Lieselotje is thrilled. Because today, she gets to go for a walk with Mom and Dad in the nearby forest. Mom also prepared a picnic basket with sandwiches, coffee cakes and chocolate milk. Lieselotje always looks forward to these moments. Because her parents are always strict and intolerant. That's what she thinks, right. On the other hand, she understands them. She observed them, often heard what they are doing at work. Apparently, this is demanding and stressful for them. That's why she always cleans her room. Even if she doesn't want to do it at all and she helps her mom do the housework a bit. Lieselotje does realize that things can also be done differently. Because her best friend Mira lives in a family with parents who turn a blind eye to much more. Mira has another brother and a sister and her mother stays at home. "

“It's probably because of that,” she thinks.

When she told mom that Mira was allowed a lot more, mom immediately reacted negatively. "

“A child needs discipline, “was her answer.

As a result, Lieselotje had understood that she did not like this at all. But she herself had to think that she actually liked this more. She was banned so much that she often felt trapped. But today everything was fine. Mom and Dad also seemed happy and happy. They even walked lovingly hand in hand and stroked her head from time to time.

Along the way, she enjoyed the young nature with its green and yellow leaves, the rose and white blossoms, the bushes with their buds still closed, the anemones and other beautiful forest flowers she doesn't know the name of. And then she saw something very curious. She noticed it from afar. At first, she thought they were flowers. But no they were 4 different painted stones. They were just in front of a huge beech and someone had arranged them neatly on a hill of unpainted stones.

“Now, see what I find here” she says to her parents, “It's so much fun. Look, a brown van painted on a rectangular stone. Actually, I like that one the most. But also a stone with a lying man, along with a basket full of strawberries. A stone is an image of a city. Maybe it's Paris and one stone with the sun setting behind a tree”

Mom and Dad also like the works of art.

“Can I take them”

“Of course, Lieselotje This is the intention. They were placed there to take away. Like you've found a treasure. Nice, isn't it”

“Do you have a bag to put them in? Because there are so many of them””

“Yes, the napkins are in there. I'll take them out. Here”

Lieselotje puts them in carefully and immediately thinks that she could also paint something on the empty stone later. What would she choose? Oh yeah, the birds, of course.

A little further, she suddenly sees something blue like the whiny sky. It also lies under a very old tree. When she is close, she sees that it is an airplane. With all the colorful stones in front of it with a face. They look so cute.

“It couldn't be otherwise,” she thinks, “or they arrived on this plane. They want to go to Paris with the lying man and his basket of strawberries. There they take a touristic trip in the brown bus. While Pierre, the lying man, hands out his strawberries”

Her pocket is full when all the stones are inside. Dad would wear them for her. “That's the job for a real Hercules,” he jokes. While he looks at her so sweetly. This is actually not ordinary to Lieselotje. Because he is usually gruff and very strict. But that's why she enjoys it all the more. “If you see a good picnic spot, we're going to have a blast,” he says.

One kilometer away in a clearing with beautiful green grass and daisies. Behind it is a pond with cattails and long stems full of small old pink flowers. It is a beautiful sight. Frogs croak everywhere you look and ducks swim around happily. There's even a mommy duck with a whole fleet of little ducks chasing it.

Dad takes a picture of it immediately. “We can have a picnic here,” says Lieselotje.

Mom and Dad think this is a great idea.

They stay there for a long time while fully enjoying the surroundings and the food. Lieselotje believes that the sandwiches have never been so good, as have the cookies and the chocolate milk.

Mom and Dad are drinking Cava. Lieselotje doesn't understand why they like it so much. But she likes to watch the glasses and the bubbles bubble up.

Meanwhile, it has already become very late and, to their surprise, the sky has suddenly turned beautifully pink and yellow.

“Just like on the stone,” says Lieselot.

The three of them walk happily on the forest road back to their car.

At home, it really doesn't take long for Lieselotje to sleep. She is tired of the long walk and all the wonderful experiences.

Just before she ends up in dreamland, she thinks: “That this was a day you will never forget. And she dreams afterwards.

From the passenger plane full of colorful faces and the lying man with his basket full of strawberries. How he rules that one now. He shares his strawberries with everyone, including the tiny lieselot, who acts as the bus's pilot. With the brown rectangular bus, they then make a wonderful tourist tour in Paris and they also enjoy the beautifully colored setting sun together.

Ps. the coloured stones are from:

Airplane with Ashraf Chimban's colorful faces via Paxabay.