Happy Easter 2014!

 I think it is a wonderful Spring time event marking all good in our life. When I was a kid I used to love all the preparations like coloring and painting eggs and baking traditional Orthodox Easter cakes called "Paska". My Mom also decided to bake them herself this year, and I would like so much to try again one of these tasty creations. 

What about me? I am kind of limited this year with just 10 eggs colored and decorated with lovely stickers which I still have from the special Easter decoration sets. Initially I boiled 12.. but I don't know why I always end up with 2-3 eggs completely destroyed. So even remaining ones are not perfect, but still I have Easter eggs in India!!! Yey! So today we will say each other phrases "Hristos Voskrese" - "Voistinu Voskrese" (Christ has Risen!) and exchange kisses into cheeks three times (I like doing it with my D)) as per the Russian tradition, and may be will have Egg game.

A lovely Easter poem father sent in the sms as I am writing this post (in Russian):

Ты яичко золотое на ладошку положи,

И на ушко тихо Богу жизнь свою всю расскажи.

Он поймет и не осудит, и подскажет на перед:

Где соломинку подбросит,

Где на ушко что шепнет.

Лучик солнца шлет с небес:

Радуйся, Христос Воскрес!

Happy Easter to all! Enjoy your day and be happy!

Pleasant Things - Chocolate and A Rainy Evening

When life takes over everything, some other deals go to the background. For the past week I was mostly concentrating on my work, friends, family, which is a pleasant thing, isn't it? However, being a blogger, I have much more than all of this, I have you as well, and the whole world, with which I'm hurrying to share my happiness, and some sadness at times. Coming closer to the title of my post, here are several pleasant things we had last week.

First of them was a very sweet (literally) parcel my husband received from his friend and colleague in Germany. As Western Christian Easter is approaching, she sent us cute chocolate eggs and delicious chocolate bars!

Another pleasant thing was the weather, which still spares us and offers cloudy/rainy days from time to time. Yesterday we simply had a short ride with my D in the evening. It started raining at sunset, and didn't continue for long, though we were able to catch few beautiful moments through the window shield of the car.

I had this nail design, so thought of taking a picture of it too.

We just kept on driving along the streets. The light of the setting sun was amazing...

It became quite dark so that the street lanterns had to be turned on. 

Just a perfect ride, with no particular purpose and ... with the one you love :) Later we went to the Terrace garden, and took many photos there. Oh, there was definitely something to show you, wand that I'm going to do in the next post.

Also I'm thinking of some kind of blog posting plan, and will have one day a week for craft projects and a garden update. Otherwise, I feel very relaxed and have started postponing posts for a week and more. Let's see if it helps me to organize myself better :) Thanks for being with me, dears! 

Have a lovely week ahead!