Helena-Reet: Allan’s mother visiting + Midsummer with parents

Helena-Reet Ennet

2 years ago

NordenBladet – Yesterday was again Helena-Reet’s and Allan’s day – two years and two months of love! The morning began with pancakes and the evening got even sweeter – as is our tradition, every month on the 22nd I make either lasagne or whipped cream cake or both. Yesterday I made a nice banana-strawberry cake and Allan brought me four plants that have already found their places in the flower-bed.

WEDNESDAY, 22 June

Yesterday morning I mowed the lawn for several hours, then I took a shower and at 12.45 I had booked a 90 minute massage. At three o’clock Allan met her mother in the town to drive her to our place for a two-three-day summer vacation. In the evening I packed children’s things for the trip to Saaremaa, then we drank wine and ate the fried Baltic herrings that Allan’s mother had prepared. Yummmm.

THURSDAY, 23 June

In the morning the children and Margus went to Saaremaa for three nights (until Sunday). After that we started working in the garden. I started to weed the flower beds and then finished mowing the lawn, and Allan took apart the veranda in front of the house. The house needs heat insulation in the basement and just like that we can also build a new veranda at some point. We worked hard for a few hours in the garden in the heat of the Sun (the weather was fine – ca 30 degrees Celsius!) and then I started preparing salad for the Midsummer dinner and to lay the table. By dinner time also my parents and my younger sister Hanna-Liisa came.

Our menu was as follows: Allan barbecued meat – we had Armenian shashlik (Karni) and Blueberry shashlik (Rakvere). These were accompanied by fresh salad. Besides also fresh blueberries, grapes and the cake I made.

It was however a rather silent party with parents – vodka was on the table just for the sake of it (father was driving and mother agreed to take just one shot after I advertised the opportunity) and when I poured more wine for my sister, she exclaimed: “She is YOUR little sister, HOW come you make her drunk” …icccc 😀 Such a story… With my parents it is always as if I sin unless I work hard nonstop and feel sad at the same time. Of course, it is not so serious, really it was a pleasant evening. We must spend time with our parents, then we are less sorry once they are not there anymore (Allan tells me this every day). At about ten my parents went back home, while Hanna-Liisa and Sirli stayed for the night. Tomorrow the four of us will drive to Tartu (me, Allan, Allan’s mum Sirli, and Hanna-Liisa).

Until tomorrow! Have a beautiful Midsummer’s night!
Hugs!