New relatives

I have found at least three new relatives in a short time. The family reunion is coming closer and I have wrote about it in my genealogy blog.

And now I have few more relatives, relatives who were unknown to me before.

Our family tree is growing bigger and bigger....

The family reunion

Three years has past and it is time to meet the whole "clan" again. My mothers side of the family has a meeting every three years. This year the meeting is in the end of august.

I am waiting the meeting because I like to get acquainted with new people especially new relatives. I hope as many as possible will come to the meeting.

The old community hall of Leppäkorpi

The meeting takes place in Nummi-Pusula municipal, in the village of Leppäkorpi. There is an old community hall. Our ancesters have been bilding that hall, and that is why we are now meeting there.

Now I must write a column for the magazine of the family so I can send the paper to the print and we can send it to our familymembers.

So good night, sleep tight....

Summer is here

I'm not very summer-like person, but must say that it has been beautiful weather in the last few days.

There is a picture of a little violet. It was blossoming in the old graveyard in Nummi. It shows how magnificent power life is. It comes through the grey stone in the place where the death lives.

Though I have always been fond of cemeteries, especially old ones. And the old cemetery of Nummi is one of my favourite places. It is so beautiful and quiet. And the old tombstones, the oldest are from the end of 19th century, old grey stones, rouhg like life itself.

When I was a litlle girl, I used to wisit there with my parents, my grandparents are buried there. When mother and father was taking care of the flowers and everything I used to walk between those old stones, touching them, trying to read the old names and dates. And I saw the people in my mind and I tryid to imagine the life they have had. I have always had a good imagination. So they were very living to me.

By the way, my weight has not gone down as fast as I hoped. And now I have decided to take in use hard way. I have made a soup, colesoup, and I'm going to eat it the whole week. Lets see what happens.

Christmas Eve

Today is Christmas Day and I'm sitting here at home, listening radio, enjoying the peaceful feeling. All three cats are sleeping in my bed and dreaming cats dreams. What kind of dreams they are I don't know, but I think they are catlike dreams because all three are obviously enjoying themselves.

Yesterday was Chirstmas Eve and I was visiting my son and his fiancée. And my doughter was there too with her fiancé. We did eat christmas meal and we gave christmas presents to each other and spent time together.

There were also a cat, Ming, who really was a cute princess as you can see in the picture. Yes she really is in the picture, under the blanket. You can see her nose.

So I did have a good Christmas Eve togethere with my love ones.

Today I visit my litle sisters family. We ate good food, had a cup of coffee and enjoyed the time together. Then we took a car and drowe to the old cemetery of Nummi. Our mother and father are buried there and we took candles to their grave. My grandparents are there too. The cemetery is so beautiful in christmas time, candlelights on white snow, stars in the sky....

The other picture is the old cemetery in Nummi. There is a beautiful old church, around it is the beautiful cemetery with the candlelights and stars...