Grandma's Olives

Spring is in the air and Easter is right around the corner!!  Despite going into the cold season ourselves it still feels like spring because all the rain has turned the landscape a lush green and so many flowers are in bloom.  Somehow I love building up the Santa spirit but am having such guilt over telling Kaia about the Easter Bunny.  Seems like such a silly thing to believe.  So Carl has gleefully taken on all sharing of Easter Bunny Fantasia. 

 Today we decorated our first round of Easter Eggs with the most creative people ever.  It was SO much fun.  We did both crayon and wax designs. Kaia was somewhat keen.  I think she will be more into it the second time around.

 While the biguns decorated eggs the lilones got into trouble and we found these awesome sunglasses!!  Who looks like Lennon?

 Obviously everyone gets a turn.  Mommy too but that pic was deleted a long time ago.

 One of the things that we love about living here is that there is absolutely no pressure to keep up with the Jones'.  This is Claudia's new home entertainment system.  Since she has no power at her house (literally no power lines reach the property) she has this battery operated gem.  In the evening they pop on the generator for a bit and charge the batteries.  Quite frankly is is much nicer than ours!!

Interestingly, if you buy a house here that is not connected to the city power lines you have to buy your own transformer, poles, and power lines.  Then it basically becomes the property of the electric company and they charge you for the power.  Ouch.  She is currently waiting for more poles to arrive in the country, there are none right now.  Double ouch.

 But the best part of today was during dinner.  Maybe as a result of the sweet sour cabbage we ate a few nights ago, conversation drifted to my Grandma Heumann and I was telling wonderful stories about how amazing she was.  Kaia was quick to reply with 'my grandma is better' and after some quick banter I explained that being the best grandma is not a competition.  Each grandma has their own wonderful charactoristics and that we celebrate and appreciate what makes each one special.  So what makes my Grandma Heumann special?  Well... there are so many things but we happened to be eating olives and at every fancy dinner she would always let us put olives on our fingers.  Kaia thought that was the best thing EVER.  Giddy excited!!

Theo too.