We moved!

 That's right, we moved again. Last year we moved into the Crawford's house after they left, leaving the girls in Victor's house where we had lived for ten years. One year later and we are back in our old bedroom. Last week I painted the repaired wall and we slept in our airconditioned room the next night. We will miss the bedroom with the ensuite and jacuzzi tub, and privacy, but we have a dishwasher and A/C!. 

 After two days of me carrying boxes and bags over and getting some of the boys to carry over a few pieces of furniture we moved over (the Mennonite couch, trading it for the black clickclack couch, the recliner Garry bought from Steve and my bureau- the upright freezer hasn't been moved yet, but it's coming back) I have been figuring out how to get it all organized back into mostly our bedroom, with some stuff in cupboards in the arch room and kitchen/living room. Baby Angelina is now toddler Angelina, so most things need to be up or locked somehow. She loves pulling open the spice rack and taking the big plastic jars out! Valentina and Angelina walked to the village church with us on Sunday morning. 

Well Angelina got a ride, and hung onto Garry's hair tight. Did I ever mention that a lot of Garry's hair fell out after we had covid? He's hair was so thick before and it was about half as thick but it seems to be coming back some now.

Our new neighbors, Oleg and Elena and family, arrived on Thursday, we are really excited about them working with the students (he is also taking over the business manager job form his brother in Dnepro). They have rearranged the house, changing the former spare room into the office and the sitting room next to the master bedroom into the children's bedroom. Grandpa has the bedroom we finished last month. He's been keeping busy mowing lawns. The one over here and the back piece by the garden had gotten four feet tall.

Friday was Danil's third birthday and  his mother Alonya cooked and invited us to a late night (8:30) dinner  at their house. We brought Angelina since her mother had to milk the cows and Papa Andrey had not made it back to watch her. Ever since he came back to work in the village last year, he does most of the baby watching when she's working.

Monday was our usual student dinner night and I made salads and we cooked hotdogs over the fire with cake for dessert. Victor, Oleg, Lena and their sons were all there (it was in their yard) this week, but all the Mahzara's were gone to Kirvoy Rog for another brother's birthday party.