A lovely afternoon with grandgrandmother

Adrian van Ammers

On mothersday my wife went to see her mother. So what did I do? I went to see my mom. And for a change I brought two of our grandchildren. So you can say we had a 4 generation meeting though my daughter took some time off. "Don't hurry, dad, take your time, ", read "stay away for a couple of hours". So here is what we did. All pictures shot with 828 f32x with diffuser.
My mom is an expert in making postcards. All kind of but this day it was sand cards time. Here is a pic "checking the colors".



Sophie found an empty bottle. "Can you believe this, granddad?, this one is empty!" :scratch



Explanation and training :



Sophie was really doing very well!:clap I was amazed about her concentration and controll.


So was her big sister. Working very thorough. :clap



IMO these kind of meetings are so very important. They will remember for a long time. :thumb



Sophie is always cooperative and makes a perfect model.



Nina shows the result of her work.



Boy, was she happy with her clown! "Did I create this piece of art?"



Here is how a happy and treated child looks like.



And here is a happy Sophie, yes, for Sophie it's allways all about the food.



Thank you for watching and yes, I am a lucky and happy granddad!

Skippy

Lovely Adrian

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

On mothersday my wife went to see her mother. So what did I do? I went to see my mom. And for a change I brought two of our grandchildren. So you can say we had a 4 generation meeting though my daughter took some time off. "Don't hurry, dad, take your time, ", read "stay away for a couple of hours". So here is what we did. All pictures shot with 828 f32x with diffuser.
My mom is an expert in making postcards. All kind of but this day it was sand cards time. Here is a pic "checking the colors".

Thank you for watching and yes, I am a lucky and happy granddad!

My mother is also a very talented lady who enjoys sewing and handcrafts, her mother was the same......can't say the same for me or my sister
Hey I find just being Left Handed challenging enough for me :lol4
You are right in saying that these visits are very special for the children, my neice is now 13 years old and she still looks forward to seeing what grandma has been making since the last time she visited
Thanks for sharing your family Adrian........ Skippy (Australia)

Adrian van Ammers

If I was not in sweets I would go in ...

Skippy wrote:

My mother is also a very talented lady who enjoys sewing and handcrafts, her mother was the same......can't say the same for me or my sister
Hey I find just being Left Handed challenging enough for me :lol4
You are right in saying that these visits are very special for the children, my neice is now 13 years old and she still looks forward to seeing what grandma has been making since the last time she visited
Thanks for sharing your family Adrian........ Skippy (Australia)

card making. Boy, this is a big industry. So many elderly people are doing this, even running all there own websites and stuff. Of course there is a lot of cheating and illegal copies are made in mass amounts. Still I think it's good business. But what do you know? My sweets keep me more then busy and then there is always ...photography.
Thanks for watching and see you around.

Angelo

Adrian: Great pictures, lovely story and 2 very beautiful little girls. The entire set is lovely but THIS picture is amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Adrian van Ammers wrote:

GREAPER

Thanks for sharing these. What beautiful children.

Adrian van Ammers

Angelo, I think you picked my favorite!

Angelo wrote:

Adrian: Great pictures, lovely story and 2 very beautiful little girls. The entire set is lovely but THIS picture is amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, that's #1 for me as well. Thanks for looking and encouraging words! I really appreciate.

Dee

Grandchildren are so much fun
What interesting photos! Sand cards, huh? They came out quite well too! I enjoyed the portraits of the grandchildren on the wall, yours? :

lynnma

Lovely series.. I really enjoyed sharing that time with them.. thanks

Adrian van Ammers

GREAPER wrote:

Thanks for sharing these. What beautiful children.

I thought I love this sign, and wanted to ask where does it come from. Then I clicked on more, woo, there is a whole bunch of them.
Anyway, thanks Brian, for your comment and sign giggle :giggle :giggle

Adrian van Ammers

Dee, you have a sharp eye

Dee wrote:

What interesting photos! Sand cards, huh? They came out quite well too! I enjoyed the portraits of the grandchildren on the wall, yours? :

I was wondering if somebody would recognize the pictures. Here is one of them, shot with 717. I posted it before on STF. I love this one because it expresses her character so well by that time. Very sensitive. She still is but she is growing up now.

Adrian van Ammers

Thanks, Lynn

lynnma wrote:

Lovely series.. I really enjoyed sharing that time with them.. thanks

You are welcome, thanks for your nice words.

ginger_55

There is a photo of one of them hanging on the wall.

Wonderful set of photographs to help memories along, of a wonderful day.

(Hey, my grandmother cooked.) I say, "stop running or you are dead", and I take their photos. My youngest daughter's kids like me. They are still young, kind of like your grandchildren, and that daughter keeps talking me up.

I have teenage grandsons, a different experience. Especially as that mother, my oldest, she believes in letting her children have free expression. One of them went to work in an old folks home, he is civil now, when he is there.

Your grandkids are adorable! As is your mother, or grandmother.

Great set!

ginger (thanks for sharing)

Adrian van Ammers

Hi there Ginger

ginger_55 wrote:

There is a photo of one of them hanging on the wall.

Wonderful set of photographs to help memories along, of a wonderful day.

(Hey, my grandmother cooked.) I say, "stop running or you are dead", and I take their photos. My youngest daughter's kids like me. They are still young, kind of like your grandchildren, and that daughter keeps talking me up.

I have teenage grandsons, a different experience. Especially as that mother, my oldest, she believes in letting her children have free expression. One of them went to work in an old folks home, he is civil now, when he is there.

Your grandkids are adorable! As is your mother, or grandmother.

Great set!

ginger (thanks for sharing)

whoo, teenage grandsons, that must be interesting . I have good memories about my children being teenagers. They are so vulnerable because they think they have to act as a grown up but in the same moment they have to learn how to be a grown up. They need our full support on these moments more then ever. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for the compliment about the pictures and the kids. Yeah, they are real dolls. I love them dearly. Thanks again.

JesusV

Hi Adrian, lovely story...
looks like you had a great time with the potcards and taking pictures. Beautiful candids and story... but I am affraid that you do not deserve any award this time... no way you take bad shots having Nina and Sophie as models.

See you,

JESUS

Adrian van Ammers

Hi there Jesus, long time no see

JesusV wrote:

looks like you had a great time with the potcards and taking pictures. Beautiful candids and story... but I am affraid that you do not deserve any award this time... no way you take bad shots having Nina and Sophie as models.

See you,

JESUS

Where have you been? I hope you are doing fine. So you found dgrin too. Pretty good place to hang around. I only miss the "my threads" feature and asked for it yesterday. Robin said he would have a look at it.
No award this time? It would have been my first anyway I think the reward has been paid in front All these lovely (grand)children!