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MOM’S TIPS FOR BETTER TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN – part 3
“Travel with two kids is always necessities, but not always luxuries.“ I try to help my children on long journeys as much as I can. We gave up traveling by bus or car in favor of the train. The main reason – Dorothy, does not tolerate traveling by any other means of transport, only by train she is able to survive for several hours without vomiting. Our last trip to visit grandparents from the Czech Republic to Poland went perfectly. First, our coupe was full of preschool children. Which meant that such a group of kids would definitely not stay calm for long. They played, sang, changed places, and there…
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MY LITTLE ONES KNOW ME INCREDIBLY WELL
“My children don’t remember what they ate for dinner, but they remember who I am” Do you know that you mean everything to your children? I’m a hero, a designer, a doctor, a teacher, a psychologist, a dentist, a chef, an artist, and everything else kids expect me to be at any given time. Mom can be a fairy because kids want to play in a magical forest. You can be a princess because they built a castle. In their store, you’re always a customer. I’m never a cashier because my son said: “Mom, you don’t know how to use a cash register.” How could he even know that? Lately,…
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ANY NEWS FROM LIFE WITH TWO CHILDREN?
“Children are like ice cream. They’re messy, melty, brain-freezing, but you can’t get enough of them.” DINNER Dinners are still not good. Throughout the year, I once heard from the children that I had finally managed to make a good dish, it was pasta in mushroom sauce. This year, I didn’t make this dish for the first time, but I think my son was in a good mood, and that’s why I accepted the praise. Generally speaking, for my children, the best dish is the pasta itself – without the sauce, which they usually call “awful slime”. The tomato soup they ate at Grandma’s over the weekend was amazing and…
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WHEN YOUR BODY, MIND AND NERVES HAVE ENOUGH!
“Taking care of myself doesn’t mean me first, it means me too.” L.R. KNOST NERVES Working in a corporation where every week there’s a new project to be done so fucking quickly and the deadline kicks your butt again. When you hear every week that this is the last time we’ll work overtime and you stop believing it because you know it’s bullshit. There is also work waiting for you at home. Your children are waiting to be picked up from school. Do homework with your children and feed your children. Then, in such a drastically magical way, you no longer have a minute for yourself. You don’t have time…
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THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT WORKING MOTHER’S SACRIFICE
“Be the kind of mom who makes other moms want to be on your team” I thought the start after maternity leave would be just rough, and that the lack of sleep and fatigue would quickly disappear. Unfortunately, after six months in a new job, it’s just as difficult. I’m mentally stronger than I was in the first few weeks, and I’m already well organized. But the forgetfulness that never existed before pregnancy has increased to a level I hate, and I still don’t have enough time for everything. Below is a survival list for working mothers, based on my experience. FIRST Prepare everyone at work for the fact that…
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MY NEW LOOK ON MOM RETURNING TO WORK AFTER MATERNITY
I love being on teams with working mothers. They are the highest functioning messes I know.”-MARICAR SANTOS- When you read this, some of you will be outraged by my comments, and others will laugh. I know this because I’ve shared my opinions on returning to work, its pros and cons, more than once in a group of mothers. Just as each of us has a different approach to raising children, each of us grapples with the decision to return to work. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/the-ugly-truth-about-working-mothers-sacrifice/ I didn’t wait long with my first child, just like with my second, and after 10 months, when my maternity leave ended, I returned to work. There were…
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LITTLE HELP FROM LITTLE HANDS
“Children’s good habits will help them in the future.” During my second pregnancy, which was dominated by the feeling of constant fatigue, dizziness, and daily vomiting, I decided to ask my three-year-old son for help with everyday duties. What surprised me at first was that he didn’t make any objections, and even enjoyed it. What he liked the most was vacuuming, he could do that for hours. His second favourite duty was taking out the laundry and hanging it up too. My son had his own little drying rack where he hung his socks and underwear. It helped me a lot because I often get dizzy and vomit when I…
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THE SILENCE WHEN YOU HAVE CHILDREN AND ITS CONSEQUNCES
“When you had a busy day destroying your parent’s house.” I will tell you a few moments of silence that happened to me during motherhood and which taught me that silence with children always means danger. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/ordinary-mornings-by-boss-baby/ The first story of dangerous silence Dorothy was about a year old when she found my makeup bag and applied the brown eye shadow to herself, to the bathroom rug, and to the bathtub. I didn’t have time to clean up, because I was already late after washing Dorothy. Around 2 p.m. I got a call from my husband why the whole bathroom is covered in poop. The second story of dangerous silence…
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MY IMPORTANT ASPECTS THAT IMPROVE LEVEL OF THE HAPPINESS
Who needs happiness in life? Probably everyone, right? But each of us sees our happiness differently and draws it from different aspects of life. In my hierarchy of happiness 1st place takes: Health Is an important aspect of happiness in my life. I know one quote that says: “Money can buy everything but it can’t buy health”. Each of us has experienced some worse days in our lives: diseases, colds, fractures, injuries, or the popular COVID. I hate this feeling of weakness, pain, and helplessness. Then I feel really unhappy. Similarly, if someone close to me feels unwell. Once, my dad had a heart attack. He survived, but the whole story…
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MOTHERHOOD IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HARDEST PART OF LIFE
“Because of my children, I laugh like a crazy woman, cry like a wimp, and feel love more than ever before.” The above funny quote that starts today’s post is 100% true and is an exact example of me as a mom. Motherhood hasn’t changed me much, but it has shown me a new level of love. Being a new mom with no experience and many questions every day about what to do with a little new creature in my arms was difficult. During my first months with a newborn, I would describe myself as a mom crying like a wimp more than a mom laughing like a crazy woman. …
