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Happy Birthday Atria

25/6/2018

Atrias Pandora Birthday gift

Dear Atria,

I hope your day is filled with wonderful things. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday.

This year I chose for you something to help you celebrate unforgettable moments, express your individuality and aspire to be better. I hope it will be the start of your own collection of charms celebrating many wonderful life events, experiences and people who love you. The first charm for your bracelet is a reminder that you are and you always will be my daughter, I am your dad and I love you.

I saw that you already collected your gift from the post office in Woking on the 14th of June. I sent it a bit earlier to ensure it reaches you in time for your celebrations. I hope you like it.
Happy Birthday Atria

Happy International Woman’s Day!

8/3/2018

Dear Atria,

this year on Women’s Day I wish you a lot of self-confidence, ability to embrace everything that makes you unique, believe in yourself, perseverance and self-discipline in purseing your dreams, and kindness towards yourself and others. I would wish for you grow up to be a strong, confident, warm and loving woman.

“To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”

Hillary Clinton

Happy photograph for Atria.

Christmas Morning

25/12/2017

Christmas morning with Fash.

Dear Atria, I had a bit of a rough start of the Christmas Day, but finally about 10am, I got out of the bed and opened my Christmas gifts. It’s not so much about the presents, but about knowing that people around me care enough to write a card, make an effort and choose something for me and share with me.

I hope you had a lovely morning today and you enjoyed unwrapping your gifts. I also hope you like what I’ve chosen for you. I thought everyone likes a cozy pyjamas :-)

Wishing you a very joyful festive season. I will be thinking of you during the Christmas dinner and I hope some day we can sit by the same table and share it together. Merry Christmas Atria!

Merry Christmas Atria

20/12/2017

Christmas Gift for Atria.

Dear Atria,

I am very happy to be given an opportunity to send you a Christmas gift this year. Please thank your mother for providing your new postal address.

I sent you a package yesterday and I noticed that the delivery was attempted this morning, but surely you must have been at school and no one was home to receive it. The collection note has been left by the postman, so you can get the package now from your local collection office. I hope you will enjoy it :-)

I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year 2018!

Christmas gift for Atria Shenassa.

Happy Halloween!

31/10/2017

Were-rabbit Halloween pumpkin.

Happy Halloween Atria! I am not sure if the girls of your age still go trick-or-treating, but you certainly may be going to a Halloween party. I would be interested to know what is your costume? I can't remember attending any of Halloween parties myself, but I suppose you owe to chose something scary, so I would probably chose to be a Dracula or a Wizzard.
Traditionally, like almost every year I carved a pumpkin which you can see in the photograph above. Can you guess what it is? Well... it's a Were-rabbit ;-)
Happy Halloween again, enjoy, whatever you're doing today.

Happy Easter Atria

18/4/2017

Happy Easter Atria :-) I hope you had a lovely Easter holidays and you are looking forward to the future with joy, hope and optimism. Whatever your future holds be ready to take advantage of all the great opportunities, overcome any obstacles and work towards making your dreams come true. Do your best and don't be scared of failure - it's an important part of every journey and a valuable learning curve.

This year I was alone at Easter, but I had people I love in my heart and although I wished they were here with me I didn't feel lonely knowing that they are thinking of me and they care about me. I hope you know that I do think of you a lot and I care for you.

The picture above was taken during my latest visit with Baba couple of weeks ago. With me in the picture you can see Leo's rabbit, he is now an important part of our family and he travels everywhere with Anna... well, he actually lives in her handbag. This rabbit spent two days with Leo in his cot and was there when Leo died. It's strange how an unsnimated object gains a great importance when is associated with someone we love...

Fash with Leo's rabbit.

Happy Birthday Atria

25/6/2016

Dear Atria,

Life it not measured by how many years we have celebrated our birthday, but by how many new experiences we had during that time and what we have learned from them.

I am sure you have had lots of unforgettable moments in your life. Today, after wishing you a very happy birthday celebrations with your family and friends, I also wish to treat you with a new experience.

Any adventure is often more enjoyable when we have a friend to share it with. I hence have bought an hour-long Segway experience for you and a friend or a family member you want to share it with. I hope you will enjoy it.

Happy Birthday dear Atria.

Your dad Farshid

Birthday present for Atria Shenassa.

