Friday, March 8, 2013

Happy International Women's Day!!

This box of delicious chocolates was a gift to all the female staff from our pastor/religion teacher at school, for International Women's Day.  The note says, in essence, this is for the women only - men, keep your hands off!!  LOL!!  

Tim insisted on taking this picture - yet another example of why I like to TAKE the photos!!  LOL!!  Well, it's me with my International Women's Day gifts - chocolate and flowers.
Ya gotta love this holiday that is celebrated here in Slovakia!!     :-)

I wish I had also taken a photo 20 minutes earlier, before these snowdrops opened up.  They were just little white drops hanging down from the stems.  Then, in the warmth of the room, they opened into these beautiful blossoms before our eyes!  

The snowdrops were freshly picked early this morning from Pat'ka's garden.  They are the very first spring blooms we've seen anywhere!  Pat'ka gave Tim a 'heads-up' about today's significance, and she schemed to clandestinely deliver this sweet little bouquet from her garden to Tim first thing this morning at school, so he could give them to me.  The fragrance was incredibly sweet as well!!  

1 comment:

  1. The blooms are beautiful. . .congratulations on your decision to stay another year in Slovakia! We are sooo happy for you, but sooo happy that you will be home in Iowa periodically as well. Thanks for sharing your spring break travels. We head to Puerto Rico next Thursday (all 5 of us)for spring break. We look forward to sunshine and sandy beaches. I will not be blogging however:)

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