Update to the post below (for Dili)

Luca in the first night spent in the new house (he is covered with my pashmina!):)

More pictures

More pictures from the back yard (I've seen they had success!). This time from last year, our first festive BBQ after we moved in!

OK...I start with pictures from...the back yard, first!:)

We have a little back yard, where there is a crowd of pots, and where we have a nice table for the long summer nights. There we also put the little car dvd, and we watch some live concerts (A-HA, Cesaria Evora),very suitable in the summer breeze , with a nice cup of ice-cream and a glass of...something good (in our case, soft drinks)! Well, now there is no summer, ice-cream we eat once a week...but I still like to look and take care at the flowers in this little yard, and longing for better, sunny days...

Miss Bateman - Clematis

These are my favourite flowers that are just opened! The wind seems to be envious with my beautiful garden and tries to make some damage! I hope my beautiful Clematis will be stronger and continue to adorn our house door, and hopefully climb up to the balcony!

I hope I will get to plant this year Clematis Pasi Flora and Crystal Fountain. There are approximately 450 kinds of Clematis, and I...love most of them!

We are ready to party!!

In the weekend we are going to party,party,party!! We celebrate the birthday of Luca: 2 years!!!

Today we went shopping for decorations and other stuff. The theme colours of the party are going to be bright yellow and even brighter orange, not that this is the preferance of the boy but hippie mama's! From napkins to Chinese lamps hanging mostly everywhere, including the tree, to candles and table cloths. There are gonna be a lot of Chinese lamps in all the shapes, colours, sizes, with or without light, a "Happy birthday" guirlande and a flagline, balloons, but mostly and the most important, a lot of gifts!! And, yeah, the Winnie the Pooh birthday cake!!!!!! With creme brule and chocolate mouse cream!!! the sin of all the sins, and even sweeter than all the sins together, and damaging like all the penitence someone does for doing all the sins!!! HAHAHA!! you will see pictures! Ah, yes, and Sunday is "The mother's day" (very important celebration here!) and mommy is going to get a new bike (with a basket in front and a babyseat in the back), as the mountain bike that I have is not appropriate anymore for my lumbago back!

Brocante in Fays

Last week - good and bad, like in life...

Last week we had good and bad, a mixture that kept us busy, worried, sad and happy! Last saturday, we had some guests and a very tasty BBQ, but also we invited our guests to come with us for the "open door day", at some schools (kindergartens) that invited us for that date. Here, there is the custom that schools and kindergatens organize an "open door day" and they invite the families with children for a visit, so that people can choose the school that seems most suitable for their children. We visited just two, because the second one won our heart, and we were so lucky that this school is the closest to our place also (just 4-5 min. walking!). In the moment we entered the door, we were welcomed very nicely, by smiling, young people with obvious interest for their work and a lot of love for children. The vice-director took his time (more than 1 hr.) to give us a complete tour of the school kindergarten and school)and show us everything, explain us all, give us a small treat, introducing us all the staff, making us familiar with the surroundings, the beautiful playiong ground, all the rooms, all the facilities, etc!! And what was more important, we could hardly take Luca away from there!And then, it hit us!! Our baby is gonna go to "school"!! He is not a little baby anymore, he starts his life, first steps in life!! Overhelming! Sunday we have been to Leuven, just a short visit, and did some very good shopping!

Monday-dentist day! I felt nothing, had a lot of fun with my dentist, so....too good to be true, yet it happened!

After a couple of days - chiropractor! Yes, I got myself a nice lumbago! Again lot of fun (not when she cracked my joints thou...), and after the session was done, my wonderful husband came with an wonderful idea: what about going to Durbuy ( I was complaining that I miss already the mountains since last month when we were in Cochem), spending the night there, and coming back next day! Yupppiiii!!! Durbuy is the smallest town in the world, it is located in the Ardennes, and I love it sooo much! Even though it is so small, all the corners, every inch is a "picture"!! We took a lot of pictures, therefore I made a folder and put them on Picasa, you must know by now to find them in the slide bar!It was a fairy tale! The window of the hotel was facing the "market place", and I enjoyed to see the people and the restaurants in the night! next day we left in a village that was around 20 km away from Durbuy, and we found there a brocante (flea market). We enjoyed a lot, it was really pitoresque to see so many people coming to see this flea market in such a little village, where the streets didn't even have names!! And it was full of cars and visitors!! Normally I don't like such places, find the objects there old and ugly, and I wouldn't spend 1 euro there! Pascal likes them, he still hopes that one day he is gonna buy something very valuable with very little money (there are a lot of legends about that....). And now, here we are back, ready for another week!! Oh yes, at the end of the week we have a very important party: Luca will be 2 years old!! We bought already the main gift - a new bike!! But don't tell him!!!

It is happening to them,also...

Papa bear is falling asleep while making love!!! HAHAHA!! But look at the face of mama bear: she is like saying: oh, no, not again!!!

An angel called Susan Boyle

People love the stories with underdogs! And when the story is also true, it becomes a hit!! This is the story of Susan Boyle, a rising star in England, a woman who was never kissed in her 47 years of life, who kept her innocence and purity, but not in a retardat way! I heard many beautiful voices, there are a lot of singers with incredible, exceptional voices, but I don't burst into tears by listening to them, like I did when I first heard Susan Boyle! I was thinking she must be an angel, but if she was one, she probably wouldn't be so ugly! Or maybe (the thought continued itself) our eyes cannot see the beauty of angels, therefore we must feel it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

HRISTOS A INVIAT!!

Paste fericit!!!!

