The Grandmas

August 1989: Claire, Mickie & Marge

How many countless hours did these Grandmas put into their grandkids having
a good BSL time?
We will forever be in their debt!
Cooking for truckloads of kids (and their friends),
wiping faces, wiping bottoms, referee-ing games, putting on life jackets, taking off life jackets, making sure the little ones did not go
OUT PAST THE DOCK,
singing children to sleep, rousing children in the morning,
taking loads of laundry to the Blue Horizon Landromat,
DEFROSTING REFRIGERATORS
(an unbelievable, only-at-BSL-type rule!),
going on nature walks with the kiddies, putting worms on hooks,
taking fish off hooks, organizing crafts,
impaling 20 gazillion marshmallows
onto 20 gazillion sticks, chanting
STAY AWAY FROM THE FIRE every 30 seconds,
and the list goes on and on....

1989, Owen & Spaak's cottage
L to R: Lies Rosema Kelder, Patrick Ottenhof, Matthew Reid, Drew Rosema, Elliot Ottenhof

Here is "Grandma Mickie" conducting a TV Tray Orchestra, and, yes, the kids are all standing on a bed. I remember this photo well, because Elliot, on the right, had just wacked Drew with his "drumstick" for being out of sync with the rest of the orchestra. You can tell by the look on Drew's face that he is thinking about asking for a new tray-partner.