Our children were happy when we told them about a boy their age and his parents who would visit us on Saturday and have lunch with us. I will call him Stephan and his mother, Victoria. (You already met his father, Vladimir in my previous diary).

We worked this morning but as soon as we finished, we rushed home to be ready for our guests. Our moms were true angels and they prepared the whole lunch for us. Vladimir and his wife didn’t want us to come and take them to our place saying they had GPS and would find us. Anyhow, when they arrived, they brought candies for our children, flowers for Ivy and me, and wine for my Prince. The children got along very fast and easily although they didn’t speak the same language, which I cannot say for Vladimir and Victoria. They were very reserved during lunch and answered our questions very tightly. Something bugged them and we didn’t know what for we could see they weren’t natural. As soon as the children went to play in their room again after dessert (mom Zdenka was watching them), we sat in the living room to have coffee. Then Victoria addressed to three of us openly but with an unfriendly tone using a phone translator:

- I want you to know that we know about your love triangle. Mister maintainer said to my husband about you. Regardless of those who support you, we do not support and approve of your lifestyle. Talking about your lifestyle, (looking at me), I don’t want to live in fear you will seduce my husband some day … (My Prince wanted to interfere, but my mom gently grabbed his hand as a sign not to do it). The reason we accepted your invitation for lunch is that you were kind to my husband and hired him, but we want you to know that besides business matters, we do not want to befriend you and our son befriending your children. So, thank you for your invitation and lunch but we shall go now.

Well, we were shocked. We didn’t expect her to accept us so easily but we didn’t expect such hostility either. I was afraid of my Ivy’s reaction but to my surprise, she kept her temper under control. She stood up, entered the children’s room, and said to Mikey and Precious that our guests were leaving and she took them to our beach. As soon as our guests left, our parents hugged my Prince and me and said they were sorry about the incident. Then we walked to the beach and joined my Ivy and the children. My Ivy explained to them that they might not see Stephen ever again because his parents do not like us. (She told them the real reason – our love triangle). Mikey melted our hears by saying:

> You know, I feel sorry for them for they do not know how blessed Precious and I are by having two mamas and one tata. It’s their loss. (This is something he surely picked from our moms and my Fran who teach them that our love triangle is a completely normal thing).

Anyway, we didn’t let this unpleasant event steal our joy. My Prince clapped his hands and said:

- Who wants to join me with the strawberry and chocolate pancakes? My treat.

We all raised our hands and shouted: I do!

We quickly changed our clothes and he drove us to the meadery restaurant. Our parents followed us in dad Boss’s car. Of course, they ate and bought domestic cheese, smoked ham, alcohol mead, orange wine, and things they always eat and buy when going there. We had a great time. Malicija called Silvano and when she heard that he was with us and where we were, she said to him:

- You sneaky rat! There’s no way you’ll have fun without me. I want you to come and pick me up right now or else!

We blasted in laughter.

And that was some Saturday. Would we be hard on Vladimir now? Nooo, why would we be? You can’t make someone like you if he doesn’t want to. We’ll keep a strictly professional relationship as his wife requested.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a “family-free” Sunday, which means the five of us should be alone but since there will be an important soccer match between our city soccer club and Varaždin, the whole family will come to watch it. It is an important match for our city club because they have to win to keep the first place on the score table. Us? We’ll be in our shack on the beach during that time and most probably have sex with Irena.