saturday morning

This morning we are just home and have been making breakfast... Laszlo loves to help in the kitchen so I had Oatmeal on the stove and he was stirring and said look Mama, Bubbles! It's making Bubbles! Oh, they are hiding. Then I put the lid on...why are the Bubbles hiding? So then it was time to eat and Laz wanted a piece of ice to cool down his Oatmeal as usual but the ice was moving everywhere he said :) Then he wanted to help wash the dishes or rather play with the soap on the pan. He said he was making fireworks ... he loves them! His 7th birthday cake was also a firework cake made with gummy worms. It was a bit ghetto but he loved it and helped make and decorate. I did not get my mom's cake decorating skills... so I usually make cup cakes which is much easier and each child can decorate his own.

Well, It's been a while since I've written anything on this lovely blog of mine that I really intended to keep up for you all that live far away and don't get to be apart of our everyday life... sorry, I need to be better at keeping up with this. So I guess I need to try and fill you in since October.
Mmm...where to begin? The autumn time was nice and full of many lovely days, walks prep for another wonderful and yummy Thanksgiving (but I did miss the closeness of my family). My lovely Swedish Man came back from working at home to live here and work alongside of our team here. We (us ladies that are on running the boys home) have been trying to make it a bit more homey and get ride of the incredibly sick cockroaches. My man has been helping too adding dimmer lighting and some fabric on the ceiling to keep the sound level down from our energy full boys :) They are 5, 6, & 7 years of age and it makes for quite an interesting house... Many funny table conversations or rather discussions about how to say Ketchup, or how fireworks sound. Boys, they are so different then girls. I have really enjoyed this age though since you can do more together... playing games, baking together, cleaning (maybe not so fun). And all of our boys are ridding bikes too and they love it! One of my wonderful friend's mother was able to get some donated and what a great way for our kids to play outside and release much of their little boy energy.
Ok, then it was the Christmas season which is always busy here as we are getting gifts and food together for those that have much less then us, delivering them to those families, preparing for the Swedish tradition of Santa Lucia to preform and sing for our friday night worship / game night for our youth, the Christmas party for the whole organization, and the old folks home which I enjoy the most! They really appreciate it and it was good for our kids too. They took a bit to warm up but then as we left each room Laszlo and some of the other would say Merry Christmas (in Romanian of course) or while singing Laz would go ask if some of the men and woman wanted him to sit by them... what a beautiful thing to see your children loving on others. And then we sang to some children... Oh Jesus, when will it change? When will parents keep their children and love them?
Christmas time... cookie baking, tree decorating (mine was a real and wonderful gift from a secret santa), cmas music, dressing up as santa, Christmas day walk to deliver cmas shoe boxes to a family we love but has much much less then us. When I walk into their one room house that is smaller then my bed room I am extremely grateful for my 2 room apartment and realize that I have nothing to complain about in size of living quarters. Christmas day was spent with my good friend Katie and her Mother and many other friends. Eating together, playing stress Uno, talking and exchanging gifts! Old friends came to visit :) and New year had come!
Then winter had come and left some for sledding and snow angels. The excitement of snow is new everyday with kids! Then we had birthdays, school free days, and gadac (cockroaches) exterminators, and vacation weekend up in the snowy mountains.
Now March has arrived and spring is on it's way! That means warmer weather with more time outside, cups of tea with friends while the kids play, walks, bike rides, baby chicks, apple blossoms, color added to all the gray, lighter steps as you walk...or maybe even a skip!
This turned out to be quite a long post... but I hope that all of those that read it and have been wondering how I've been and what I've been up to will enjoy and give it a read.
Happy Spring to all!