I grew up in Moldova. After the walls of “Soviet Jericho” came down we had lots of foreigners passing through our home. As we often enjoyed the company of Englishmen, they knew better than to travel without tea in former USSR. English people take their tea time seriously. Moldovans take their tea bags seriously. Continue reading
It’s Sunday morning. Our girls are sitting at their little pink table for breakfast. To their side, is our fridge full of magnets collected from various countries we traveled to. This is their short and deep conversation.
Few months ago, there was an uprise in Romania over a law the government had passed. Some people didn’t agree with the content of the law. Others didn’t mind the law, but were deeply troubled with the fact that it was passed quickly and at night.Continue reading
There are so many ways to categorize people. Some do it based on personality: introvert, extrovert, ambivert; others base it on weight: slim, slightly-overweight, obese. But, there’s another category: the either you love them, or you hate them category. And, Jesus fit into that one. People either loved him, and were willing to follow Him, or they hated him with all their guts.Continue reading
In getting my mind ready for Easter, the greatest moment in history, I was a tad curious on how Jesus was busy a few days before He had to suffer for the humanity. Ok, I confess, maybe I was more than just a tad curious. I took out my study Bible, a few of my husband’s commentaries, dictionaries of the Bible, and opened up various translations of the Bible (stumbled upon Hebrew Names Version Bible too). Continue reading
There’s a silly Veggie Tale song that says “We’re busy, busy, dreadfully busy/ You’ve no idea what we have to do./ Busy, busy, shockingly busy/ Much, much too busy for you.” Continue reading
Last week our family had the privilege to travel to Greece to a conference. It felt good not to cancel this trip. We drove over 700 miles (around 1200 km) to get from Bucharest to Athens. Continue reading
Our daughters are in the Romanian school system. Some teachers have an interesting approach to mistakes written in a notebook. When there are mistakes on the page, the page looks messy. When the page looks messy, the teacher tears that page out. Why? So that the notebook will look nice and tidy.Continue reading
A month ago a friend asked how we are doing as a family. In my feeling good moment I kept on sharing that it’s been great to have a break from our dramatic events of last year. Continue reading
One day, one of our girls started correcting her sister saying “Stop it. Stop it right now.” The tone of voice and the vocabulary sounded way too familiar, until it dawned on me that she was mirroring what I would say to them when those moments come in parenting where the only thing left in you is to say “STOP IT!”