Since the Internet here is variable to non-existent, I’ve decided to start typing up blog posts on my laptop and will transfer them to Blogger via my flash drive at some later date. Sorry for the delay, everyone (Mom, I promise I’m not putting all the good stories on Facebook and not on Blogger…last time I just ran out of time to update my blog).
It was raining cats and dogs (possibly literally, there are enough of them around here) for the last half hour or so, but Nadia had given me a plate of fresh blinchiki (thin pancakes), a bowl of strawberries straight from the garden, and a small container of sour cream. Already having a sugar bowl on my table, I added sugar to the sour cream, sliced up the strawberries, and applied the mixture liberally to the blinchiki. It doesn’t get much better than that.
In other food news, Nadia gives me four times what I want and three times what I can eat comfortably, and I still manage to eat about half of the total. Sigh…just as well I’m only here until next Sunday.
Overfeeding aside, I am still convinced that Nadia is destined for some sort of Ukrainian Baptist sainthood. The family is currently without a washing machine, dishwasher, hot water, or car, all of which they had when I was here two years ago. Plus, the kitchen is being remodeled, so Nadia’s using a room in one of the sheds on the property as a “summer kitchen”. And yet everyone is fed, clothed, and transported as needed. All of this with 11 kids at home!
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