Mother's Day...

So how are you all doing, without getting your fix on Sunday? We had a lovely day. We went to church in the morning and the service of the Kyiv International Bible Church joined the main church’s service (I don’t actually know what that church’s name is – but we were in the main sanctuary instead of in the upstairs chapel where we normally have been). The service was nice – if felt a bit more formal (we were definitely the most casually dressed there – normally I don’t feel as though I’m too casual at KIBC but the Ukrainians dress up a bit more for church). The music alternated between Russian and English and the worship team did a great job. They had the English words up under the Russian which was nice. The sermon was in English (done by the pastor of KIBC) and translated into Russian (or was it Ukrainian – not really understanding much of either I can’t actually tell which was spoken). Then they had baptisms – about 20 or so people. It was neat to witness that many baptisms and to see the joy and excitement and to hear ‘SLAVA BOGU!’ (PRAISE GOD!). People are not so different despite culture and location. We enjoyed the service and were entertained by the pastor’s Texan accent come through as he praised God in Russian!
As we left the church, the weather had become somewhat cooler and so instead of heading to the beach, island and hydropark – as had been our plan - we elected to head to our grocery store via the metro then walked home for a nap. While we were shopping we decided Darren would cook (somehow it’s exciting to stay in and cook after eating out so much!) so we picked up a couple of varieties of ‘vereniky’ (perogies), some vino, carrot salad and a few other necessities (like TP, Napoleon for dessert and chocolate). Then Darren had a nap while I went to Mario’s for a coffee and a little emailing. We then did some yoga and Darren made supper. It was great. He boiled the perogies and fried the salami then fried the perogies in salami drippings – now that’s the way to have perogies! We were a little surprised when the cheese vereniky we had picked out turned out to be sweet cottage cheese – not quite what we were expecting (they didn’t go quite as well with the fried salami and onions as the potato ones did)! For dessert we each had a healthy serving of Napoleon (different from last time but still good) with a little chocolate on the side. :) We had a wonderful meal and then went for a walk. It was a gorgeous evening.