Today I woke up and my sweet husband gave me a brand new coffee cup, it had lot’s of red hearts on it. Every year we celebrate our Valentine’s Day as a big family. I cook a nice Lasagna, some Italian salad and bread. The children pour melted chocolate into the molds and freeze them. It’s all so yummy! Now it’s time to rest for the evening, but before I’ll do that, I will make us some vanilla ice-cream with hot cherries.

It began to snow on Friday night and when we awoke on Saturday morning the Snow Queen has flown over our land and has brought some snow. This is very unusual for this area, so it was a pleasant surprise. Of course snow mans were being build and showed up on every lawn, snow ball fights were on the menu.  The kids all bundled up out they went with a joy only a child can feel. With rosy cheeks they played until they were cold and ready to come in for some hot cocoa. Now as evening falls, kids are ready to sit by the fire, it’s time to reflect and enjoy this beautiful white Valentines.

Please turn off the music at the bottom left to listen to Patrick’s music.

Yesterday Maria has lost her first tooth. She was a brave little girl as I pulled out this wiggle little tooth. We told her she has to put the tooth under the pillow and the Tooth Fairy will bring her a dollar. Rebecca and Maria started wiggling all their teeth, hoping another one would be loose enough so the Tooth Fairy would bring some extra cash. They were thinking business. Today Maria did not want to brush her teeth alone, she wanted to make sure I brush them. I think she is worried they all will fall out if I don’t brush them.

Gestern hat Maria ihren ersten Zahn verloren. Sie war ein sehr grosses Maedchen als ich an ihrem Zahn drehte und drehte und ihn dann endlich ziehen konnte. Wir haben Maria erzaehlt das sie diesen Zahn unter ihrem Kopfkissen legen muss und ueber Nacht kommt dann die Zahnfee und wird ihr dann einen Dollar geben. Nun sind Rebecca und Maria beiden am gucken ob doch noch mehr Zaehne locker sind und gezogen werden koennten. Heute wollte Maria nicht alleine ihre Zaehne putzen, sie hatte angst sie koennten doch alle rausfallen.