Am fost la dentist, si...surpriza surprinzatoare, dintele este perfect sanatos, dar nush cum dracu o bucata de gingie s-a dezlipit de pe masea, ceva mancarica a intrat sub ea, si hopa, abcesul e gata!!! In fine (v-am spus asta ca sa nu credeti ca ma distrez si ma simt bine...nu taticu! Pai ce,degeaba ii zice saptamana patimilor?). Altfel va doresc un Paste fericit, lumina, bucurie si impliniri!

Good morning sunshine!!

Hello everyone!! We are fine, and we celebrated the catholic Easter ( a little too much...poohew!). and yesterday we had administrative day, meaning going to some banks for renewing some papers, insurances, canceling others...boring stuff like this! Otherwise, myself I have a terrible toothache (started 2 days ago), but I can see my dentist only Monday! Probably by tomorrow I will not be able to stand it anymore and go see another doctor, as the pain doesn't go away with anything! Otherwise, Luca and Pascal are ok, and we enjoy the beautiful weather here, and the first flowers that the strawberries plant have!! Yes, guys, envy us, we have strawberries plants (with flowers!!) and a tomato plant that also has flowers!! Hihihi!! No other news, we try to keep it low profile, stay more outside to lose the extras from the chocolate fondu (oh yes, it was greeeeaaaat!) and the bbq from the Easter! Now we are back to vegetables dishes, salads and fruits. Also good, but honestly, I am looking forward to the next bbq over two weeks when we have guests again! How do you prepare yourself for the Orthodox Easter? I really miss the crowd in the streets at midnight, the light of the million of candles, the people celebrating, eating Easter eggs, and feeling the spring night caressing my skin!!

I have a head ache!! How unfair life can be....

I was reading on the news site that the legacy of 750 million dollars (yes, you read well, it is seven hundred fifty million dollars!!!!!) that Kurt Cobain left behind him, it is kind of disappeared...!!! That stupid bitch (who killed him, in my opinion that I formed after seeing a movie that was banned for a long time) of his ex wife, made all kind of schemes, buying houses at a low price from people who couldn't afford to pay their loans, to re-sell them for a better price...and wash some money ("poor victim!"), and of course, with her cocaine damaged brain was crooked!! Now, they can trace "only" 30 million!

People, I'm going cookoo!!! Why, WHY in the name of God, will want someone who has such a fortune, to "make business" in order to make more money??!!!! I read somewhere that a person with a regular, average life, spends around 2 million in a life time, not considering the interest from the bank in case you would have this money (that is why I said that if I would win 6 million at lottery, I wouldn't work for a boss for a second more in my life). So, ok, "they" have a lot of "expenses", let's say they spend 100 million! We are talking here about 7-8 lives of huuuuuge luxury...so....what a f..ck you want, Courtney Love??!!!! I cannot believe that a stupid bitch, slut, drug addict like Courtney Love is soooooo ridiculously rich, after the guy who was "the value", "the artist", is rotting in the ground!! I cannot believe that all this guy accomplished in such a short life, in such a short creation time, but so strong, that still influences the whole humanity on artistic level even after 15 years from his death, is mocked, spent, used for all kind of stupid, vane "stuff" by an paranoid slut!! That she has all the luxury in the world, while Kurt was ashamed to invite his old friends (that he never forgot after becoming famous) in the limo, being ashamed of his wealth! Yes, he was and remained till the last moment of his life the most modest person possible. Money didn't change him a bit! He lived for his art (and drugs, it's true) just like he did before being rich! How fair life can be? There must be life after death, there must be JUSTICE FOR ALL!!

New pictures

I have changed the pics on Picasa, and the place of the slide show on the blog! Now it is the first on the side bar! You can see the pics from Germany! Enjoy!

Trier and Koblenz

We are back!!

Hellooooo everybody!!! We are back!! What can I say, it was great,great,great!!! Beautiful bungalow, nice weather, goooood and cheap food, nice swimming pool from where you could admire the mountains in the surroundings through the huge windows all around. Nice trips with the bike along the water, nice towns around - we also saw Trier and Koblenz. If you have the opportunity, go without a doubt. Ah yes, and for who is interested, all the hills around are Full, but I mean FUUUULLLL of wine vines!! And there are hundreds of tasting places for the wine!! Unfortunately none of us drink so we can't tell you anything about the wine or beer! But the cola light was good!! Hahahaha!! OK, I will let the pictures talk!

Mini vacation

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We are going in vacation tomorrow! I don't know where! It is a surprise for my birthday. We come back on Friday. Have a wonderful week everybody!!!!

The simplicity of good taste

I was born and raised in Romania where everything is colorful: the interieurs, the language, the temper, the ideas, the humour, the nature! Not Africa style colourful, but flasy enough! In the apartment I lived with my parents it was a whole collection of colours in a million little objects, some useful some "decorative". In our living room red was fighting with black and mosterd-yellow, there was some blue also here and there, then white and natural shades, and...ah, I should not forget some more red!! Bathroom was blue, white and very crowded. In the kitchen you could find red, blue, a little pink, white, beige. My bedroom was mostly turquoise, white, brown, beige, but also a little red, and green. It is not that you could find all these colours on the walls or in the furniture, but the apartments were (are!) so small, and people have so many small, big,medium objects on a square meter, each with its own colour(s), that the vertigo of this Babylonian "decorative creation" MUST affect your brain at some level, in some bad way! Yet, nobody seemed to mind! We were so used with this "style", that in the moment I started to live here, the interiors I visited seemed boring and without personality to me! A lot of natural/neutral colours, a lot of white, and also some strong colours. But the strong colours were not "fighting" with anybody, the way I used to see around me! I learnt to refine my taste, and even though I still love colours, the way I combine them is totally different now. I learned to recognize and appreciate harmony and to rest my eyes when I look around me! Hey West, meet East!

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Saltarello

Melodia care mi-a inspirat pictura cu acelasi nume!