Helena-Reet: Enjoying life has become more and more important to me + a few pictures from children’s birthdays and a tiny gardening blog!

Helena-Reet Ennet

2 years ago

NordenBladet – Mornings here at Murimäe are wonderful – surrounded by beautiful nature, silence, birds singing and intoxicating good smell from the lilacs and lavenders! There are miraculous views from the windows. Really, the time passes more slowly here, there is no hurry. It is a great luxury to live in the countryside and be the master of your own time!

„Good ideas and thoughts that make you successful and that are worth carrying out do not come by the hundreds. It is enough when you have one great idea in a week or even in a month.” This saying originates from a billionaire, but I do not remember exactly anymore who and when said so. But the point is true, I’d say. People working without motivation (including overworking) oftentimes have just the capacity to do their paid tasks mechanically and burn out sooner or later. It takes a lot of time but there are few results. This doesn’t mean of course that the entrepreneurs themselves do not sometimes overwork – they do, and even more. When you work for yourself then the only thing you think about is work, but here’s a catch – time planning! Everything goes neatly if you plan your time and this is my strong side!

I am happy that I have been able to arrange my life so that I can enjoy each day, decide on my own, at what time, where and what I do! Ok, there are indeed some limitations to this (for example taking the kids there and back) and certainly I cannot decide when the stock markets close or open, but all the rest I can plan by myself! Also, I manage NordenBladet, OHMYGOSSIP sites, Elisheva & Shoshana brand and other undertakings so that people who should so wish can work from home. I value results, not the amount of office hours.

Enjoying life has become more and more important to me. Unfortunately, I am not yet very skilled at it. Yet more and more I take time for myself (for reading, painting, doing this and that in the garden, cooking, car trips, for a good rest, etc). Besides, health and looks. I try to be more active (current favourite sport is mowing the lawn), a few times a month I take a massage and go to the SPA, have my nails (manicure, pedicure) and lashes done, as well as epilation and depilation are the minimum that I do monthly. Yet enjoying life is also in the details – beautifully laid table and nicely served food, beautiful beds of flowers and herbs, in the evening a cold beer on the veranda (my new favourite is 0,0% Esterlla Damm) accompanied with good music, making plans with your loved one, etc… ??

Let’s write a bit also retrospectively.. On May 29 we had in our garden a small joint birthday celebration for Ivanka Shoshana (14) and Estella Elisheva (16). We played darts and the jeopardy game Kuldvillak. The latter is a great social game. JeopardyLabs has prepared a nice computer version where you can ask the questions yourself or use the game that others have created (see HERE). We brought the TV outside to connect the screen and played for several hours.

Now one of my favourite subjects… NATURE & GARDEN!

Would I have believed it if I had said it 10 years ago – I can’t wait to go outside and weed the flowerbeds, or that I can’t wait to go to the gardening centre to look for new plants. Hahaaa ? ?

Today it is exactly so… in the garden I feel well. Springtime is sooo beautiful, everything is blossoming. I have become a great fan of nature, I even go outside and talk to the spruce cones in the garden, not to mention that I like to take pictures of everything.

Besides, I like to gather herbs. I gather them in a way that also attracts others to do the same. Currently the dandelion and primrose season is ending. Both are mighty Northern herbs that can be used on the table for tea, honey, syrup as well as garnish! In Elisheva & Shoshana care cosmetics we use dandelion often in soaps and skin healing ointments. For instance, we have a fine silky and nourishing E&S „Dandelion and goat milk soap“.