NordenBladet – My last blog post was on April 18. What has happened meanwhile? The main keywords would be: Helena-Reet + Allan 2 years of love, Estella Elisheva’s performance with Georg Ots Symphony Orchestra, Estella’s admission to MUBA and her 16th birthday, my activities in the garden, renting of the 4-room apartment in Palivere, Mother’s Day, several NordenBladet’s meetings and of course…. oooooh, more precisely OOOOOOH – the situation on the US stock market ?? !
Let’s start from the beginning. On April 22 we celebrated with Allan two years since getting acquainted! And our love only grows and grows! We are such a great match that it is even a bit embarrassing to boast about our happiness (but I still do so) ?. We still have the tradition that on the international Allan and Helena-Reet’s Day that is celebrated monthly on the 22nd, I make lasagne and whipped cream cake and Allan brings me flowers. For the first anniversary I got a beautiful pot of Hydrangea, which inspired me to later paint the piece “A Year of Love“. That 30x40cm acrylic on canvas painting also made it to an exhibition at the Estonian National Museum in 2021. How cool is that?! 🙂
This year Allan gave me a handful of liverleaves (Hepatica nobilis), which, to be honest, I found insulting at first. But then I started to think, which I would prefer, something made for me with love from the heart, or something to boast with to the world. Allan specially went to the forest to pick me those flowers. So lovely, isn’t it!!! Besides, he said, like the year before, that he will give me an entire flowerbed again. Last year we went to buy permanent plants and this year he will grow flowers from seeds himself… I can’t wait to see what the new flower bed will look like 🙂
After breakfast I started preparing for the evening, because we had invited a few guests. The guests were my younger sister Hanna-Liisa and one of Allan’s friends, Kristo. Actually we had also invited Allan’s brother with his wife, as well as my older sister with her husband, but it came out that Ardo and Tiina had to work at that time and Marie and Raido, who were supposed to return from Turkey that day, had decided to extend their travel and had gone to Italy. Below are some pictures of the festive table. I prepared a quiz with questions about me and Allan, we talked, enjoyed food and drinks and had a great time. It was a great evening!
End of April was the time for admission to Tallinn Music and Ballet School MUBA. And Estella Elisheva was admitted to violin studies as a major! Tadaa! This means that from next year on she will not be taking music classes as an extracurricular activity at Saku Music School and Georg Ots Tallinn Music College, besides going to Tallinn Jewish School, but instead she will be committed to music during her college years. The competition was intense, only two students were admitted to violin vocational secondary education. Again feeling so proud about her ??? Hahaaa.
Source: https://otsakool.edu.ee
In my previous blog (read HERE) I wrote that Estella Elisheva will perform as a soloist at Georg Ots Symphony Orchestra’s (GOSO) concert “Springtime Merry-Go-Round.” I will add a link for you where you can view the concert online:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eu9bnidt1Zf9xPvqU2YtTkoXKZowCjAU/view?usp=sharing
Estella Elisheva. Photography: Olivia E. Luggenberg
Yesterday, May 16th was the 16th birthday of my older daughter! Happy, happy birthday dear Estella Elisheva! I kind of wish to say, “OMG, how time flies,” but then again, “OMG, all this trouble with the kids.” This way time doesn’t really fly. These 16 years have been devoted to children and since my younger daughter is a child with special needs (an autist) and very likely will remain nearby forever, I start to feel that there is light at the end of the tunnel! I made her a festive breakfast (cake, presents and other chit-chat), and then off she went to school. A bigger party is pending on 29 May. 🙂
About my gardening works and plants, about investments and stock market and everything else that was not covered in this blog about the past events, you can read in the coming days from the coming blog post.
Stay cool! ❤
Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)
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