Background: February 10-12 was Girl’s Weekend in Grand Rapids
Disclaimer: Names have been changed to protect identities; in addition, I used names that although they don’t seen appropriate, I was told by the internet (and how could that be wrong?) that they are Dutch names.
Disclaimer #2: The Dutch are great. I mean, if you're not Dutch, you're not much, right?
From various people in ministry or regarding life in general, I have heard it said that you should never say that you’d never do something. It just sets you up for the potential of having to eat crow. I remember saying I would never step foot in a certain building, only to find myself teaching there four years later.
Thus, when Titi said she would never marry a Dutch person, we graciously let it slide the first time. Second time though was asking for trouble, and we pounced. Before we knew it, we were planning the bachlorette party and how clogs would look under a wedding dress (while of course wearing the appropriate bonnet and taking pictures in front of a windmill). Before long, we were bent over laughing at all the possible last names Titi could acquire: VanDynHoven, Van Dyke, Dykstra, DeHoop, Vandenhousen, DeVoss, and countless other Vans and names ending in sma or stra. Then of course was the tragedy of marrying a man of Dutch descent with a hyphenated name leading to Titi Dykstra-Vandenhousen. We were besides ourselves as we tried to think up the most outrageous names and other results of marrying Dutch. Titi’s only recourse was to assert that Elsa was also going to marry Dutch since she was moving up to the GR area. Looking back on the conversation, I realize how impacted it was by lack of sleep. More importantly, the conversation was impacted by the chance to spend time with true friends and reflect on the early years of our friendship, the memories we were currently making, and the possible, albeit, wooden possibilities of the future as our friendship cries and laughs through another decade.
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Wait, who's Titi? :) I have to admit that I was hyper-cognizant of any and every Dutch name that I came across today:) Thanks for that fun post, it was perfectly penned and captured the fun of our friendship:)
Ha! Love the title...we are sitting here still laughing at it! I really sort of hope the Dutch predictions do come true...b/c a Dutch themed bachelorette would just be so darn FUNNY!! =) Thanks for coming to GR - it was such a wonderful time!
Titi is you, of course, I went to a website that had Dutch names, but ironically, they also had Tara on the list, so it probably wasn't the best source of info
maybe you could find a nice dutch boy in grap.
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