Spring is here with all its happiness: plenty of blossoming flowers (and allergy-inducing) pollen, new chicks, Spring Break (coming, coming, gone), midterms...

Martisor (the little March , 1st day of March, but also the name of a little charm  with a red and white tread attached, worn between March 1st-9th for good luck )
• more about the custom  as
• a Valentine's day substitute inRomanian and Bulgarian tradition  and
• some more from the  Cat-teacorner

For Martyrs' Day,  March 9 don't forget to prepare  a (yummy)
• Mucenici soup or
• baked Mucenici.

Paste (Easter):
• traditional  customs ( and more about painted eggs)
• traditional recipes : cozonac(Easter bread), drob (lamb haggis ) , stufat de miel (lamb onion stew)

Tax-Time

some collective words of wisdom on the subject--forms and all the usual fun