Another Easter has passed. This year, for a change, we went to the country house of my in-laws. Every year we eat the Easter lunch with them, so the only change was the change of house. I have other plans for next year though ;-)
Anyway, it was nice. We were lucky with the weather, quite sunny and pleasantly warm on Sunday, little bit misty yesterday. Sunday morning me and my daughter went out in the garden (I call it for simplicity as garden; it is a big piece of land with olive trees and in a corner my father-in-law grows also potatoes and some other vegetables). We played football first, then we went all around the land collecting flowers. There were many different flowers mostly in different shades of violet. When we came back to the house our shoes and trousers were all wet because of the morning dew on the grass.
Me and the kids spent two lazy days, lying on the sofas watching TV, playing cards, going for a walk around the house, sleeping, reading, eating, whereas Gabriele and his father had to work in the garden cutting wood, removing the cut branches of the olive trees, preparing the grill.
In Italy when people get together for any reason, Easter - Xmas - new years' eve - birthdays - celebrations of any kind, they EAT. They like having their visitors around dining table instead of serving them only a cup of coffee and some sweets in the living room... So we also ate this weekend, lamp - the classical Easter meat-, but also chicken and pork. I had made a pineapple cake as the dessert of our Easter lunch, they loved it. I had also prepared a sweet Easter bread (paskalya çöreği in Turkish). Though I made it for the first time in my life it turned out quite delicious and we ate it not only at breakfast time with our coffee but also dipped it in our Vin Santo after dinner.
Today I am at home with the two kids. Iris' school doesn't open before Thursday. I am planning to go downtown and visit a Spanish friend of mine in the afternoon. She just had her second daughter a couple of weeks ago. Maybe we take all our four kids and go out to a park, we will see.
I should do something about finding a job soon. I am becoming (or am I already???) a housewife and I don't like this (no offense to real housewives, the ones who have chosen to be only housewives, but I wasn't planning to become one, so it is unacceptable for me)!!!
Ben de is istiyorum Yasemin, daha fazla ev kadini ben de olamayacagim!!Nasil omur boyu ev kadini olunur cok zor! Cok oldu 4 sene ama az kaldi.. Yakinda cok yakinda, offf poff seni cok cok iyi anliyorum!!!
ReplyDeleteMerhaba Yasemin, ben de tam 4 yil ara verdim calisma hayatina, ama cok isteyince is geliyor zaten, ustelikte dilini o 4 yilda ögrendigim bir ulkede oldu bu!
ReplyDeleteAzmin elinden hicbirsey kurtulmaz demisti bir ögretmenim. Bu Avrupa ulkelerinde emeklilik te cok uzakta, o yuzden zaman geciyor gibi gelmesin, daha sonra 65 yasina kadar calismaktan bikacaksin.
Fulyacim, evet, ev kadinligini zaten calissak da yapiyor olucaz, bundan kacis yok, ama ben kendime ait bir isim olsun ve evde yapilmasi gereken temizlik vs tarzi isleri de baska birine devredeyim istiyorum. Bir kadinim olsun, haftada iki yerine her gun gelsin, utuyu falan bana birakmasin.... Tum maasimi da alsa raziyim. Sadece 'kendim' icin birseyler yapmak istiyorum, her gun evden cikayim, kendime bakayim, guzel ve temiz giyinmek icin bir sebebim olsun... Yoksa kariyermis, mudurlukmus tarzi hirslarim yok. Insallah biz de bulucaz boyle bir is yakinda...
ReplyDeleteHabibecim, sen de haklisin. Ben aslinda tamamen issiz degilim. Benim 'hizmetlerime' bagimli bir profesorum var en azindan universitede ama bu isi cok cok sevmeme ragmen parasi sifir gibi birsey ve de cok seyrek bir is, ayda bir bile degil kimi zaman, evden takip edebildigim birsey. Cocuklar kucuk olunca evden calismak hos gibi gozukse de aslinda oldukca zor. Ben de insallah soyle 20-25 sene calisayim, ne tip is olursa olsun ama bana bir emeklilik versin istiyorum. Illa da meslegimle alakali olmasi da gerekmez. Bakalim. Umarim yakinda guzel birseyler cikacaktir :-)
Ah ahh o hergun gelen yardimcilari olanlara o kadar ozeniyorum ki.
ReplyDeleteBen her ne kadar yemek yapmayi cok sevsem de, buna surekli vakit ayiramiyorum, ve hergun hergun bir yerden sonra bayiyor bu is beni. Sabah evden cikarken 'aksama sunlari sunlari hazirla' diyebilecegim, aniden bir misafir gelecegi zaman ofisten arayip 'bir kek bir pogaza yapar misin' diyebilecegim, bize hergun dunyanin degisik tariflerini sunabilen, diet yapmama yardimci olup bana hergun diet programindaki yemekleri hazirlayabilen biri olsa, sadece canim istedikce ve vaktim oldukca mutfaga girsem..
Is konusunda, Yasemin'cim seni cok iyi anliyorum. Sen kendini tatmin edecek birsey pesindesin. Isin zorlugu da burada zaten. Benim universiteden sonra sirketlerde calisip bolca paralar kazanan 'mudur' olan arkadaslarimin hic biri islerinden tatmin degiller. Ya da cok calisiyorlar, kazandiklari parayi harcamaya vakitleri olmuyor. Amerikadakilerin yilda 1 hafta 10 gun tatili var, ne yapacaklarini sasiriyorlar. Bir de ha deyip donemiyorlar Turkiye'ye, tam kisir dongu..Insallah tatmin olacagin, calismayi hobi gibi yapacagin, guzel bir sey cikar karsina. Sendeki yetenekler ve bilgi birikimi ile cok zor olacagini sanmiyorum canim. Mucks..
you all the time refer to 'me and the children', 'I and my daughter' etc.
ReplyDeleteits always the others first and than..in the end..you...)))
especially regarding your own children...