We lost a legend in our Croatian Community this week.  Pero Pastuovic picked up our family in 1973 when we came to Oakville by train from Winnipeg.  From what I understand we were just one of the many, Pero was the Oakville welcome wagon.  Whether you needed a ride or help finding a job or filling out paperwork, he was your man.  Just ask Visnja who spent many hours filling out paperwork for the new refugees. 

My deepest sympathies to Marija, Sonja, Visnja, Peter, Mirko and Gregory.  Along with your fond memories of your father we all have our own.  God rest his soul…………

I guess it is never too late to say Congrats.  Congrats to Jozo and Senka on the birth of their son Ilija Mate.  He really is cute as a button.  Mom and baby are doing well.  Senka is one of the reasons I need to blog, she has the next year off and needs something to do while her King is sleeping.

Subject: Fw: Where there’s a will…There’s a Relative

  Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the Family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a
wife with whom to share his fortune.

One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.
 ’I may look like just an ordinary man,’ he said to her, ‘but in
  just a few years, my father will die, and I’ll inherit 20
million dollars.’
 
Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three days
  later, she became his stepmother.
 
Women are so much better at estate planning

Yesterday I was sitting outside and up pulled Kuma and Pavo and to my delight a Baskin Robbins bag, they give you a big bag when you buy (2) TWO pints of Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream…..  I need to be careful, on Tuesday I went to sleep looking like the girl that can stand to loose 10 pounds and woke up Wednesday with a cantaloupe in my belly, it literally happened over night.

Right now I am blogging and eating Ice Cream at the same time, what a champ….  Thanks Kuma,  I am set till the end of the week.

I would like to send a huge Shout Out to Marina who celebrated her Birthday on Sunday by going Skydiving for the second time  in a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teta Marica is the big winner, last night she delivered my first liter of PB & Chocolate Baskin Robbins Ice Cream.  I came home from the doctors to find Kuma and Pavo on my doorstep, she was pondering driving back to where she had googled Baskin Robbins to get the Ice Cream but realized that she would be stuck in unnecessary traffic, maybe unnecessary for her but I would have waited.  Nevertheless I got my Ice Cream.

Just a mental note to all, last night I woke up at 1am for the usual pregnancy bladder break and remembered the Ice Cream tucked away in the kitchen freezer, I couldn’t resist.  Picture this, 1 am, in my pj’s less ‘gace’of course leaning over the counter and eating my Ice Cream until I was too cold to eat anymore, I got through about 1/4 of the liter and don’t feel guilty.  After all it is not me who wanted the Ice Cream it was the baby.

Yesterday I had a doctors appointment and found out that I have only gained 6 pounds, not bad for 16 weeks.  Maybe I should cut back on the nightly freezer Ice Cream raids or that may change.

Yesterday Teta Marica had a Barbecue in Steve’s honor because he is going home today.  The food was fabulous, I even had my potato and bacon salad.  The company was the best part, it is always great to have a good dose of Susie and top it off with Annie’s humor.   Donnie was late but better late then never. 

We were being our usual selves, a little gossip, a little burning and lots of making fun of each other.  Fab at 40 started telling a story about something that happened the night before and hence the next and new blog entry we will start having random polls.  I need you to be honest when answering the poll questions……

Teta Marica, Thanks for the great food and for being the hostess with the mostess.

You know who your Besty is when she can call you and say “you sound normal”, that is what Lydia said to me on the phone today.  I guess I may have been a little miserable lately, but now that I am 14 weeks pregnant I no longer have morning sickness that lasts all day.  I should have used that excuse for why I have not blogged.  I had two great pregnancies with Niko and Ante, never felt sick or anything.  Almost from the first day of this pregnancy I have felt nauseous, Goran wanted to know where the other Teta Aud was and Marica say I am mean.  Well they should try giving up smoking and drinking at the same time and feel like barfing twenty-four seven.

Grammar Nazi, I look forward to your potato and Bacon Salad

Happy Birthday to my Besty and Seka Lydia…….  Hope you have a fantastic day!!!!!!!

We had the greatest day yesterday, it was the longest Soccer Game ever.  The guests started arriving at 10:30 am and the last ones left at 9:00 pm.  Seven kids and 2 adults fit very comfortably in the new pool.  No comments please about the way Croatia played, the important thing is that we got ‘3′ points.  There was funny stuff going on all day but three comments stand out in my head and the only response was to “BLAME IT ON THE COOLERS”

We were watching the game and ‘Fab at Forty’ gets up and says when did Niko Kovac get a yellow card.  As she walked away we realized that she saw the captains band on his arm and waited till she sat back down to roast her.

A couple of hours later and a few more coolers, Susie is walking outside and comments to ‘Fab at Forty’ that she didn’t know that sunflowers could grow in the ground, Fab says ‘of course they can’ and Susie says I thought they could only grow in pots.  Fab at Forty looks at her and says ‘what else is in pots but soil’.  Susie asks her not to tell us but ‘Fab’ gave her up.

A couple of coolers later on separate occasions ‘Besty” and ‘Ive’ both ask me how whether “paprike” grow out wide and how high and do you have to tie them up with sticks like tomatoes.  Niko ‘D’ says “jadna ta bastja” I want to see it when they are done since they don’t even know how peppers grow.

Thanks to all, had a great day and see you Thursday for another marathon…….