My zone
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GOOD PEOPLE GIVE VALUE TO YOUR LIFE
“Keep in your life only in good company because soon you will be one of them.” Check if you have a place to sleep, if you have food in the fridge if you are healthy and if there are people you love around, and finally stop complaining about how poor you are and how bad you feel. I once met a person who should set a record for complaining. What I remember from talking to her and what still makes me laugh is the story of her return from vacation. “Hi, you’re back from Greece, how was it?“ “Well, nothing special. Far from the beach, hot, only Greek food, really…
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HOW TO SCREW UP NEW MOM’S DAY?
“The more I caught the experience as a new mom, the more I realize that only my decisions are worth gold.” So that the mother’s world is not so simple and colorful, there are people around who can really screw up a mother’s life. Sometimes they are close friends, family, and sometimes complete strangers who evaluate our child’s behaviours, clothes, diet, etc. As there were a lot of comments for the first three years with one child, and for the next two years with the other, I decided to show this bunch to the world. These are comments that once as a new mom hurt or upset me. However, after…
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MY RELEASED TITS MAKE A SILLY PROBLEM FOR OTHER PEOPLE
As I write in my posts from time to time, I have been with my family in the Czech Republic for a year. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/my-new-life-is-a-piece-of-cake/. The reason is my husband, whom I met in England. He is Czech and from the beginning of our acquaintance, he emphasized that the Czech Republic is his country, family, and home. After the appearance of the first child in the world, we began to seriously think about returning. Our daughter, a second child, was born on the first day of Covid. Due to all the restrictions related to the pandemic, she did not see her grandparents for the first year of her life. This greatly accelerated our decision to leave England and settle in my husband’s hometown. NEWS…
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THE END OF CHOCOLATE IS THE END OF THE WORLD
“My best friend – chocolate chip cookies” Now, instead of Christmas commercials and treats, I see advertisements for slimming agents, slimming teas, and other diet-promoting products everywhere. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/do-i-really-look-like-what-i-eat/ Chocolate for breakfast was not the reason I’ve never been a fan of diets. My body is resistant to a chocolate bar that I eat with my morning coffee every day but not very resistant to a sandwich, croissant, potatoes, and of course, beer. Eating chocolate chip cookies, chocolate bars, or anything that contains chocolate for breakfast, my body digested faster and better than a baguette, roll, or bread. And the same with dinners, rice or pasta didn’t accumulate belly fat, but…
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IS THIS MY GOOD LUCK OR BAD LUCK PERIOD OF LIFE?
“In my case, bad luck makes good luck story” A good thing is coming and then BOOM, shit happened. I know this experience didn’t just happen to me. Only for me in the last few months, this reel of luck and misfortune repeated itself several times. As I have already written in several posts, I am in a new country with a foreign language and on stage to find a job in the Czech Republic. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/my-new-life-is-a-piece-of-cake/ Patrick normally went to preschool in September, but I couldn’t find a job because there was no place for Dorothy in nurseries. After 6 months I found a free place for her in the…
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UNEXPECTED CHANGES ARE GOOD FOR ME
“THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN UNEXPECTEDLY.” Today’s post is short but honest. I noticed that in December everyone writes a summary of the year or a list of achievements of the year. I honestly don’t care for it. Everything that I managed to achieve last year came out unplanned, mostly due to the initiative of the people I surround myself with. The strength of family support Without the support and help of my loved ones, I would probably do nothing but move to a new country and feel sorry for myself, how hard it is here. I started with blogging, which I always thought about. This allowed me to forget for…
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LET THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS SPARKLE INTO MY HOUSE
“MY INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTMAS IS VERY SIMPLE: DO WHAT YOU LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE” Hundred years ago, maybe not so long ago, but 10 years have passed for sure, I wrote about the pre-Christmas rituals in my home in Poland. Now I’m reading this and laughing because the funniest thing is that these customs haven’t changed for centuries, be it Easter or Christmas. Rituals are the same before every holiday. Have you already guessed what pre-Christmas customs this post will be about? The pre-Christmas atmosphere in my family home was felt for miles. Stressed mom, grandma, aunt, and how many women were in my family, all felt the…
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MY ATTEMPTS TO SURVIVE NEW CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
“SPARKLY, JOYFUL, AND DELICIOUS. I HOPE YOUR CHRISTMAS IS EXACTLY LIKE GINGERBREAD MAN.” Every year in the first week of December we prepare gingerbread men with the children. Recipe for years from my mother, but the gingerbread man decorating patterns are different every year. The locations where we create them are also different. In 2018 we baked and decorated gingerbread men in Brighton, UK. 2019 in Poland in my hometown, near Jelenia Góra. Again, but for the last time – in 2020 Great Britain. In 2021, we moved our family to the Czech Republic and brought our December tradition of baking gingerbread men here. For me and my children, the moments of preparation of gingerbread…
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MAD SUMMER DAYS WITH MY FAMILY
“If your children came back from the yard with mud on their knees, rocks in their shoes, and sand in their hair, it means that they have a joyful life.” Recently, I was going through my notes to choose an interesting topic for my blog. Since summer is over, I decided to write a family brief of summer days. Such stories from the summer that I wrote down and could laugh over and over again, anytime, anywhere. However, it will not be anything related to lovely family holidays, beautiful days with children, etc., these will be dark holiday stories and not very happy from the beginning, but with a happy…
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ORIGINAL MOUNTAIN LEGENDS AND MORE 2
WINTER EPISODE “ON FROSTY, SNOWY DAYS, BETTER STAY WITH MULLED WINE AND A WONDERFUL VIEW OF THE MOUNTAINS.” Do you remember the movie “The Holiday” with Cameron Diaz and their house swap offer? I have in my mind a scene where Cameron is walking around in high heels and carrying a large suitcase in the snow. The taxi driver left her on the main road, and the cottage she replaced for vacation is obviously in the middle of nowhere. Such scenes with tourists are also on the agenda in my village in the mountains. Due to the incorrect GPS route, most tourists get lost here. It happened several times that…
