The last birthday and the funeral
Little Mabel had made a last drawing for "Oma Sophie" as she called her always. She was 6 years meanwhile and she learned reading and writing at school already for a few months. So she wrote:
"Voor oma, van Mabel, (for oma, from Mabel)
Oma, ik wou je nog een keer zien !" (Oma, I would like to see you once more !)
Her grandpa ( my sister's husband) has plastificated the drawing and Mabel has put it in the coffin under the hands of her great-grandma..........................
Half a year before, on my mother's last birthday ( 86) she had made by herself a cute bracelet for her, what my mother was wearing now too on her last journey.............................................