Helena-Reet: TWO MONTHS summary from Christmas to Valentine’s Day
NordenBladet – Ivanka’s winter school holiday was spent mostly in Mõigu at granny’s and grandpa’s place, during that time I generated new ideas and Allan wrote code. Time goes by quickly and Christmas has turned into Valentine’s Day… yet life is still the same …school for some, work for some, a bit of rest once in a while, a little joy, a lot of tragedy.
To summarize it:
December 31st New Year’s Eve 2022:
We spent New Year’s Eve at Allan’s friend’s Kairo’s place, there was also another friend Andres with his wife. The night was pleasant but since they needed to still move forward at night then everything was a bit hurried. I baked two kinds of salty pies and a big cake. One more cake I made for us at home and then also yet another one that was sent with Estella and Ivanka to Mõigu for grandma and grandpa. As usual, we watched New Year’s Eve’s TV-program, dined and raised champagne glasses all night long. We also had a little fun, especially while going to sleep. Allan decided to sleep with his suit shirt on, saying, “Man must look good even when sleeping“. Hahaaa 😝 🤣
End of December and beginning of January were very beautiful in the garden. It was nice to look at the Nordic winter. Super beautiful! But that also had a down side – there was a lot of snow, it even broke big branches on big trees and there was a lot of plowing of the snow (we definitely need to buy a snow plowing bucket that we can attach to the garden tractor). Allan even joked that the Christmas songs a la “Snow is falling, snow is falling, hurray” are compiled by authors and composed by composers who live in the city in an apartment… hahaaa 😂 😂 😂
Regarding Murimäe street’s snow plowing, there is already my painting from March 2021 named “His Highness Mouse the First,” number 15 from the mice-series (more about the painting on my art blog Elisheva&Shoshana HERE).
January 14th was Allan’s sister-in-law Tiina’s birthday that we celebrated one week earlier in Seaplane Harbour, where in the frame of the birthday program we also visited several exhibitions (“Hell on the Arctic Ocean” about Juminda disaster, Icebreaker Suur Tõll, etc). Everything was fine except for the fact that the birthday girl herself was missing since Otto had fallen ill :/
On January 15th my mother was taken to hospital in an ambulance and it turned out she has pulmonary embolism 😢😢😢,
On January 22nd me and Allan celebrated our Love Day (already 2 years and 9 months together!) in Muuga Löwenruh. The food there is good, except for khachapuri. I was cold and so I sat all that time in Allan’s cardigan. Ivanka was also with us. We ate so well that back at home we ate the cheesecake and berry cake meant for the evening only the next day.
On January 27th we said good-bye to uncle Peeter at Pärnamäe crematorium.
Peeter Ennet, Image provided by: MTÜ Eesti Geoinformaatika Selts (ESTGIS)
There have also been all kinds of daily events… With Ivanka we have gone to clay class, also to Laulasmaa SPA, with Allan we have gone to Mustamäe 21+ SPA, Estella travelled on February 6th for two weeks to violin camp to Madeira. I have been sewing, reading and renovating the house, gone to massage, to the dental hygienist and to the beauty salon. In January we went to Õnnepalee (Tallinn Vital Statistics Department) to hand in the applications for marriage, we are planning our wedding trip, etc..
February 14th, Valentine’s Day
So yesterday was Valentine’s Day..
I prepared such a dinner table:
Santa Maria egg noodles, fresh salad (cabbage, tomato, sweet pepper, Fringilla mungoa-raddish sprouts, 3frutti baby spinach, Hansa Herbs basil, strawberries), for sauce Farmi sour cream and Santa Maria Crispy Chicken seasoning mix). Along with it also fresh green onion (Minu Maitse) and cottage cheese (Alma). For drinks Kadarbiku fresh carrot juice.
For Ivanka and Allan I got red tulips as a gift, as well as Super Summ lottery tickets.
Now I must stop, Ivanka and Allan will be home any minute. I’ll take a look at what is happening on the stock exchange market, will prepare supper and then me and Allan will head to Drama theatre to see the play “Strangers”.
(in my next blog I will talk more about the renovations, the sewing, and perhaps conclude something about last year’s events on the stock exchange market 😱)
That’s all for this time, hugs!
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