A fun night

Last night we had a Chinese couple over for dinner.  Their names are Huang and Lisa ( she gave herself an English name ).  They go to our church and just recently Huang became a Believer.  ( An answer to Lisa’s prayers!! )

I just never know what is going to come out of my kids’ mouths!  It makes me nervous sometimes.  Last night Samuel brought out his Go Fish card game.  He said to Huang very enthusiastically, “Mr. Huang you should know how to play this game!!!”    Mr. Huang replied, “Why is that?”   Samuel says pointing to the back of the card game box, “Because it says RIGHT HERE that this game was made in China!! “   Huang burst out laughing, thankfully not offended.   What a fun moment!

This is Lisa.  She is such a sweet Christian young lady.  Sophia just loves her!  She sits with Lisa just about every Sunday.

One of our favorite ladies at our church in Minnesota, Grandma Srader ( as my children lovingly call her ) sent the girls some jewlery-making kits.  So, I pulled them out last night and we had a lot of fun making necklaces and bracelets.

Lisa went home with a couple necklaces and bracelets the kids made for her.

Yesterday also happened to be Independence Day here in Estonia.  The tradition is that everyone eats split pea soup for lunch and these pasteries for dessert.  My husband and at least two of my kids hate split pea soup so I decided not to go with that Estonian tradition.  I went to the grocery store around lunch time and there were about 40 people in line to get these pasteries.  So, I got what I needed and by that time, the line was down to about 6 people and so I got my couple of boxes of these pasteries, too.    They look pretty but Bob and I were trying to figure out what makes these so special??  They’re just a bread-type pastery with a glob of whipped topping and powdered sugar on top.    The day is also know as National Sledding Day – like a big outdoor festival.   I thought it was so neat to see all the people sledding down hills and cross-country skiing on the sidewalks.  It was really fun!