![]() ![]() I bet you can come up with more catchy good-bye rhymes, I know my colleagues at the Province of North Holland are champions at rhymes. On to the big adventure across the pond – only 18 more days in the Netherlands.Īs I started this post with that all over the world famous good-bye verse, here it comes, a longer version. I will do my best to come back at this blog as often as I can and post a lot of sense and non-sense and share my adventures with everyone that wants to read them. I am most grateful for having had the opportunity to work with so many great people, thank you for the guidance and the lessons I’ve learned. Look through your hands as if they were binoculars, and then point out. It lifts my spirit and gives me even more confidence that this big step my family and I are taking will be a step towards a good new life. Open the alligator mouth slowly and then snap it shut when you say crocodile. Thank you for encouraging me and letting me know you trust I will do well in the States. Thank you for the kind words, the speeches, the flowers, the signed card, the booklet from my team with a special and personal written good-bye, the book about The Province of North-Holland in English and for the many e-mails that I got. Thank you for the attention that you’ve put into choosing such an appropriate gift – I am cherishing my new bracelet charms, a moneybag charm and a tulip charm. It was a wonderful moment as they made sure I didn’t leave without a beautiful memory. Well the end of my last day at work is already in the past, I’ve said my goodbyes and my colleagues said their good-byes too. At the same time I found comfort in knowing that some of my colleagues will keep in touch once in while and a very few special colleagues are naturally shifting into being friends, as they say, some doors close and others open. ![]() It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave and I won’t see many of the people I met at work, ever again most probably. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave my work into other skilled people’s hands. This past Thursday was my last day at work and quite a strange and special day it was. Ha, something new I learned today that might come in very handy later when my daughter will start learning rhymes. I guess it’s time to go, buffalo.Who doesn’t know this ‘good-bye’ verse? I guess the entire planet does and most people, myself included, know exactly this little verse but don’t know that there is more to it, it’s a children poem and song that’s been around for ages and you can actually add to it more rhymes, make up your own. Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the results. With me wanting to work with well-known animal phrases for the quilted critters, I just Googled these phrases and found there are in fact many more to play with.Ĭrazy! Who knew there were so many ways to Marco Polo a goodbye? And on that note, I thought I’d tackle the most well known of these phrases, to “get back on the quilted critter horse” after some dismal butterfly attempts last week. After a while, we were making up our own rhymes – “See you soon, you big baboon,” and “After that, my kitty cat.” Aww. Naturally, from that point on whenever one of us would go out somewhere, we would call-and-answer our farewells this way. Somewhere along the way, we read a book that made use of the “See you later, alligator…in a while, crocodile” rhymes. Seuss book – or better yet, Dogzilla or Bad Cat – well, it makes me feel like I’m getting a “do-over” of some kind. See You Later, Alligator See you later, alligator After awhile, crocodile Bye-bye, butterfly Give a hug, ladybug Toodle-ee-oo, kangaroo See you soon, raccoon Time to go, buffalo Can’t stay, blue jay Mañana, iguana The end, my friend all of these work but the most common goes. So curling up in bed with my son and a good Dr. In fact, the only time “reading with my parents” came into play was in grade 4, when I was tested and found to be reading at a grade 1 level…at which point my mom would force me read Nancy Drew books out loud to her nightly, yelling at me whenever I messed up. See you later, alligator, After a while, crocodile, Blow a kiss, jellyfish. See, when I was little, this wasn’t really a part of my “routine”. My eldest – right as he figured out we were going to Disneyland.įor me, reading stories at bedtime is an extra special treat. ![]() Until “Junior” comes along, just begging you to share your secrets for a happy childhood with them. Unless you are one of those rare individuals who has maintained their joyous youthfulness well into adulthood, it’s these little things tend to get overlooked or abandoned as we get older. Things like the magic of Christmas…getting lost in cartoons on Saturday morning…having a water fight on a hot summer day. One of the joys of having kids is getting to re-experience a bunch of the fun stuff – except this time ’round, you have the wherewithal to really appreciate it. ![]()
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