a single candle burning

wow, last night was so much fun!! and no worries, I'm so over my small house blues!! we had such a great time last night!! it truly is amazing how easily we adapt to God's plan!! anyway, your not here to hear about me blabbering on about nothing!!! here is the scoop..

so we did it!! we had such an amazing supper, chicken, steamed veg, potatoes, rice, gravy and yes, for pudding, we had some things fried in oil.. you guessed it, we had donuts!!! i am going to like Hannukah!! after supper we lit the Shamash (the serving candle) and then used it to light the first Hannukah candle!! then i said the 3 blessings, which by the way are beautiful and then i even said the one in Hebrew!!! how cool am i?? then we told the children about the festival, why, who, when and then came the Dreidle!! actually in our case it was just a dice, 'cause the dreidle matyn and i made didn't work!! my bad! but we had so much fun with the dice, that i might just continue to use it!! oh, did i skip a part, did i mention the gifts... no, i didn't!! all the children (even those visiting) got a gift!! every one took part in the game and it was so much fun!! we had Hannukah Gelt and sweeties and laughing, singing, story telling, losing Gelt, getting Gelt.. just fun, fun, fun!! my kids are excited and i have to say, i enjoyed it so much!! so tonight we'll see the lighting of the second candle!! can't wait! God is so full of surprises!

so, you remember my little Risk dilemma?? well, here it is.. i did end up playing with!! couldn't get out of it, no matter how hard i tried, but then i WON!!! yes, readers, the day has arrived, maryna, the ultimate not-winning-risk-not-even-playing-risk, maryna, has won! i was so excited, that i sommer called everyone that had ever before been forced to play with me and told all of them that i won!! the only drawback is that in this triumph i needed to take out 2 of my friends in order to win.. really not a nice game! i truly would rather laugh and loose than plunder and win!!

anyway, no camera yet, will carry on looking!!