How lovely to receive that big box with gifts and goodies from your mother ! Enjoy the bounty and celebrate the coming festivities of the month of December ! Much love from California. 💕🌷
1) Wow! Aren't you lucky with a mum like that! - I hope that you can find a way to give her nice things, too! 2) That very sweet stuff (zahir?) resembles the stuff (zefir?) that I know from the Polish supermarket in Amsterdam-Noord. 3) There may well be e-books available in Russian. So, if you should happen to have a tablet computer around...
Thank you for your comment Chris! Yes, we can send package back to Russia too :) We've been reading our Kindles many years but we are happy to have paper books for kids :)
Zefir... So it’s not only belarussian traditional sweets… My belarussian girlfriend claims it is their sweets!!! Who is right? But despite the origin, I really like it.
It must be confusing for you guys to be in a country in which we do not speak about Christmas until the 6th of December. Especially when you got Christmas gifts from abroad... This must be very confusing for your kids as well since Sinterklaas (this is one word!) is the main (and often the only) celebration for kids in The Netherlands and Christmas is the small after party for grown ups in this part of Europe. When your kids talk to other kids at school or in the street... nobody of their friends will understand your kids having Christmas gifts before Sinterklaas has had his day the 5th of December....This will lead to confusion all over... You're not making this any easier for your kids to cope with since they'll be the only one in this situation...To avoid that: So maybe it is better to unpack these gifts during Christmas time: so from the 6th of December until the second Christmas day of the 26th of December... Patience (not unpacking the gift bag from Russia until Christmas time) basically is the magic word here....
This was a very fun video! Very nice seeing you and your daughter go through the nice items on the big package! Thank you!!
Thank you, Alan! Happy that this video made you smile!
This is exactly what my mother would do, so sweet.
Thank you for your comment, Ross!
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How lovely to receive that big box with gifts and goodies from your mother ! Enjoy the bounty and celebrate the coming festivities of the month of December ! Much love from California. 💕🌷
Much love back to you, dear Yvonne!
I adore you!!!
We're grateful for your support 🙏
enjoy the gifts
Thank you a lot!
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Thank you!
Nice vlog Marina, always good to receive presents, I think your daughter and husband were also pleased!🙏🙏
Thank you for your comment, Jack!
1) Wow! Aren't you lucky with a mum like that! - I hope that you can find a way to give her nice things, too!
2) That very sweet stuff (zahir?) resembles the stuff (zefir?) that I know from the Polish supermarket in Amsterdam-Noord.
3) There may well be e-books available in Russian. So, if you should happen to have a tablet computer around...
Thank you for your comment Chris! Yes, we can send package back to Russia too :) We've been reading our Kindles many years but we are happy to have paper books for kids :)
Zefir... So it’s not only belarussian traditional sweets…
My belarussian girlfriend claims it is their sweets!!!
Who is right?
But despite the origin, I really like it.
We're not sure about the origins of zefir, but surely Belarus has it as well as Russia :) the white covered in chocolate is the best!
Marina, is it not possible for your parents (or Dimas’s) to travel to the Netherlands for a holiday with you?
At this moment it is not possible, unfortunately 😔
It must be confusing for you guys to be in a country in which we do not speak about Christmas until the 6th of December. Especially when you got Christmas gifts from abroad... This must be very confusing for your kids as well since Sinterklaas (this is one word!) is the main (and often the only) celebration for kids in The Netherlands and Christmas is the small after party for grown ups in this part of Europe. When your kids talk to other kids at school or in the street... nobody of their friends will understand your kids having Christmas gifts before Sinterklaas has had his day the 5th of December....This will lead to confusion all over... You're not making this any easier for your kids to cope with since they'll be the only one in this situation...To avoid that: So maybe it is better to unpack these gifts during Christmas time: so from the 6th of December until the second Christmas day of the 26th of December... Patience (not unpacking the gift bag from Russia until Christmas time) basically is the magic word here....
Thank you for your tips and advice!