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Confession Time: What We Learned from Our Family Bankruptcy- Henri's Cup of Tea

( Note: If this is your first time on the blog, or have missed my first post about the topic on  family bankruptcy , you may want to catch the story here for a little perspective .) Who said that it's easy to share something about a story of family bankruptcy? Especially that of your own family? On the blogosphere? I mean, it's a lot easier to share only the note-worthy ones, the crisp and the glossy, and the filtered and the praise-worthy ones. But the messy and the stinky ones? The bloody ones? The ones that place you on a state of vulnerability? And haven't we been shoved enough social media drama on a daily basis? Keeping it REAL on our publicized world, admit it, is quite difficult. Because who would want to look stupid on the outside, to be judged, to be virtually mocked?  No one. But. There's a big BUT (to borrow my daughter's use of the word BUT as a conjunction on her other blog posts), in the light of eternity, it is always worth the risk and worth...

What I've Seen at the Honey Festival at Kolomenskoye Park So Far by Bethany

Kolomenskoye Park is a breathtaking  390 hectare scenery overlooking the Moskva River that was  used to be a royal estate located a few kilometers southeast of the city center in Moscow. I was given the privilege the other day of visiting this beautiful place and even tasted some honey at the Honey Festival which happens once every September at the beginning of autumn. Mrs. Svetlana, my Russian Language teacher brought all of the beginners on a field trip including Noah and myself to practice what we have learned in our class. Basic sentences like: Russian- " Я хочу купить этот мёд  в эту банку."  English- "I would like to buy this honey in this jar." Russian- " Можно попробовать этот мёд?" English- "May I try this honey?"   We rehearsed these dialogues in class and I felt more confident as we headed to the Honey Festival. Hopefully I'll be able to share more of what I've learned in my Russian class soon, but for no...

What We've Seen at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics So Far...

We're  at the beginning of   the cold autumn   season and the  lush green  trees sprawling the parks and.  streets here have started wilting. I thought   the word 'wilting' best describes the look of greens here as we transition from the summer to the autumn season.  It was a lovely display of colors of pale green to deep orange to pale yellow and brown depicting an ombre.  The temperature  would range from 14º to 10º celcius all throughout the   week with occurrences of 10 minute-rain showers that would make the atmosphere even colder, and how about the blustery winds of Moscow? And  then there's  the whirlpool of dried  leaves  dancing  on  the  damp pavements. It had been fantastic so  brrrr  far.   Anyways... It was Moscow's 869th happy birthday celebration last weekend and the city bustled with colorful festivities and spectacular fireworks display for the ...