby came. (He came a week ahead of schedule, mind.) The first one didn't want to come out, the second couldn't wait!

**Mari** · 08-21-2012, 01:57 AM

Lucky her! I think there are thousands of women who'd love to trade their pregnancies with hers then!

***Jonathan*** · 08-21-2012, 04:04 AM

Congrats aunt Eärniel

These will be more chances to go swimming in the pool!

***Earniel*** · 08-21-2012, 05:48 AM

Thanks.

There won't be any swimming soon, mind, as the good weather is over. But ah well, going to see the baby nephew again tonight. And like a good aunt I have crochet him a blanket.

***Varnafindë*** · 08-21-2012, 01:42 PM

Congratulations, good aunt!

The last sane person · 08-22-2012, 09:37 AM

Congrats Eärniel!

hectorberlioz · 08-22-2012, 12:08 PM

Congratulations Earniel on becoming an aunt!

Treat the little one right and he won't grow up thinking you're evil

(hey, I have three nephew, I know about this!)

Willow Oran · 08-22-2012, 05:21 PM

*pops open the champagne*

Congrats Earniel! (And to your sister as well!)

***Earniel*** · 08-23-2012, 07:00 AM

Thanks all!

*puts a large bowl on the table, filled with suikerbonen*

They're a traditional gift that parents give to family and friends at the occassion of a birth. Usually almond nuts (or chocolate) coated in coloured sugar. I don't think they do this elsewhere.

***Jonathan*** · 08-23-2012, 12:14 PM

Mm, so sweet and tasty....

Tomorrow I'll write my possibly last exam EVER! If I pass, I've practically secured that shiny sought-after med license...

***Varnafindë*** · 08-23-2012, 01:07 PM

Best of luck, Jonathan!

***Earniel*** · 08-23-2012, 03:45 PM

Good luck!

If you pass, do we get to call you Dr. Jonathong?

**Mari** · 08-23-2012, 04:47 PM

Good luck, Jon!
Earn, I never knew about that tradition. Interesting! We call them Smarties by the way.
Our tradition is for the new parents to serve beschuit met muisjes to the visitors. The muisjes have the colours pink or blue.

***Earniel*** · 08-23-2012, 05:06 PM

Usually suikerbonen are more oval than smarties, on account that the shape is that of an almond nut, even if most of them are made of chocolate these days. So they're not actual smarties (since that's also a brand) but very similar in contents. But I couldn't rapidly find a bigger picture that conveyed the concept well enough.

It's funny how we're geographically so close and yet how customs between Belgium and the Netherlands can be so different.

I've actually had the Dutch traditional beschuit met muisjes once, an emigrated acquantance introduced me to it when she became a mother.

**Mari** · 08-24-2012, 03:31 AM

Yes. I think somehow there's still the view that the only difference between Dutch and Flemish people is their pronunciation.

Grey_Wolf · 08-26-2012, 01:29 AM

Midge · 08-31-2012, 12:42 AM

Congrats, Earn!

Midge · 08-31-2012, 12:49 AM

http://entmoot.com/showthread.php?p=670906#post670906

THERE IS ONE STINKING WORD LEFT AND I HAVEN'T ANY IDEA WHAT IT MIGHT BE.

If my frustration wasn't evident enough in the use of the CAPS lock, ... well, I need some help. There might be some Teacup cookies in the deal for you...

08-20-2012, 05:56 AM	#881
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I missed the highlight of the month (finally being able to swim in the pool that was broken for two years, and that in this superlovely weather) to see it replaced by another highlight, the birth of a baby nephew. My nephews all appear to love being born in heatwaves for some reason. So here's hoping the good weather lasts until next weekend. But at least I got a baby nephew out of it, so it ain't so bad. __________________ We are not things.

08-20-2012, 09:04 AM	#882
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Congrats! Phew, must have been terrible, being highly pregnant in this weather! o_O __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

08-20-2012, 02:51 PM	#883
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	That's why we fixed the pool. But if it hadn't been for the enormous belly, you would hardly have noticed she was pregnant. Sis is one of those people who never feel a thing when pregnant. She even biked to work every day until two days before the baby came. (He came a week ahead of schedule, mind.) The first one didn't want to come out, the second couldn't wait! __________________ We are not things.

08-21-2012, 01:57 AM	#884
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Lucky her! I think there are thousands of women who'd love to trade their pregnancies with hers then! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

08-21-2012, 04:04 AM	#885
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Congrats aunt Eärniel These will be more chances to go swimming in the pool! __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

08-21-2012, 05:48 AM	#886
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Thanks. There won't be any swimming soon, mind, as the good weather is over. But ah well, going to see the baby nephew again tonight. And like a good aunt I have crochet him a blanket. __________________ We are not things.

08-21-2012, 01:42 PM	#887
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	Congratulations, good aunt! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

08-22-2012, 09:37 AM	#888
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Congrats Eärniel! __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

08-22-2012, 12:08 PM	#889
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	Congratulations Earniel on becoming an aunt! Treat the little one right and he won't grow up thinking you're evil (hey, I have three nephew, I know about this!) __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

08-22-2012, 05:21 PM	#890
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	pops open the champagne Congrats Earniel! (And to your sister as well!) __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

08-23-2012, 07:00 AM	#891
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Thanks all! puts a large bowl on the table, filled with suikerbonen They're a traditional gift that parents give to family and friends at the occassion of a birth. Usually almond nuts (or chocolate) coated in coloured sugar. I don't think they do this elsewhere. __________________ We are not things.

08-23-2012, 12:14 PM	#892
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Mm, so sweet and tasty.... Tomorrow I'll write my possibly last exam EVER! If I pass, I've practically secured that shiny sought-after med license... __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

08-23-2012, 01:07 PM	#893
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	Best of luck, Jonathan! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

08-23-2012, 03:45 PM	#894
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Good luck! If you pass, do we get to call you Dr. Jonathong? __________________ We are not things.

08-23-2012, 04:47 PM	#895
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Good luck, Jon! Earn, I never knew about that tradition. Interesting! We call them Smarties by the way. Our tradition is for the new parents to serve beschuit met muisjes to the visitors. The muisjes have the colours pink or blue. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

08-23-2012, 05:06 PM	#896
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Usually suikerbonen are more oval than smarties, on account that the shape is that of an almond nut, even if most of them are made of chocolate these days. So they're not actual smarties (since that's also a brand) but very similar in contents. But I couldn't rapidly find a bigger picture that conveyed the concept well enough. It's funny how we're geographically so close and yet how customs between Belgium and the Netherlands can be so different. I've actually had the Dutch traditional beschuit met muisjes once, an emigrated acquantance introduced me to it when she became a mother. __________________ We are not things.

08-24-2012, 03:31 AM	#897
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Yes. I think somehow there's still the view that the only difference between Dutch and Flemish people is their pronunciation. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

08-26-2012, 01:29 AM	#898
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 08-26-2012 at 01:36 AM.

08-31-2012, 12:42 AM	#899
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	Congrats, Earn! __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

08-31-2012, 12:49 AM	#900
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	http://entmoot.com/showthread.php?p=670906#post670906 THERE IS ONE STINKING WORD LEFT AND I HAVEN'T ANY IDEA WHAT IT MIGHT BE. If my frustration wasn't evident enough in the use of the CAPS lock, ... well, I need some help. There might be some Teacup cookies in the deal for you... __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

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