Baking Ginger Bread Cookies

Yesterday we baked ginger bread cookies. It's Estonian tradition to bake ginger bread cookies at Christmas time. Jacob was very exited and eager to help. Baking cookies is so much fun!



Jacob was cutting funny shapes with cookie cutters and placed them all neat and nice on the tray, ready to go in the oven.
First tray-full was for testing of course. It was hard to stop eating. Just like Cookie Monster from Sesame Street!
We made a lot of cookies that day! Plenty for everybody!

Pictures tell a thousand words

.... well I hope anyway because I've been a bit lazy/busy lately to write so instead here are a few pictures....

Some pics from autumn 2007

Luna Park. Funfilled day





NUTELLA!!!!! yummy ;-P

Coutchpotatoes

Birthday and House warming....

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and this is what I got for my birthday :) veeeery nice! perfect for my upcoming holiday! just what I needed :) :) :)

A special Thank You to Carmela for cooking and cleaning and organising a lovely dinner for me!!!

Mothers Day

This year we celebrated Mothers Day with Joe, Lisa, Anthony and Matthew. We had a lovely lunch in Watsons Bay. It was all good, until Jacob got tired and decided to have a tantrum in the park - I had to have a serious talk with him. After that we took a little scenic walk to the lookout point and then headed back to our place for dinner. It was a lovely day and here are the pics

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso in Sydney

Dalai Lama is a Mongolian title meaning 'ocean of wisdom'. Tibetans believe that the Dalai Lama is an enlightened being, who has chosen rebirth as a way to be of benefit to all living beings.

The Dalai Lama was born to a peasant family on 6 July 1935 in the small village of Takster in the north-east province of Amdo. At the age of two, he was recognised as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, and at the age of six, began his monastic education in Lhasa. In early March 1959, in front of 20,000 scholars, the Dalai Lama passed his final examination to qualify as a Geshe, or Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy, with honours.

In 1950, the Chinese army invaded Tibet. Although he was only 15 years old at the time, the Dalai Lama was called upon by the Tibetan Government to take full political responsibility as Head of State and Government of Tibet.
The Dalai Lama and his immediate family escaped Tibet and crossed the border into India on 30 March 1959, where he was granted asylum.

The Dalai Lama did not travel outside India until 1967, when he visited Japan and Thailand. Since then, he has visited more than 45 countries, giving Buddhist teachings and talks on a wide variety of spiritual and ethical topics and urging world leaders to assist him in bringing about a peaceful resolution to the Tibetan situation.

On 6th of June The Dalai Lama arrived in Perth and has spread his message of love, compassion and tolerance all over Australia.

The Dalai Lama gave his last public address in Australia this morning in Sydney’s Domain, and despite threatening skies, the sun shone and around 12 000 people (including us) came to hear one of the great leaders and thinkers of our time. Funny enough, only few minutes after His Holiness' speach had ended, all of the sudden, heavy rain started to pour down. It's been raining on and off all day. It was raining all night yesterday as well. Coincidence?!?

Mother's Day

Sunday was Mother's day in France. So once again we were all gathered at my parents for a lovely Sunday ... Poor Mum, this is not how it should work, having so many people for lunch, she should rest on Mother's day. Unfortunately for them we couldn't have had lunch all together in my tiny flat. And nothing is better than a beautiful garden and playing soccer with the kids when summer is almost here !

Next article I'll have to post photos of my new flat. I still don't have much furniture but at least I can give you an idea ;-)

A Sunday at home!