She has too many talents to list, and I adore her for all of them. Best of all, she loves her Mama, who is equally tall, beautiful and Dutch.
This is from Dianne for her Mom.........
Like many of us, one of the ways our mothers show us their kindess and their love is through food!! My mom is certainly one of those moms.
She knows what my favorite Christmas dessert is (her homemade butter tarts....ooooooh, the saliva starts flowing at the mere thought of those labour-intensive culinary treasures!) and she always makes sure there is a batch waiting for me at Christmas.
Likewise, everyone in the family has a favorite food item that she lovingly prepares for each of us when we go to visit, or when she comes to visit us (cookie tins and coolers arrive packed full!) . It might be her special ribs, or her trifle, or her peach pie, or her lemon poppy seed cake, or her Cornflake cookies, or her shortbread cookies, or her pea soup, or her mincemeat pies, or her special cabbage, or her OLIBALLEN ( a Dutch specialty which used to be our New Year's Day treat) .
And everyone in the family knows that those treats get made for each specific person who particularly adores that food. She spends hours....days.... in her kitchen in Burlington happily preparing these goodies for us.
She is a master in the kitchen.... she is a pro. And she is such a loving, selfless mother, grandmother, stepmother, mother-in-law, wife. I adore her for soooo many reasons, and I could undoubtedly go on, but I was asked to think of how she shows her kindness, and this was the first of many examples that came to mind.
So there you have it.... my first instalment of Betta Hoeve - The Kindness Queen. In the next instalment, you will hear about how her worrying ways are also manifestations of the loving kindness for those who she holds dear.
Dianne Hoeve (a proud and appreciative daughter)
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