Saturday morning I made few cake toppers to add to the flower pots I use for decoration.
Also, I printed out few coloring pages, Max & Ruby stickers on plain paper to use for party hats that also I finished Saturday morning. Everyone can color a page or make a party hat or mask of Max or Ruby. For ladies in the picture below are all sisters. Actually, they have one more sister and 4 brothers!
I asked a friend to make Max & Ruby and Helmī was so happy to see Max coming through the door. Everyone else wasn’t that important anymore. Thank you, Lauma for making Max & Ruby and for painting girl’s faces!
And of course, there were food and cakes…. and games.
And most valuable for me – pictures where we all are together!
And in the picture below post-soviet-union women (my mom with the black & white dress and Ilga, Janis godmother) are taking shots of strong alcohol. Alchocol was forbidden in our house & kids parties. Don’t know how it showed up this time, but I didn’t mind. This is how Latvians celebrated in soviet union time and the old habits die hard ;).
The difference from other countries – we are celebrating all together, doesn’t matter if it’s kid’s party or grownups! There is no such thing as celebrating a birthday without mom or grandmother. All invited!
At the end, there were 26 happy faces & 4 cakes! Thank you all for coming!!!
Ilze
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Wonderful post, wonderful pictures, clearly a wonderful party. Some interesting insights into Latvian life too. Super idea that children’s parties become family parties. I especially like the picture of you with Janis and the girls. Really well done and no doubt worth all the hard work.
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Thank you! Now I try my best to share all the recipes! 🙂 I need them to be in blog for me, in case I want to make them again. My honey cake recipe is the best! Requires lots of honey :)!
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Can’t wait. We brought 5 litres of acacia honey back from Romania; is that “plenty” enough for your cake? 😋In fact it’s for a ‘complimentary medicine’ Petronela insists I take every morning – half a grated lemon with a teaspoon of honey. It’s delicious so I don’t need much persuading.
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Add garlic and try that 🙂 It’s not delicious anymore but it’s medicine we need here in flu season. You will need ~600 grams for big honey cake. Have you ever tried a honey cake?
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We eat a lot of garlic, something else we brought back from Romania as it has a stronger taste than that we can buy here. Now I get an innoculation again ‘flu because of my other health problems but before that it never caused me a problem.
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Our Latvian garlic is stronger than the on in stores. It comes from chia and it’s not the half as good as local! I guess the same is all around the Europe!
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Oh, it looks like she had a great time!!! I’ve always invited my parents to my sons birthday parties, I think they should be there.
Did the kids like pin the tail on max? 😂
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Thank you! Thay really enjoyed it! They asked more. And the Max is still on the fridge!
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I’m so glad your party turned out so well!
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Thank you! I’m happy I’m not dead at the end. Sometimes when I forget to think about myself I end up with a big headache!
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Oh ILZE!!!! What an AMAZING Party! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the family photos! You are such a beautiful family!!!! And you are such a great momma!!! ❤
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… (blushed)! Thank you! I love your “extended family” Christmas photos! The whole thing! I need to start something like that…. I feel the need!
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Love and be Loved! ❤
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Yup! Love and be loved!
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PS. No, I never tried a honey cake so am waiting for your recipe. I’d have to scale it down though – maybe 300g honey!
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Yup… In one 24 cm round cake you will need 320 grams honey.
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