Well, it is now June 10, and I have finally had a quiet Saturday morning to figure out how to post pictures onto my blog…so finally, I can introduce you to my family (from left to right): Nora (25) and her husband Travis Shank, my Mom and Dad, Brett (15), Peter (23 in four days!) and me. This is our family beach picture from last August in Bethany Beach, Delaware. My Dad is a Dutch pure-bred…100% all the way. The proof lies in the fact that he loves cheese, cleanliness, California, choir, clipping things (like hedges and bushes), etc. He is a very meticulous person. On the other hand, my Mom is Norwiegen and just about a bit of every European country. Even though she has the white silvery hair that most Norweigens get by the time they are 30 years old, she is still very young at heart. We call her the Pilates Goddess. The rest of us kids are half-breeds: 50% Dutch and generally speaking, a mix of my parents in physical features and personalities. However, unlike my sibs, I proudly own my Oma’s middle name: “Jacoba” (pronounced Yaa-ko-ba with the stress on the “a”). It is the female version of Jacob in Holland. Gosh, back to pronunciation! Dutch is a hard one. Oh, and just for the record, when Nora and Travis first started going out, we discovered that his Mom–Janis–had Dutch in her too! So we knew it was fate.
