Watermelon lemonade (of Pinterest inspiration)

Watermelon lemonade is our favorite drink this summer.
I found the recipe somewhere on Pinterest (link) and abused of it ever since.
I changed the original recipe and don't use sugar & water.
Our choice is: 2 lemons' juice + watermelon puree (about 1/4 of a 10 kilos watermelon).
Simply delicious! 
Thanks God for summer, Internet, Pinterest and kids who love fruits ;-)
I hope your summer is great too!
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The Help

First I planned to read it:

and I finished it! This means I really LOVED it ;-) (I start a lot of books and finish only the good ones lately. No time for little things here anymore.)

Then I watched it

and loved it too!

It's about life as it once was in South of the USA; it's about love and being grateful for people in your life; and being kind with people when others are not; and it's about swimming against the tide; and it reminds me of a quote so very dear to me:

(source)

Ah, and don't you ever forget:

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A poem for mother's soul

This is too good and true and touching not to be shared here too.

"To My Grown-Up Son"

by Alice E. Chase

My hands were busy through the day,

I didn't have much time to play

The little games you asked me to,

I didn't have much time for you.

I'd wash your clothes; I'd sew and cook,

But when you'd bring your picture book

And ask me, please, to share your fun,

I'd say, "A little later, son."

I'd tuck you in all safe at night,

And hear your prayers, turn out the light,

Then tiptoe softly to the door,

I wish I'd stayed a minute more.

For life is short, and years rush past,

A little boy grows up so fast,

No longer is he at your side,

His precious secrets to confide.

The picture books are put away,

There are no children's games to play,

No goodnight kiss, no prayers to hear,

That all belongs to yesteryear.

My hands once busy, now lie still,

The days are long and hard to fill,

I wish I might go back and do,

The little things you asked me to.

(source: http://www.memoriesoncloverlane.com/2013/05/encouragement-for-week.html)

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Ilaria, thank you for the fun! (#2)

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Mult timp Ilaria s-a visat prinţ! În ciuda comentariilor celor din jur care îi spuneam că fetiţele sunt prinţese, iar titlul de prinţ le este rezervat băieţilor, ea a continuat luni în şir să-şi poarte mândră "pelerina" roşie de prinţ.
Acest dialog înainte de culcare s-a repetat de câteva ori:
Eu: Nopte bună, îngeraş!
Ilaria: Nu sunt îngeraş!
Eu: Dar ce eşti?
Ilaria: Sunt prinţ. Sunt Prinţul Fericit.
Eu: Noapte bună, Prinţule!
Ilaria: Noapte bună, Mami!

Acum a depăşit acea perioadă şi mai are încă de dat nişte telefoane ca să dea de ştire că acum vrea să fie prinţesă. Mai ales pe Moşu vrea să-l anunţe. El se arătase cel mai revoltat de alegerea ei de până acum.

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Ilaria: Mami, de ce dormi pe perna aia?
Eu: Pe a mea mi-a luat-o Tati.
Ilaria: I-o iaie..... Oaie....
(incercările ei de a spune "ia-i-o")

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Ilaria: Mami, e întuneric la mine în gură?

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Ilaria: Unde dorm avioanele?

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Dacă mănânc usturoi:
Ilaria: Nu mai sta aşa aproape de mine.
Eu: De ce?
Ilaria: Miroşi urât.
Eu: A ce miros?
Ilaria: A mămică.

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Ne pregăteam să plecăm la Mărcuş.
Eu: Haideţi grădinăreselor odată! Hai grădinăreasă mică şi hai grădinăreasă mare!
În hol, Maria o impinge pe Ilaria, iar Ilaria protestează spunând:
Ce o împingi pe grădinăreasă? Unde ai mai văzut tu grădinăreasă împinsă?


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Pe maşină:
Ilaria: A ce miroase în maşină?
Eu: A cremă de mâini.
Ilaria: Şi eu vreau cremă de mâini.
Eu: Dar mâinile tale nu sunt uscate.
Ilaria: Ba da, sunt. Uite aici, la genunchii mâinilor. (şi îmi arată locul de unde încep degetele)
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Of Pinterest inspiration

This was another hard week (after last week, of vacation!), with Ilaria home the last three days due to a stomach flu. My only option was to come fast and often with something new, otherwise the girls would have eaten me alive.

Thanks to Pinterest I am full of ideas ;-)
This is one I was planning for Christmas, but due to lack of a huge box, the idea came to life only today.


Thanks God for Pinterest! We had fun!
(source)
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The Notebook. Wow!!

In case you are romantic and you are prepared to cry your heart out while watching a marvelous movie, watch this:

It's painfully romantic and sweet and real! Loved it so much that I can't wait to watch it again!

"I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts.

I've led a common life.

There are no monuments dedicated to me.

And my name will soon be forgotten.

But in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived.(...)

I've loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough."

"Science goes only so far and then comes God."

"Look, guys, that's my sweetheart in there.

I'm not leaving her.

This is my home now.

Your mother is my home."

P.S. My other favorite movies - here.

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God outsmarted us

I spent the last three months visiting doctors in order to find out what I was really "suffering" of.
I had no pain, no symptom. I even had no clue, until 17th of November when I've been told there was something wrong.

I lived few days with the bitter painful awful dark feeling that I have the worst disease on the earth. I know my suffering was just a tiny fraction of what it could have been, as mine was just the fruit of my own imagination and not the one which come from the certainty of really having the worst disease on the earth. And still it was really painful.

And then again, I lived few weeks dreaming I don't have to move a finger in order to make things right again.
I was looking for that good doctor which would have told me that surgery was not needed. But I didn't find him.

So, in the end, on 15th of February, together with Adrian, we headed toward Tg. Mures for a planned surgery. As two of the best doctors warned me, half of me was ready to say good bye to half of my potential future children, by laparoscopy! The other half of me was hoping for the best, hoping that doctors were wrong, but scared enough that I would fall in depression if things won't go as I was dreaming.

13: 45. Time for surgery came. And passed. I woke up realizing immediately that laparoscopy didn't work. And then, I don't know who, where and when informed me that things went better than anyone ever hoped: the not-so-little "something" wasn't related to gynecology at all and it went out without a problem.
So suddenly everything bad disappeared. All black thoughts, all hard months, all worries and nightmares vanished as they never existed and were replaced by gratefulness, thankfulness, light and love.

I know that God made this on purpose to me. This time He outsmarted us in a good way. He made us think of all things bad and in the end gave us all things good. I promise I won't ask Him "Why?" again, but I rather tell Him "Thank you!". Who wouldn't do the same?




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