International Women's Day

8/3/2016

Happy International Women's Day dear Atria! It's your day. Fill it with happiness and joy :-)
I wish you to be a woman of substance. Be a real woman that learns from her mistakes, gathers her strength from her struggle and overcomes the obstacles courageously. Be an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman that touches others with kindness and inner beauty.
Do you know how the International Women's Day has originated? It started as a Socialist political event in the Soviet countries and was originally called International Working Women's Day. Over the years the day lost its political flavour and became simply an occasion for people to express their love for women and to celebrate women’s achievements throughout history and across nations. in 1977 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 8th March as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.

Your Christmas Gift

10/1/2016

Dear Atria, the Christmas package I sent you in mid-December came back couple of days ago. To my surprise it apparently hasn't been collected. I thought that maybe you were away for Christmas holidays and therefore was not able to collect it? Anyway, I will keep it for you and I will send it to you again whenever you want. Please contact me via this website, email or phone whenever you want me to post it again.

Christmas present for Atria not collected

Your parcel waiting for collection

3/1/2016

Dear Atria, I assume you went away for Christmas holidays or were busy with your friends & family and therefore the Christmas gift I sent you this year has not been yet collected. I checked today and it is still waiting for you at the Woking sorting office. You can arrange delivery via website or using the telephone number provided. You can also go and collect it in person from the sorting office. Please see details below.
I hope you will be able to collect it soon and you will enjoy it.

Tracking details for Christmas gift for Atria

Happy New Year 2016

1/1/2016

A new year is all about starting afresh and realising your dreams. Have a Happy New Year Atria and happy beginnings to whatever you want to do or change this year.

“Whatever you do or dream you can do — begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it”.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Macmilllan Cancer Support Christmas Stars

20/12/2015

Every year I and Anna add one new ornament to our Christmas tree. We had a squirrel, fairy and some other fancy decorations, but this year's addition is very special.
This year's addition are two Macmillan Stars in memory of my Mum (MadarJan) and Anna's Dad (Tato), who both lost their battles with cancer.
We made a donation to Macmillan Cancer Support and as a thank you we received these stars.
Macmillan is a charity that supports people with cancer and their families. They aim to reach and improve the lives of everyone with cancer. They provide care, moral support, advice about work, help with money worries or just are there for anyone who wants to talk about cancer.
Our loved ones are no longer with us and unfortunately there is nothing we can do to bring them back. Our donation however could help others who are fighting against the same terrible disease that took away our beloved.

My Mum and Anna's Dad shall continue to live in our hearts through the memories they left behind. We miss them, especially at times like Christmas when the families gather together to celebrate.
Hopefully soon the scientists will find a cure for cancer and one day it will be treated as simply as a common cold today. Do you think it is far fetched? Maybe... but, well, years ago a very powerful Egyptian queen died from untreated dental abscess. Today abscess treatment is not only very simple but also widely affordable and accessible to everyone, even if they are not a King or a Queen. So let’s keep our hopes up.

Your Christmas present is on the way :-)

17/12/2015

Dear Atria,

Your Christmas present this year is a limited edition ice-watch. I got it for you with the hope that every time you look at it, it will remind you to value your time and to cherish your memories.

Time we value at present forms our future happy memories, whilst the time we took for granted and did not value contributes towards our future regrets.

Look forward to a better new year; believe in yourself and your abilities. Whatever you want to do, do it today; don’t wait till tomorrow. There is a saying that ‘There is always tomorrow’, but there are times when tomorrow may be too late…

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2016.

Your Dad,
Farshid

Christmas Card 2015 for Atria

This year's Christmas card for you.

Christmas present 2015 for Atria Shenassa

Present and card wrapped and ready to placed in an envelope.

Below there are pictures of your Christmas card and present which today at 12.51pm postman attempted to deliver unsuccessfully.
Go to Royal Mail website (Tracking number AF257623564GB) and rearrange a delivery or take the card they left at your address to the local sorting office and collect in person. I hope you get it before Christmas.
Wishing you and your family and friends a wonderful, magical Christmas filled with love, joy and happiness.
Love from dad :-)

Your Birthday

21/6/2015

Dear Atria,

Your Birthday is approaching soon, so I sent you a card and a birthday gift. I am now in Iran, but I chose what I want to get for you and Anna did the shopping and posting on my behalf. The parcel for you was posted 5 days ago so you can receive it well in time before your Birthday. I hope you will find time to collect it from the Post Office before then. In the meantime I am going to describe the gifts I chose for you.

