Special memories

Where to begin?

So much has happened the past week.

Sunday ~ A day to remember love, hopefully it's not the only one in a year that people do that! ~ 

Valentines was a special day for us. One we won’t soon forget.  We started out the day in Windsor, shopping together, and just enjoying each other’s company. Aldar was very patient as I shopped for jeans, which I must say, usually takes far longer, but this time I found a pair that fit and I could afford reasonably quick. It was a rainy grey day outdoors so shopping was a fine way to spend the morning. We headed for home in the afternoon only to find that our beloved car was out of gas. Of course we discovered this en-route to the gas station. Unfortunately (or was it?) we were stranded on the side of the road. So Aldar headed out to get directions to the nearest gas station and soon returned, but instead of a can of gas in his hand, he had brought me a rose! I do love his spontaneity! He had asked for directions in a florist shop, how great is that?! :D  So I waited again with the car while he ran 2 kilometers to get us a can of gas.Poor guy, he really got his exercise that day.  

Later in the afternoon I went to the local indoor pool with a couple other ladies. First time I’d been swimming in a long time. Swimming is a great way to relax. When we got back our husbands had surprised us by preparing the most exquisite (not sure if this is proper usage of the word) meal ever! It was a four course meal with candles and roses and music and all the works. J

Aldar no longer can use the excuse that he can’t cook. ;) The food was absolutely delicious! Best I’ve had in ages! I am posting some photos of the food, sorry the lighting was a bit dim and I couldn’t seem to find the right setting on my camera. Photos don’t do it justice, the food may I repeat was AMAZING!!!  

 Here are the men cooking. :)

 Aldar making the heart in my soup :)

 The table setup, complete with candles, roses and the most amazing bread and bread-sticks to go with the soup!

Mexican salad with guacamole and goat cheese.

The main dish - Thai Eggplant, yumm!!

And finally dessert -apple something rather with cream on top ;) all I know was it was incredible good!

Such a great night with friends!

Yep, still in love!!!! =D

So there ended our very special day full of memories, I’ll have to write about the rest of the week another time. For now it’s goodnight world!

Thoughts of the day

love my job :) Basically like getting paid to be a housewife; clean, iron, cook, watch the kids. And the family I am working for is lovely. 

I have enjoyed getting to know the the lady and her not so well behaved two year old is of course a hand full, but oh so funny. Hopefully he starts to talk soon and so he can express himself, he gets so frustrated and has his little temper tantrums when he wants his way, or can't express what he wants. I took him outside for a few minutes despite the biting cold wind today. The fresh air and sunshine were great even just for a bit to calm him.

 I can't get over how amazing their house is! The decoration she has done is so brilliant. It has a very rustic and cozy and simple feel, with low beam ceilings an old english cooking stove, sitting room with a fireplace, etc. So yeah....did I say I love my job? :)

Absolutely so happy to finally have work, as small a start as it may be, it feels so great to be working again.   

After supper tonight Aldar and I practiced with Natacha, we'll be playing a flute duet for church this week with Aldar accompanying us on the piano. I must say that playing music together is such fun when you have talented and fun people. 

Aldar went to the gym to work out this evening so I've been here studying Estonian. Language learning can be so frustrating! I keep comparing this to my experience learning Romanian and it just makes me discouraged, so I guess I should stop! I learned basic Romanian in 6 months and after 10 months I  wouldn't say I had mastered the language fluently, but I definitely had no trouble expressing myself or understanding most conversations. Obviously the circumstances in which I learned Romanian were VERY different, not to mention it is a Romance (Latin based) language, so its similarity to Spanish, of which I know a little, helped. And Estonian is in no way, shape, or form similar to anything I know.

 So here I am struggling to learn the 14 different case endings that replace what we have in English as prepositions. So instead of just using a word to describe the situation they change the ending of every word to describe the situation. Hardly seems practical, ha!  In order to add confusion, every word has two forms......when does it all make sense?!! Maybe 10 years from now when I have mastered the language at last! Let's hope it doesn't take that long. I don't want my kids speaking a language I don't understand, that could be really bad! :P 

Ok so as you see, I had a lot of thoughts today.

:) How about a picture to go with all these ramblings. And just because it's Valentines this next week here's a couple photos of a rose I took awhile ago. 

A working women again.

I've got a job! :) I'll be cleaning/cooking/ironing and helping out with the kids of a family who live about a 5 minute walk from the college. They have a 4 month old and a 22 month old, so the Mum has her hands full to say the least! It's just three days a week and babysitting occasionally on the weekends, so I'll try to get some other work on the other days but it's a start and I'm excited for that.
This week has gone so fast. I spent one evening teaching a new friend how to make bread...fun times.  I love going over to visit her and her 3 month old baby. She is such a tiny, sweet little girl and yes, I do love babies. :) But of course not ready for my own yet.

Bread :)

I made bread again this week and thought I would post a couple pictures of the outcome.