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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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MY NEW LIFE IS PIECE OF CAKE – PART 2
“I open my eyes to a new life, but my mind and heart are full of memories from my old life”. For me, acceptance in a new country seemed like a piece of cake, but reality quickly and painfully kicked me in the butt. As a reminder, I am Polish; I have a Czech husband and two children. I have been living with my family for two years in a new country – the Czech Republic. After two years, I’m still surprised that it’s not any easier for me than it was a year ago. Seen from my kid’s perspective Patrick and Dorothy were born in England – Brighton. Patrick…
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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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MY ATTEMPTS TO SURVIVE NEW EASTER TRADITIONS
“BUNNY KISSES – EASTER WISHES“ Time for a post about traditional Easter in the Czech Republic. But in order not to be boring and only about the traditions of one country, we will return to the English traditions (where we lived for 10 years) and Polish ones, where I come from. EASTER IN CZECH REPUBLIC Easter decorations In the Czech Republic, we are decorating eggs the whole week before Easter. We have plenty of places where workshops for children on decorating eggs are held. Children decorate eggs in schools, nurseries, at grandparents’, and with their parents at home. And this is one of Czech’s best-known and widely practiced Easter traditions.…
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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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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.” To make a mother’s world less simple and colorful, there are people around her who can really mess up her life. Sometimes they’re close friends, family, and sometimes complete strangers who judge a child’s behavior, clothing, diet, etc. Because I received so many comments during the first three years with one child, and the next two with the second, I decided to share them with the world. These are comments that, as a new mom, used to hurt or upset me. But after five years of my own experience…
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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. …
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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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MY CHILDREN’S SLEEPING ROUTINE – IT’S A F**** JOKE
“YOU AND YOUR CHILD ARE READY TO LEARN NEW THINGS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING” I’m not among new parents and new moms anymore, but I try to write posts about parenting roles in a way that will make you laugh and give you a realistic representation of parental life. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/with-the-witchs-advice-my-coffee-never-tastes-the-same/ I add posts about hardships and emotions with newborns. I hope they will be an educational form for you. The main episodes come from my own sincere parenting experiences. I affirm there are no basic rules for new moms and newborns. Theoretically, it may be, but this method doesn’t exist in practice. As a new mother, I was addicted to…
