Me and the girls worked on cleaning their room today. I actually haven’t seen it clean from the Marge’s birth. Then Anastasia and Veronika left to their father’s and I kept on cleaning the room by myself in Marge’s company. Still a way to go, but I hope we will be done by tomorrow.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Прибираем в детской
Ух ты, Маргоше 9 (месяцев)!
And that’s a 3/4 of a year! And I’m late with the post by a week, just like I usually am.
There was a lot of exploring this month. Marge obviously finds it absolutely delightful that she can travel across all of our rooms. Marge was so active this month that I’m actually not sure if she gained more weight or lost some during the month. She truly has a lot of stuff to do!
Нарядная Рига
School holidays have started today (hooray for the company at home!). And today we had to go downtown to fetch our Christmas cards. Yeah, I know, it’s a bit too late for Christmas cards, but it’s me and my time-feel and my organisation skills. And it’s better late than never, isn’t it?
>Это зима, детка<
Have you already decorated your home? I haven’t, aside of the Christmas lights on our kitchen table, that actually were left there pretty much accidentally a few days ago, but fitted so well, so I decided to leave them there. The coldness and greyness of outside just have to be counterbalanced with winter-holiday-inspired decorated rooms and a sweet vanilla smell of a home-made baking. By the way, speaking of baking, I would suggest you to visit this treasure page with a pile of specially selected recipes of home baked cookies.
Рецепт моих любимых рождественских печений
Last time I mentioned my favourite cookies to bake in winter season. I have been using this recipe for at least six years and I love it. It’s really easy and you can either cook a lot of cookies at once, or prepare sticks of a dough to keep in your fringe.
Шаблон конверта и бланк для приглашений
Do you like to get together with friends and share interesting activities, like crafting or baking? Well, I do. And my kids do either. And now that it’s time for a winter cookies baking (I have one favourite cookies’ recipe for this time of a year that I’m going to share next time), Anastasia decided to invite her friends for cookies baking party!
A Kid and a Cat
Ребёнок и котёнок
Marge and Phoebe. These pictures make me laugh every time I see them. I just need to share them!
DIY Paper Christmas Tree Hanging
Бумажный шар на ёлку своими руками
As I mentioned in one of the previous posts, my daughters got a mail from Christmas elves and the elves asked them to make a paper ball. The elves actually sent two coloring pages with ornaments to use for the creation, but we also did it using a paper randomly coloured with watercolours.
Sharing Christmas Countdown Printable
To make the countdown easier, I drew this calendar (girls received it with a letter from elves).
Click to download English version.
Click to download Russian version.
Нажми, чтобы скачать версию календаря на английском.
Нажми, чтобы скачать версию календаря на русском.
Hello December!
Привет, декабрь!
I’m pretty sure, this time is the most favourite time of a year to my kids. Though, we not a truly religious family, we have our concept of why this holidays are so important to every human being and I’m also constantly seeking what this holidays really mean to me. That said, while it’s so unpleasingly cold outside, these days are always filled with warmth and magic in our house.