When Tiss was little, and we were just freshly moved to Latvia, I did what any self respecting mother/museum curator does. I took my kid to museums. Doesn't matter if they've only just started to walk - museums are places for kids and parents, right? Places where mothers can combine a bit of "me time" with entertaining the family.
Well, that's was my firm belief when I arrived in this country. And for a few years, I desperately held on to my belief and trundled...
Our ongoing saga of encouraging Mikus' literacy continues... he is now reading, slowly, but unfortunately all of the Latvian children's books that are Mikus' reading level are about bunnies, and pussy cats, and various other domestic and forest animals. Which I love, by the way. But Mikus wants to be BIG. He wants to read cool stuff, like his brother does. Fighting and dragons and pirates and boys own adventure stuff. I remember there were cool series of...
I know it's an urban myth - that Inuits have hundreds of words to describe different types of snow. But it's one of those myths that I love. I totally get why you would think so. Especially as someone who hasn't grown up with snow, I have been amazed that there are so many different kinds of snow, depending on the outside temp and general weather conditions. Different types that do different thngs.
There's that fine icing sugar that swirls downwards when its super cold: "silver rain", the...
It always seems to me that other people have more hours than I do. I have no idea where mine go, but other people seem to have things like Lazy Sundays. Weekends where they stay home and potter about, knit, arrange their handmade cushions on the couch, have afternoon naps, and hang around with their kids watching old movies.
I only do that kind of thing when we go to the country - minus the cushions, and the knitting. Mainly because in the country there is no possibility...
The best way to spend a day off school because of the super duper cold...
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I know Canadians and Siberians would scoff at this post - but holy HELL, it's cold in LV at the moment! It's so cold that even the locals are talkin' about it - it's one of the main stories in our daily newspaper every day this week. Last night when we went to bed, our thermometers told us it was approaching -28 degrees celsius (that's about - 18 degrees farenheit). It's been so freezing that the boys got two days off school last week. Mind you, I think the rule about primary...
