a week of celebrations

What can I say – sometimes life is a bit uneventful and sometimes you are just double booked for fun things to do. Counting back to last weekend there was the lovely Easter brunch and Easter egg hunts, there is two weekends in a row Finnish school for kids, miss Anaïs just had her first Chinese speech contest in the class (after a just year of studying or so – you go girl!) and the big contest with nearly 900 kids is on Saturday.

Add there the royal wedding – yes I am planning to take a peek in the middle of the night (not so much different from other nights this week as little twins have been sick and not sleeping), a black tie even (haven’t been to one for so many years so got to do some nice shopping) and a Mayday party on Sunday.

Oh yes, and the twins celebrated a year with their nanny and I am attending the CERT training (Community Emergency Response Team) several nights – I felt it would be useful to be able to act and help others if the big earthquake or some other disaster struck here…

So lot of things to do and shopping to prepare!

Clotted cream

Finally I managed to find some clotted cream for the cream tea to be enjoyed with the Royal wedding. But it is like the elixir of life here – this tiny container cost a fortune and will be probably good just for two scones or so! And I have never seen before clotted cream that did not require refrigeration, so I am slightly suspicious but hoping for the best…

Max Mara

And here’s my lovely dress for the black tie event from the Max Mara spring collection (obviously worn here by a model. I love the dress and wish I would look as good in it too!). Still hunting for the shoes. Max had lovely peep toes that I might get still tomorrow…

 

trophies

Trophies for the little Chinese speech contestants…

marshmallow treats

Miss Anaïs managed to find time to bake goodies for the party following the speech contest too

celebration

Twins and their lovely nanny celebrated too. I am still wondering what could I get her as she is one lovely lady!!

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