[DelMarie]

Perhaps you could try a subscription to "Russian Life" magazine and/or check out their website. They have a great russian cookbook that you can order online (can't remember the name).

Our daughter is 4.5 years old and will be with us three years in June. I keep a Russian Life calender on the wall in the kitchen and we look at and talk about the photos of Russian Landscape and Russian Holidays'.

We often make Russian recipes' like Borsch and Syrniki (fried cheese cakes) or Russian pancakes-like a crepe. We have a collection of the matroshyka dolls but I really don't let her play with them because they are a little expensive and sentimental to me. I'd like to get her her own set to play with.

We do celebrate her homecoming but can't necessarily say it is steeped in Russian traditions. I too am like some other posters a Russian "souvenir collector" We have a collection of Russian currency that my husband set into a collage and it is beautiful. Also we have a picture collage of our first trip to russia and we talk about that whenever my daughter asks about it.

I personally as a hobby like to read the Russian Life magazine and keep up with current events. I also enjoy reading about Russian history of any type but probably because I am a bookworm!

My dream is to take my daughter to the 2012 summer olympics because she was adopted from Krasnodar which is somewhat close to Sochi-the olympic city. I'd like her and I to take Russian lessions before we plan this event so we can speak some Russian-The fare amount of RUssian I learned is very rusty now!