I love Romanian food!

Before I tell you all about the Romanian food that Glenn and I enjoyed, let me show you this photo of Kaylee, a friend of ours. Kaylee's family was in Budapest this past week and while here, Kaylee was able to get her ears pierced. She is so proud of them and they look great on her.


Sparkling earrings-like diamonds!


Freda dishes up the Sorba de Pedisoare

Freda and her husband Floyd invited the Doyles, Glenn and me up to the Eden House for a wonderful, homecooked, authentic Romanian meal. Always up for new experiences (and a meal I don't have to cook!), we enthusiastically accepted.


Glenn carefully watches as Freda dishes it up

After the first course of soup, Sorba de Pedisoare, she served us Mamalega (or Polenta-made from corn meal and about the consistency of grits) and Sarmale (sour cabbage with minced meat and vegetables). Everything was delicious! We were so full!


Putting whipped topping on the Clatita

For dessert, she fixed us Clatita's, or as we would call them in Hungary "Palacsinta's", or, as they are more commonly known in the United States, "crepes". She filled some with apricot preserves and some with stewed apples with cinnamon sugar, then lightly sprinkled powder sugar on them, and topped it all off with whipped cream. Talk about delicious!


Showing us her paintings

Floyd and Freda will be returning to the States soon because their term is ending, and we will miss them a lot! We've enjoyed getting to know them during their stays at the Eden House these past two years. In case the name rings a bell, Freda is the one who gave me the gorgeous handpainted tea box she did herself! She is sooooo talented, and our Lottie Moom Christmas Offering auction will miss her contributions! Please pray for them as they move back to the States and readjust to life in America after all these years here in Europe. (Re-adjusting is harder than you think.)



Glenn cuts the wood-

This weekend we are making some more bookshelves to go in the office. Yes, we can buy bookshelves here, but we can't find any the size we need and in the color we want so we are making them ourselves. We are so industrious this weekend!

And I stain it!

Somehow, in years past, whenever I worked on projects with Glenn in Marietta and with Chris and Kate at their house in Tennessee, I always ended up with the paintbrush!!

Bulbs are bursting out of the ground

We had planned to work in the yard this weekend. We haven't done a thing in the yard since last fall and the snow is gone (for good-we think!) so it is time to turn our attention to pruning and planting. The ground is soft because of all the rain we got this week and the sun is finally out, but it is toooooo windy to work outside so we worked on the bookshelves in the basement instead.

Flowers, for me?

Our daughter-in-law, Kate, leaves for Ethiopia and Kenya tomorrow with World Orphans and will be gone for almost 2 weeks. Please join with us in praying for a safe trip, God's protection over the health of her body, and that He will be glorified by all she and her teammates will do in His name in ministering to the orphans on this trip. We'll be praying for you, Kate!