This is the card with a big hug from me to you. I don't know if you can read the message from the picture, so here it is what it says:

Dear Atria,

Lots of hugs and my loving thoughts for you on your birthday.
I always wanted for your all the happiness, health and success there is in the world. Now you are well on your way to become an adult, certainly mature enough to listen to someone’s opinions and advice, and decide for yourself which part of what you hear is a sound and good advice that may change your life for better, or how someone else’s story of success may suggest to you a different approach towards life and its challenges or how it may shed a light on a different path in life, or all of the above and more, whatever the case may be.
This year I decided to get you couple of books about happiness and law of attraction. They both give a comprehensive advice on how to be happy, how to love life, laugh more, live longer and achieve everything we want in life. One of them is an audiobook as I thought you may like to listen to it on your blue iPod while you are walking.
Your grandfather (Pedar Jan) is with me and he wishes you a very happy and glorious birthday.

Happy birthday my Princess
Your Dad Farshid

Birthday hug

Atrias Birthday card

The Secret

From the message on the card you already know what are the other gifts. The fist one is 'The Secret', a book (or rather audiobook in this case - I thought you could listen to it on your iPod I got you last year) by Rhonda Byrne. I didn't read or listen to it myself but I checked out the reviews and I thought it is a type of lecture that teaches a positive attitude towards life and conveys good values. 'The Secret' contains wisdom from modern-day teachers - men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. Rhonda Byrne explains that by controlling your thoughts and ensuring that they are of a positive nature, anything, in any aspect of life, is achievable. More specifically, The Secret explains the law of attraction meaning that like things attract, so positive thoughts can create positive outcomes while negative thoughts would create that negative reality.
The book goes on to apply the concept of positivity to health, relationships, abundance, thankfulness, and ultimately life. Indeed the point is to be happy now, feel good now. Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter. That’s what it is. That's what I wish you in life. I hope you will enjoy listening to this book and maybe you could tell me about it more?

Happiness

The secod gift is a book by Lois Blyth called 'The Little Pocket Book of Happiness' which explains how to love life, laugh more and live longer. It's a nice little book packed with great advice, powerful quotations and cute illustrations. I wish you all the happiness in the world and I hope this book will help you to find it.
The review of the book says:
The Little Pocket Book of Happiness offers a more joyous approach to living and thinking; a shift in approach that may reframe your view of the world; simple things you can do to reconsider your life consciously so that you can decide whether now is the time when you can be happier. It includes strategies to warm the heart and open the mind to the extraordinary power of happiness. It shares the experiences of others and provides the closest we might have to a happiness 'formula'. The good news is, happiness is within everyone's grasp.
Below are some picture from the inside of the book so you can have a feel what it is about. I myself saw only the pictures but based on them I really like the book and I hope you will like it too and that it will help you to find more happiness, joy, laughter and love in your life.

When we are happy

Loving kindness

Celebrate life

The art of giving

Immune against negative thoughts

Be in touch

Choose to feel happy

And here are all the presents before wrapping and then wrapped. There are also two pairs of socks that Anna thought are very cute and girly, so I hope you will like them. Happy Birthday my Princess! I hope you will have a wonderful day on your Birthday celebrating with friends and family.

Atrias presents

Atrias presents wrapped

Happy Easter

4/4/2015

Dear Atria, wishing you a joyful Easter, fresh hopes coming with the Spring, good time with friends and family and everything what makes you really happy.

Below is a picture of Anna's Easter decorations in her house. This year I am spending Easter in Iran with my parents. Madar Jan is in a critical condition at the hospital. I sent you a letter about it, so you should find out more soon.

Have a good Easter.

Your dad Farshid.

Happy Easter

Happy Noruz Atria

20/3/2015

Noroz

Happy Valentine's Day Dear Daughter

13/2/2015

I think Valentine's Day is more than just a time for hearts and boxes of chocolate.
It's an opportunity to tell the special people in our lives how much they mean to us.
Happy Valentine's Day my Dear Daughter.

With love your Dad Farshid

Valentines card

Christmas Angel

4/1/2015

Dear Atria,

I hope you had a nice and enjoyable Christmas, are rested and all ready to start school again.

The little angel I have sent you together with your Christmas card is hand made by Celina Wandas of Pracownia Ceramiczna 'Angel' from Krakow. I got this angel direct from the artist and I myself wrote the message on the little heart.
I asked the artist to write her name on a piece of paper and sign it for you.

There are different legends about Christmas tree and the Christmas angel and no one knows for sure which one is closer to true fact.

