Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Lieveheersbeestje (Ladybug)





Last Sunday was Vaderdag or Father's day. It's the first time that my husband received something from our daughter as a gift for vaderdag (father's day)... It's a stone painted as lieveheersbeestje or ladybug. Our daughter had painted it herself and she was so proud of her gift for her Papa... so sweet.

I've read in Wikipedia that in Dutch, the ladybug is called lieveheersbeestje, translating to "Our Dear Lord's little creature". It is also common to ask ladybugs to bring fair weather the next morning by saying "morgen mooi weer" upon encountering them...

Before I came here in Holland, I used to be afraid with so many insect like those ladybugs, but my husband told me that they are really sweet and will not bite you. I don't have a courage yet to put them in my hands but for our daughter that's not really a problem, she knows that they are indeed sweet and not biting:)

Belated Happy Father's day to my Papa and to my father-in-law
and belated Happy Father's day to all the fathers in the world!

4 comments:

Peter said...

Hi, Just Browsing Blogs about Philippines/European family like my own and found your page and I am amazed !! your baby looks like identical twin of my girl Zara who is 5 years old now ! ! Mum and Zara are certainly Mataray ! My wife is from north of Philippines and I am british with German and Irish Grandaparents.

:)

Marge said...

Hello Peter, thanks for dropping by in my blog and writing a comment. It's nice to hear that your daughter is looking like our daughter too... I'm sure Zara is such a beautiful girl. Now I'm curious to see a photo of your daughter :)
By the way, I'm pure pinay and my husband is pure dutch.

Greetings to your wife and Zara :)

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