I forgot to add that the parents offer the 'beschuit met muisjes' to
their colleagues at work as well, at the first working day after the
birth has taken place.
I had to prepare about 200 at my office when my son was born... but
fortunately our department secretaries offered to help me.
Frank.
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:34:31 +0200, FXCM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Congratulations Michael with your beautiful daughter Tracey.
>And with your very nice portrait of mother and child.
>
>In the Netherlands we have one special thing we do which I think is
>done nowhere else in the world: we give all the guests who come and
>visit the mother and baby - and father, if present ;-) - to a
>traditional food called 'beschuit met muisjes'. (lit: biscuits with
>little mice).
>
>Google the Dutch term
>http://www.google.com/search?q=beschuit+met+muisjes
>and you'll see a lot of photographs of it.
>Wikipedia describes them well too:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschuit_met_muisjes
>and even teaches you how to pronounce it correctly.
>
>
>Frank van Lindert
>Utrecht NL
>
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