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Monday, February 15, 2010

Carnival and Valentines Day


We are in carnival days.
I don't like it.
When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to make me nice clothes for these days: a fairy, a ladybird, a butterfly...So many nice things.
Now I don't like it and I always make the effort to dress the girl that is in the first years at school because it's required that they are dressed for carnivals ' friday. So my little one was a stawberry. I would like to show you but since I decided not to post their faces in the internet, I can't.

Carnival will go untill tomorow, the last day, followed by Ashes Wedensday with fasting. Because here most people say they are catholics but they don't even know what is to be a catholic, most people don't fast. I do. If any catholic is reading this I say: have courage and fast. It's good for your soul. God doesn't need our fasting but we do. We need to fast for our sins.


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On Valetines Day.
It was not a thing of our culture but shops thought it was a good way of making some more money and began to fill the shops of valentines things and now everybody buys them.


First it was nothing for me buy when I married an englishman it became a bit important .


So, yesterday my husband gave the beautiful chocolate box you can see.


Pitty I couln't take a nice picture but it will give one idea of the beauty.

He invited my parents to lunch with us.

Camembert, Stilton and Cheddar
Looks like a turkey, so big it is
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Can you see the steam?

Apple crumble. The apple made by me and the crumble by my 8 years old girl.
Coconut cake, given by my mother.

It was such a good day.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

From Madeira Island

My husband gave me.
He went to Madeira Islans and come back with these beauties to me.
Aren't they beautiful?


Read about Madeira Island here and here.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

6 years old

I'm very sorry to not going to visit blogs as I would like. Between working outside, taking the girls to schools - each one in a different school - taking the big one to the station so she will take the train everyday to university in Lisbon, shopping and homemaking, there's not much time left.
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Last sunday it was my little girl birthday. She is now 6, praise the Lord.
We invited a lot of friends from her school and they were very happy here, eating, playing and seeing a movie.
She likes so much Kitty from Hello Kitty that I ordered a cake with it on and most friends gave her present related to Kitty.
Even the napkins and paper glasses had her on them.
She was very pleased.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

I'm coming back

Slowly...

Saturday, January 23, 2010

I'm still here

Maybe you are thinking that I gave up my blog.
No.
The problems it's just that computer needed a little fixing and the computer man, as always, is late in bringing it bqack to me. Next time I need I'll ask for another man, this one is so slow. I will tell my husband that I don't want that one anymore.
Well, first, I need my computer back!
See you next week - I hope.

Friday, January 1, 2010

A New Year

Begining the year with Our Lady, the Mother of Our Lord.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year


Credits: Cute Colours

Cindy at My Romantic Home is having a party called 2009 A year in Review. So I'll join now.

January
A month of cooking and flowers. And my little girl's birthday.
In this picture, a rose plant my mother gave me.





February

Valentine's Day. Some red roses my husband gave me.

March

More cooking.

April
My oldest one birthday: 18!

May

Flowers everywhere.
June

Another birthday. It's like that in a big family home.

And summer it's here.

July

My husband's birthday and summer holidays.

August

Still thinking on our wonderful holidays, I posted about Oporto.

September was a month almost without posting. My computer was not well.
October
A nice month full of birthdays: my nephew, one of my girls (15 yo) and mine.

A month when I could look to summer and feel it was in the past. Cooler days began and it was crumble time.

November

Planning Christmas, buying presents and wrapping them.

December
Christmas time.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

This Christmas


Since 21 December I don't know what is to go to the Internet.
Tidying and cleaning,



(isn't that shining?)
buying more presents, wrapping them, buying food of all kinds, making things... A bit of a stress.
My family came to my house to the Consoada, the Christmas Eve dinner, very important here.
They came also for Christmas lunch. I didn't tale any pictures of the dinner or the lunch. I completely forgot.

The only thing I can show you is my husband preparing the quailes and the goose.

I hope next Christmas will be better and more peaceful - we had some problems - but, in the whole - it was good.

Praise the Lord.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Wednesday, outdoor and indoor

Yesterday was a good day. My girl sang very well with her frieds from school and, as her class is very international and multicultural, the music teacher choose some music from countries where some children came, por instance, Romenia and China. There is also a gipsy boy that performed the most wonderful drum solo - he played with his hands. It was amazing as it was played by his own heart with absolut freedom. In the end the audience was clapping and shouting.
Very nice.

Today, for A Souther Daydreamer who usualy has an Outdoor Wednesday and that, in this month of December, wants also inside, because of Christmas, go these pictures of today's post.

So, I have an outside full of rain and a Christmas inside with my tree, once again, today taken at night and with no flash. I'm still strugling with my new camera but in the end it came out nice.