Breakfast to Beautification / Valentines & First Day of School

Blog Post from February 2021

My friend invited me to breakfast one morning, but she had other things up her sleeve that I didn't know about.

After we finished breakfast and tea and more tea, she asked if I would like to go with her to her threading appointment.  

"Uuumm...ok."

As we walked into her salon, she said, "You should get your face done."

I was SO nervous, simply because I had never done it before, but I allowed the lady to thread me. 

I asked that she would only thread my forehead and eyebrows and not my cheeks.

My friend thought I should get my whole face done, but I giggled and laughed enough through what I did get done, that I'm pretty sure this nice lady was glad to be done with me.

As a side note, SO many women here get full body waxing/threading done each month. 

It is quite the booming business.

February 3, 2021

For Valentine's Day, Doug and I decided to try a new restaurant that had just opened. We went early enough that we didn't have to have a reservation, but we did get to take advantage of the live violin music and unique menu.

The menu was set (salmon or steak), and so we just got what they were serving.

This was our soup with cold vegetables on a piece of toasted bread.

This was my salmon with some dyed, red, crunchy, coral-looking, edible decoration.

Doug, on the other hand, had a black coral-like decoration stuck into red, heart-shaped mashed potatoes.

The food wasn't great, and we haven't been back, but it was definitely an interesting experience.

While we were in America, it was such a blessing that Keira's French school was online because the teacher recorded the classes every day, and Keira could listen to them all and keep up with work after she woke up each day.

When we returned in January, they were still online, but on February 15th, Keira went back for the first day in-person. As per tradition, we like to take the kids out for ice cream on the first day of school, so when Doug picked her up, even though it was freezing outside, they went for ice cream!

She ended up only going face-to-face three days a week, but it was certainly better than nothing!

 First Day Physically in 3rd Grade (February 15, 2021)

"A Lovely Leg Up"

I have no clever title for today's post because it's about so many things.  I don't have enough pictures of any one topic, so I combined three topics in one.

The "Lovely" part is obvious from the pictures.  

The ladies we have "tea" with met together for breakfast on Valentine's Day, and a beautiful lady from Syria hosted.  

She had a special cake made, and then she made other desserts and dishes on top of that.  

We turned off the lights and ate by candlelight for part of the breakfast.
She also bought each of us a rose.

I want to brag on her for just a moment.

That painting on the wall with the beautiful purple flowers...

She did that (and several others in the house).  Amazing talent!

The "Leg" part of the title is about Kylie's injured knee.
Her knee displacement occurred on October 1, 2018, and this was taken on February 10, 2019.
The x-ray is backward, so her injured left leg is actually on the right.  You can see that the density and the size of the muscle is reduced in that leg.  This was about nine weeks from the Spring performance, and the doctor told her "no dancing," and get in the gym and start "doing leg weights."

So we got her a gym membership and she went faithfully to re-gain her strength, hoping to be able to perform at the end April.

Now, for the "Up" part...Caleb.

Starting at the beginning of 2019, we had a hard time keeping track of Caleb's growth.

Here he is in February standing back-to-back with Karis and me. 

February 20, 2019

And these were taken just a few months ago in November.  

Even though no one is standing up straight, you can see he's taller than both of them.

And I'm pretty sure they don't like that :)

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November 6, 2019