Уже третья неделя как мы вернулись из отпуска. По приезду, попала в колесо, как белка. Вот только сейчас немного можно перевести дух ( Read more... )

Every 2nd Sunday of the month, MIA has a family day with various activities for the kids.  Every month they have a different theme.  I took kids to the three previous days and can't wait to go there in September.  What a wonderful place to spend time with kids, find interesting art pieces, make art and hangout together ( Read more... )

"Есть одна старая хасидская история о человеке, который вёл разговор с Господом о Рае и Аде.  <Я покажу тебе Ад", -с этими словами Господь ввёл человека в красивый банкетный зал, полный истощённых, злых, отчаявшихся людей, сидящих вокруг больших круглых столов на которых стоят вкуснейшие и ароматные яства, которых хватило бы на всех.  У человека ( Read more... )

End of 2011!  What a year?!

So much happened, life was boiling and at times I couldn’t catch up and needed a tune up.  There were few weddings and a lot of funerals; financial and relationship ups and downs in my family; wonderful friends;teaching ballet; acting in a play; amazing vacations, with family to CA and Mexico and my amazing trip to Israel ( Read more... )

Last week was super eventful at home and at work.  My sister came from CA for a wedding; my cousin-in-law (very good friend of my sister) got married on Thursday night.  It was a very beautiful wedding that she managed to plan in 1.5 week!!!   The wedding started after 8pm because of the post and we left after midnight.  We also got invited to some ( Read more... )

On Sunday, we had a busy and very warm day.  After spending day at home on Saturday resting, I was determined to have adventures on Sunday.  Kids woke up at about 8am, by the time we got dressed and ate breakfast it was almost 10am.  My friend and I agreed to take kids to Macy’s annual holiday display show.  I have heard about this show but never ( Read more... )

I celebrated Yom Kippur with our family this year.  On Friday, I was feeling guilty that my in-laws will come over and I will feed them while they supposed to fest, even though I know they are not observant but it would have been on my conscience.  So, I asked Boris to invite them earlier.  We ate and finished with the desert right at 7:20pm.  I ( Read more... )

I am exhausted after this weekend.  The weather is not helping.  On Friday we got real cold Fall weather over the weekend it has been windy and weird, today it was raining on and off.  Gloomy all day. 
I don’t like long weekends when we have no plans.  This one was one of them.  It was real labor day for me.  I have been laboring alas working ( Read more... )

This weekend has been pretty tiring for me.  I have been cooking, serving food, cleaning, watching kids, listening to some troubled people’s stories and now I am totally exhausted. I don't need to cook for the next week since I made enough food for a week (I think).

On Friday, we had a professional photo shoot of our family at our house.  We ( Read more... )

This was a fun weekend!

We started partying on Friday night at the restaurant Baku.  It was Boris’ grandpa’s 95th birthday.  He looked great!  He did not change in his appearance since I met him for the first time about 15 years ago.  Of course he complains of some aches and pains here and there but walks and talks and thinks and even remembers ( Read more... )