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Happy birthday, Mom!

Posted in A lighter side, Birthday on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This little cutie turned 80 years old today!
Happy birthday, Mom.

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Euro-English

Posted in A lighter side on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My friend Toma sent this to me earlier today:
Read with an accent
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the European Union rather
than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and [...]

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The giggles

Posted in A lighter side, Children, Hospital, Orphans on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »

And this is why we go spend time with hospitalized orphans:

Who can not giggle in response to this little one?!

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Free photo booth fun

Posted in A lighter side, Photography on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Chuckle for the day.

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Skyline chili

Posted in A lighter side, Anniversary on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Skyline chili is celebrating their 60th anniversary!
(Um, that’s really close to my age, and that surprises me. I thought it had been around FOREVER. Okay, so maybe we’ve BOTH been around forever. How did this happen…I mean living for so long!)
Anyway, I was just alerted to these 60th anniversary moments and just [...]

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More Balcony Cafe

Posted in A lighter side, Balcony Cafe on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You just never know who might drop in at the Balcony Cafe. Actually we had a meeting scheduled for this morning with Jane and Barbara and decided to move it out to the balcony.
This marks the first coffee, tea and cookie meeting held at the Cafe.
NOTE TO SELF: Schedule meetings earlier rather than [...]

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Stoddards at the Cafe

Posted in A lighter side, Friends on September 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

What a fun evening! Doug, Suzie and Jodi came by for an early dinner. We didn’t want to postpone getting together until we had a whole evening (our schedules don’t exactly mesh!), so we grabbed what we could — a Sunday afternoon/evening.

We moved our kitchen table to the Balcony Cafe and had chips [...]

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Here, kitty!

Posted in A lighter side, Kyiv, Ukraine on September 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Part of my language lesson today was supposed to be visiting a museum. This particular museum was on our list to visit in the spring but it was closed for renovation. Tatjana was so excited to see that it was open again. It is called something along the lines of the museum [...]

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Jamie and Dasha

Posted in A lighter side, Dasha, Family, Jamie on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Jamie and Dasha arrived at the beginning of the month and spent a few days in Kyiv before heading south to Crimea for 10 days or so. They returned to the city yesterday evening (12-hour drive) and are now trying to fit so many things into a couple of days. They fly out [...]

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Visitors

Posted in A lighter side, Friends on August 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

You just never know who is going to show up at your flat in Kyiv. I mean, really.
How much fun was it to get a call that friends from the D.C. area were in Kyiv and then they actually took the time to come over for coffee and cookies?! George and Linda have [...]

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