Peace amidst the storms

Have you ever been walking along and fallen down so hard?

Most of us haven't since toddler-hood.

 Mr Elskan's first steps.

(circa mid 1970's)

Today we recieved a blow and we have certainly fallen down.

Pabbi has lost his job.

Economic cutbacks by his workplace have created a loss of job for several employees. We happened to be in that cut.

Despite this blow, we are at peace.

We thank God for this.

And we will soon be up and walking as if we had never fallen.

In this we are confident.

Sew Right

Exploring the art of sewing -
with Sport's balls.

Sticky Stuff

Samuelsky dug deep into his Easter basket and found the biggest treat -

a sticky marshmallow lollipop.

We tried to encourage him to share it -

but he wouldn't let it go -

not until he ate every sickly sticky ounce of it.

Surprisingly, a bellyache did NOT ensue,

rather just pure enjoyment and delight.

My Lil' Easter Bunnny

For Easter we wove our own paper baskets.

Although they weren't very sturdy they were cute and fun to make. 

The Easter bunny hid plastic eggs filled with deliciousness.

Easter toys were also left behind.

These delights provided hours of fun for the Lil' Monster.

The Easter Bunny also left new friends behind.

Lil' Monster and Igor (orange animal) now have a new yellow monkey friend.

His name is TWO

(so named by Lil' Monster).

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Turned my back for just one second...

...to check on some office work and turned around to find this.



 Lil' Monster is discovering a love for coloring.

So far he had been doing so well at staying on the page of a coloring book.

I thought he could take his talent to coloring a box for his "mummy" apple. 

Guess he was ready to start coloring

outside of the box.

Celebrating my Man's Birthday

Tonight, I had the chance to sit across from this incredibly handsome man who just knows how to melt my heart. I am one lucky woman to be married to a true-blue VIKING man.

Tonight we celebrated our birthdays - in our traditional fashion:
Just the two of us.

For the first 7 years of our marriage it was only the two of us.
Then our beautiful boy joined us and we get to celebrate as the 3 of us.

But tonight
we escaped,
leaving our beautiful boy with friends,
so that we could have a
fun
romantic
night connecting
and
commemorating
each other's births-
Just the TWO of US.

A Moment in Time