NordenBladet – The previous blog was posted nearly two months ago, on February 22nd. The reason for that was everybody’s positive Covid test on February 23rd and the Independence Day, the end of February (including children’s school holiday) was spent in bed what concerns myself. Estella and Ivanka were only very slightly ill (their single symptom was the positive test), I on the opposite had a fever, fatigue, endless sleepiness, a running nose and cough. I slept for many days in a row and got rid of the running nose just recently.
Keywords for March were the war in Ukraine ?? and the situation regarding the stock exchange. From morning till night I was watching different news channels to keep up with the situation in Ukraine. What is going on is deeply sad and tragic and makes me value peace and freedom even more. I made a small donation to the Red Cross and took several decent clothes, footwear, bed sheets, toys, caps, scarfs, handbags etc as humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.
Since February 27th Estonia ?? has received 31002 Ukrainian war refugees, which, considering our tiny country and small population, is a vast number! Let’s remember that the population is just 1.3 million – on January 1st 2022 according to Statistics Estonia the Estonian population was 1 328 439, therefore the percentage of Ukrainian war refugees in Estonia is already 2.33% of the population. Everyone is helping as much as possible.
The situation with the stock exchange has also kept me alert and has actually been really fascinating. Mhm, when you call red hot markets fascinating – stocks falling and falling and traders using the amplification loan overcoming several microinfarctions a day, and partly not so tenderly watching the interest numbers growing.. hahaa.. Despite all, the great volatility of the market gives lots of good opportunities for good productivity and keeping in mind long term perspective it is good to collect several dividend shares. The extreme widths of Bollinger Bands would possibly surprise even John Bollinger himself. Quite a certain bottom of the market might even be the start of the „falling knife”. But… in spite of all of the above March came with good productivity – 22%! But before we rejoice, we must wait until the end of April, since this time may „eat up” all of March productivity.
For Women’s Day (8 March) I baked a cake, made salad and oven potatoes. Allan arranged the season’s first grill outside and brought flowers. Me, Ivanka and Estella also got three gorgeous bouquets of wonderful tulips also from Allan’s brother Ardo. I like it very much when in the rooms there are also fresh cut flowers in vases besides flower pots. For me this is part of the home’s feeling. I think there are two very important things that men could follow should they wish to have a happy and feminine wife. The best way to increase feminine energy is attention and bringing flowers, and fondling of the breasts in the evenings. Regular gentle massage of the breasts brings partners closer together, is good for the health and alleviates stress. A woman who has received enough tenderness and attention will do all that’s possible to make the man beside her happy. 🙂
On March 22nd, we celebrated for the 22th time the Allan’s and Helena-Reet’s day. It’s been 1 year and 11 months since we met! There is peace and love in the heart, I feel I am cared about, it is an amazing feeling! ? As always, this is for us a monthly celebration. Instead of lasagne I made stew for dinner and for supper I made a homemade pizza and whipped cream cake!
On March 24 Allan’s father Rein (11.09.1954 – 24.03.2022) passed away ? . The funerals were on March 30 in Pärnamäe cemetery. I am glad that I also got to know him. Rein was a great organizer, dominant, therefore during these almost two years that I knew him, I was happy to attend several nice events. We must make the events worthwhile ourselves, because emotions are what will be remembered.
March and April have both been full of emotions.
On April 1st my parents celebrated their golden wedding anniversary (50th wedding anniversary). It is great luck when your love lasts that long. My first relationship of almost 20 years ended, hopefully I can hold on to the second relationship better. Retrospectively I can tell that both sides need to put in some effort for the relationship to work – when you want the happiness and love to last, you must care for and respect each other. You must hold on to love, water it and nourish it like a plant.
I gave my parents the painting I myself painted, „Syringa vulgaris” (read more about the painting from ElishevaShoshana.com art blog HERE), it was ready in May 2019 and in 2021 it was also exhibited in the Estonian National Museum (ERM). This is the first flower painting of my life, painted by the example of my home garden’s lilacs. When handing the painting over to my parents, I said a wish: „May your love be reborn and rekindled every spring into a bonfire just like nature is reborn in springtime.”
What else is there to mention about April? Two weekends we spent in Pärnu, Estonian Medical SPA. First time with Allan’s mother and his brother’s family, and the second time me, Allan and the kids. When visiting Pärnu, a proper pizza-orgy always follows in Pärnu Steffani pizza house. We also visited the Greek restaurant „Oregano”.
Estella Elisheva (15 yrs) had/has three performances in April with Georg Ots Symphony Orchestra (GOSO) – 13 April in Kuressaare Cultural Centre, today 18 April in Tartu, Heino Eller Music School in Tubin’s concert hall, and tomorrow, 19 April in Tallinn, the Brotherhood of Blackheads house in the white hall. Estella has a solo piece with the violin, H. Wieniawski’s Légende Op. 17. First time in front of a big orchestra as a soloist!
Since on Wednesday Estella went to Saaremaa and on Thursday Margus took also Ivanka to Saaremaa, then after a while we were on our own with Allan. Gosh how good it is to be just the two of us 😀 😀 We visited Allan’s mother on Easter time, worked in the garden (I raked, we planned new flower beds, Allan built new shelves in the shed, we went for a walk and chilled just so.
This will do for this time… I will now take Estella to the bus (Tartu performance is ahead), then I go for a massage and then dive into work. Hugs!
Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)
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