My zone
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I AM HAPPY WITH WHO I AM NOW
“In the morning I look at my two children and tell myself what else in my life could be so perfect, successful, and emanating pure love.” MY CHILDREN’S ORDINARY MORNING Wake up Every morning from 6:30 am we are getting ready with my children for Nursery. It’s 7:30 am and Dorothy keeps swapping one pair of leggings for another. The “Paw Patrol” tops don’t match her mood today, and she wants the “Pepa Pig” outfit. Patrick is dressed and ready but watches Lego Friends on Netflix while his mother and sister argue. I admire my patience again, sipping my coffee and waiting for Dora to finish her fashion runway. Nursery time…
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MY NEW LIFE IS A PIECE OF CAKE
“Sometimes our life has to be totally shaken, changed, and rearranged again, to bring us to the place where we are supposed to be.” A year in a new country. I’m Polish but I live in the Czech Republic. After one year I am surprised at how hard beginning a new life is. Especially since I have experience, I am an immigrant for half my life. Acceptance in a new country should seem like a piece of cake. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/the-beginning-of-the-new-life/ What I hear every day and of course annoying me the most is: “We don’t understand what you are saying” – I try to speak Czech, which is not too difficult…
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TIPS FOR BOOST MORNING ENERGY USED BY ME – AS A MOM
“Being a mom. This means having to choose between eating, showering, or sleeping. You can’t do all three in one day.” Again in our lives, the sun has set for good, the weather is gloomy, coffee is not helping anymore, and they are constantly talking on the radio about diets, a healthy lifestyle https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/do-i-really-look-like-what-i-eat/ and advice on how to best raise our energy levels. And I write and listen, and one of the dietitians starts the interview with modest advice:“We definitely don’t start our day with alcohol.” I almost choked on my coffee with laughter. I heard from my grandma that she liked to add rum to tea or any…
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MAKE A MISTAKE, LEARN, FIX IT
“MISTAKES ARE PROOF THAT YOU ARE TRYING” First, everyone makes big or small mistakes with dramatic or positive results. Looking at my mistakes in the past, I can say that I like my mistake, I like the way I learn from my mistake, and I like the progress that I have made through my mistakes. You know, life without mistakes would be easier and complete tasks faster, but we are only human and we learn throughout our lives. Due to the little and silly mistakes I made in the last 6 months, I lost much more time than I should have and worked more than I should have. MY WORK ON…
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BEING A NEW MOM DOESN’T MEAN BEING THE BEST
“The day your baby is born is the day your life changes, and it’s up to you what changes you make.” In this post, I will go back far in my memories, to the first birth of my baby. It was 5 years ago when Patrick was born. We lived in England at the time, but this post is not about the country and place, but the hard search for mother-mates. And it can be funny that I thought it wouldn’t be a problem because I became a mom at the same time as my best friends. But that was the biggest problem – mom’s brain – that’s it. Why all my…
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MEN’S ZONE AND THEIR LIFE STORIES
“Dad: He’s less dramatic than Mom, but harder to find him when we want something.” A few days ago I started to think about presenting the other side of parenting, about my other half, the father of my kids, about the role of Daddy in the family. Days passed quickly and the thought vanish between other topics. But one-day small conversation appears: “Did you check my last post?“ “Why? Is something about me.” Since it was not the first time I heard this response from my husband, and it was not the first time that he irritated me with this comment, I said: “You ask again why I am not…
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I PRESENT MYSELF, MY LIFE, AND MY PROJECT
“FIRST – TRY, SECOND – BELIEVE, THIRD – DREAM, FORTH – DARE, FINALLY – COME TRUE” The title sounds like I’m trying to introduce myself today and say a few words about myself. It’s the truth. If you are asking: Why am I doing this initiative now? Why not in the first posts? The answer is simple. I was not at the right stage of self-satisfaction, and self-development and I didn’t have strong skills to write about myself in a way that would not bore you. I want to again come back to the topic of strong women. But I’m not talking about physical strength, today it’s going to be…
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MORE TRUE FACES, LESS FAKE SMILES.
“I don’t care about fake boobs, but I’m fed up with a fake smile”. If someone has known me for a while, right after the title, they will know what I put in today’s post. But for new readers and new future friends, I will describe some examples from my life. I’ll show you how people I knew hide their emotions, and what’s worse, instead of bad emotions they use a fake smile and say: “I’m okay”, “I feel great” or “You know me: same old, same old.” Replacing bad emotions with sweet, fake feelings, false smiles, and unreal conversation, we called with friends: “Vomit the rainbow”. For one reason…
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DO I REALLY LOOK LIKE WHAT I EAT?
“In a balanced diet, you keep cookies in one hand and coffee in the other hand”. Today, to wake up, I switched to “youth” radio, and instead of music, there were questions and answers about health, healthy eating, diet, healthy lifestyle, and even healthy sleep. After hearing that cookies are unnecessary empty sugar, and it’s best not to eat them at all, I changed stations. I’ve heard in the past that coffee is unhealthy, wine kills, butter raises cholesterol, and after a few years, tea is unhealthy, not coffee, a glass of wine after eating aids digestion, and butter improves eyesight. Just about drinking liters of water, the concepts remain…
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NOBODY ASKED ME
“OF ALL THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, THE GREATEST IS TO BE A MOTHER”. – LIN YUTANG – With my first child, I started maternity leave in February, one month before the birth. Since I was feeling great physically and mentally, I reverted to my phobia of reading a dozen books. After collecting about 20 recommended books for mothers, I gave up reading the rest. The main reasons for stopping reading were the same stories about the baby’s sleeping routine, the same rules about breastfeeding, the newborn baby’s first stages, and other dry facts of motherhood that were repeated. When I lost all hope for an interesting book, I found a…
