Yesterday after a few weeks of sitting at home we finally were able to make it outside. I hadn’t been outside so long, that I was actually starting to forget what it looks like there.

There were some green leaves in the beginning of November.

As I wrote in the previous post, our littlest one has caught a cold and can’t actually get out of it for three weeks by now. This picture was taken by Anastasia when I was trying to get some chamomile tea in Marge. And it’s not an easy task, as she likes to bite a spoon, but doesn’t like to swallow things that doesn’t come from my breasts. So mostly what goes in her mouth, immediately goes out as well.

I wrote down a list  and put it on our kids room’s door as a reminder for me with all of our treatment methods for kids during a day. Here it is:

– put on socks and slippers;

– warm up feet and hands in a hot bathtub;

– add a few drops  of an Eucalyptus oil in a hot bathtub to breath it in while warming your feet and hands;

– clean noses with Humer;

– rinse a throat with a mixture of water, salt and baking soda (older kids only);

– spray a Calendula tincture in a throat (older kids only);

– spray an Euphobrium nasal spray (older kids only);

– drink a chamomile tea;

– rub a Hustagil Balsam balm on the skin of chest and back;

– ventilate;

– eat some garlic;

– eat some vitamin C;

– eat some cranberries  and honey.

Any other ideas of how to treat a cold?

Every time I’m sure Marge won’t surprise with new skills after one more month, she does it.

Marge is trying to sit by herself.

She claps her hands.

She actually tried food and loved yogurt, bullion, water, cheese, cucumber, apples and bread. And she hates everything sweet, like bananas, pumpkin and her cough syrup (apples she liked were more sour than sweet).  She also has tried buckwheat, fish, chicken and other food, but hadn’t much interest about that.

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I have noticed a certain periodicity of my desire to be engaged in any particular of my hobbies. I paint in May, I sew in June, I knit in September. And I always want to draw some vectors in Illustrator by Christmas time (but I do take photographs all of the time). And now that winter holidays are coming, I have a mood of working in Illustrator again. So I’m planning to draw some more cute stuff. What do you say about some custom envelopes?

Sometimes we just need to believe that our Angel knows better.
Sometimes we just need to let him go. 

A few days ago I found out that Veronika grew out from her dancing shoes. So I went to a supermarket for a new pair of shoes for her.  I’m not visiting this kind of places in this time very often, so I was surprised, that the shop was already filled with different Christmas stuff.  I hadn’t realised that it’s less than a month left to the begging of an Advent time and there is not much time left to think up something interesting and make it.  And believe me, it was really early this year, as I tend to forget this thing.

I was hunting for an autumn signs today. “Autumn signs” is a Veronika’s phrase that she brought from her kindergarten last year. The truth is, I always hated cold seasons. And an autumn itself, particularly the part of it after fall and before winter always made me feel a depression with it’s gloominess of grey days, trees, grass, birds and actually grey everything. But something has changed this year. I don’t know, maybe it’s all because of the kids, but I truly love dimmed colours I see around me now, and the sun, soft and diffused by clouds. I like even those grey crows sitting on tall completely naked black trees. I remembered the autumn smell of fallen leaves from my childhood and was able to feel it again. I have a weird feeling like I’ve entered an illustration to a fairy tale about nature and creatures that live in woods. This inspires me a lot, if I only had some more time to create!

Marge turned 7 months old last week. Just some quick facts about her.

We call her a bun at home.

Fall is already on it`s halfway here in Latvia. Thanks to a few sunny days kids had a time of their lives playing with leaves.

The next day after this we had an opportunity to visit the playground again. I kept in mind that the last time we were there I had a strong desire to have some hot tea, so I took with me a thermos.