One such legend has it that in winter of 1536 one night Martin Luther went for a walk in forest and was inspired by the wondrous sight of thousands of stars shining trough the branches of the fir trees.
Legend continues that he, that year, took a small fir tree to his house and decorated it with candles and shiny objects to recreate that beautiful heavenly view for his children.
Some believe this was the first Christmas tree decorated inside the house

A different legend has it that in December of year 1800 Queen Charlotte, the German wife of King George III set up the first known English Christmas tree at Queen"s Lodge in Windsor or Kew Palace.
She decorated her royal tree with shining glass ornaments, glowing wax candles, sweets, fruits, small jewellery, toys, presents and an angel.

Merry Xmas 2014 & a Happy New Year 2015
Your dad
Farshid Shenassa

Christmas Angel for Atria

Pracownia Ceramiczna Angel

Happy Birthday dear Atria!

25/6/2014

Dear Atria,
Happy Birthday!

When we are a boy or a girl, on our birthday we are simply one year older.
However, when we get to an age that we grow to a Lady or a Gentleman, on our birthday we also get one year wiser.
My dear daughter, today you got one year wiser.

Look back at your Life since your last birthday and recall all your memories. Let the good and pleasant memories inspire and motivate you in the year ahead, but don't let the less cheerful or less pleasant memories to discourage or dissuade you in life. Just remember them and learn from them, specially memories of any actions you regret.

Remember, Failures and Mistakes are Actions or Answers which you identified as undesirable or wrong, but yet failed to learn from them.

If you do learn from your mistakes, although still wrong or undesirable actionsy, they will become Experiences in life which eventually will be leading you to glory and success.

Wishing you a very happy birthday.

Your dad
Farshid Shenassa
25/06/2014

Atria Birthday

This year I chose a really beautiful handmade card for you and and iPod Shuffle, so you can listen to your favourite music. My solicitor will pass your present on to your mother in July.

Atria's Birthday card

My Birthday message on your card is exactly the same as the one in this post. Happy Birthday!

Happy International Children's Day

2/6/2014

Dear Atria,
Yesterday, 1st of June, was an International Children's Day. I hope you had a great and very happy day!
The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International Children's Day in 1925. After the conference, different governments around the world decided to declare a day as Children's Day to draw attention to children's issues - to protect children from long working hours and dangerous situation in the workplace as well as give every children chance to get education.

Children's Day

Children's hands

Happy Easter Dear Atria!

20/4/2014

Easter

This is our little Easter display for this year. Do you have one as well? Did you receive any chocolate eggs or maybe you are taking part in an Easter egg hunt?

I hope you enjoy whatever you do this Easter and have a lovely time with your family and friends filled with joy, laughter and lots of happy surprises. Have a wonderful Easter my dear Daughter.

With love, your Dad Farshid

Happy Norooz Dear Atria

21/3/2014

Dear Atria
Happy New Year, Norooz Mobarak!
This year the Iranian new year "Norooz" was on 20th March, today, at 16:57:07 GMT. We are a few hours into iranian year 1393.
The Iranian new year is celebrated by all Persians around the world at exactly the same time. A complete solar calendar year is 365 days and almost 6 hours, so depending on where you live, because of the time difference, the new year will happen at different time of the day.
I look forward to the Norooz when I be allowed to greet you and give you presents in person. This year I hope to pass them on to you through your Mum in May when I expect to see her. Here is what I got you.

Your father Farshid

Card

Card

Norooz card

Card for Atria

Handbag

I got you this girly, butterfly handbag as I thought it is very cute and just perfect for Norooz, which is also the beginning of Spring.

Book

This is a collection of quotations from Paulo's Coelho's books, full of wisdom, courage and inspirations. I hope you will enjoy them.

Book

"The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent."

Happy Valentine's Day my Dear Atria!

14/2/2014

Dear Atria,
Valentine's Day is really like any other day, but it gives me an excuse to tell you that I wish you all the love and happiness in the world and that you are my dearest daughter and you are always in my heart and in my thoughts. I hope that we will be also able to see each other soon and I will have an opportunity to be a part of your life.
With love,
Your father Farshid

Disney Valentine

New Year

1/1/2014

Happy New Year my dear Atria!

2014 will obviously be what you will make of it but I sincerely hope that you will choose for a magic year, full of energy, new experiences and meaningful people.

Happy New Year 2014!

Christmas card from your grandparents

23/12/2013

Dear Atria,
Your grandparents sent you a Christmas card and Christmas wishes.
As they can't sent it to you directly, they have posted it to me, I have taken a picture of the card and their wishes and am putting it below for you to see.
Have a very Merry Christmas

Card for Atria

Card for Atria

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