EVERY DAY TELLS A STORY

I LIKE HOW LIFE can excitedly change its direction the minute you want it to, the second you feel that's the right decision, this is the next step. I love when it suddenly changes from ordinary to extraordinary within one morning. It has started off very dramatically - if you cannot speed up your child's passport application process while you've already booked a flight for a family vacation (July, we thought we were not coming), well... you can only jump on a plane yourself and apply again in your home country. Funnily enough it is our last chance to have her travel document before we actually OFFICIALLY fly together later on. I'm not mentioning extra fees and headache inducing two-way travel over next 24 hours and of course one of us coming back in a month's time to collect the most talked about booklet, but hey! is there anything better to enliven our life than a last minute surprise? Seeing our dear parents, having a chance to stroll down the high street of our home town in atmosphere of familiar sounds and images? There.is.not.

Whilst a lot of this trip is a pure joy it is proving to be a tough one not taking our daughter on board with us. For the first time in our long lived lives our precious girl will be thousand miles away. I can already feel something caught in my eyelashes... Luckily - and amazingly – Damian’s brother and his wife (to their two boys delight) happily agreed to look after Nadia until we’re back to hug her like there’s no count-down clock timed to the minute (do they realize what they're up to?). She’s gone a bit children mad and can play tirelessly for ages forgetting who she came with so it will be natural for her to play, fall asleep on the couch then wake up in the morning and we’ll be back just in time for lunch. Plush toys, three wheeled vehicles due to tear and wear process, Barbies in your best accessories please keep Nadia company, assign time to her needs. In no time it’ll be utterly family based fun until no further notice. 

  

I’m off spending time with my little flower from this moment until pj's time then off packing my small cabin bag (can you imagine us walking through the security check points with our two small cabin bags like business people? ;) Happy Friday, everyone! xx

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PRE-SCHOOL BOUTIQUE: SUNSHINE, DO STICK AROUND!

CATALOUGES OF KIDS summer/spring collections have marked my carpet through their fat bodies piled up next to walls sitting quietly in the shadow of my sofa. Whilst I would normally allocate hours for looking through their glossy pages I have been constantly challenged and insanely provoked by the moody weather never getting a chance to dress my girl the way this time of year encourages. Neither short sleeves nor bare toesies played in the sand yet, summer hats and strappy sandals never peaked out of their colourful shoe boxes. Get to look around for abandoned autumn brochures from last season and splurge on hoodies, tights and jumpers. But we're not those who complain (for longer than it is socially acceptable) and use what we've got for the weather we're subjected to. It can still shout happiness and fun in its thicker fabrics. So if bare skin is still off, we've covered it with deep colour, spring pattern and happy motifs. This way we can handle you, moody skies for a little longer. 

Thanks for visiting the boutique and may the sun be with you! 

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7/30 - TELL ME I'M SPENDING A MONTH ON A HOUSEBOAT

AND I AM OUT THE door in a second. Or you could generously transfer me to the beach cabin I will pleasantly spend all summer eating fish and writing postcards to everyone I'm friends with. It's not only our personal space that reflects who we are but our travel (dream) destinations tell what we not necessarily want to share about ourselves the more verbal way. With every trip I feel I'm getting to know myself better (or so I hope), each time I learn something new about myself list of reasons for continuing renewing my passport grows. Let me show you 'three places on Earth I would like to visit before I die' (as a continuation of my 30 day blogging challenge).

Taking a summer long road trip to every fish village on the Italian coast would make my heart skip crazily more than a lot. Bathing in the golden light of an early evening sat at a little coffee table after a silent hike through empty side roads before going to bed late talking pasta cooking class in the morning... Tell me it's not going to happen in my next life.  

Picking fresh flowers from a morning market before heading to a nice cafè for breakfast and feeling like hanging at home can't be achieved anywhere else. Hello New York and your glossy buildings, yellow cabs and changing lights. One day I shall make up my mind on choosing the city in its blinding sun or in the snow coating trees like icing sugar. 

All photographs via Pinterest

If England decides to have autumn-like summer I'm off to Tirol mountains to discover shocks of colour at the glistening lake in no time. The views will make sure all the stress melts off with the first cold lager and a smiling husband I will have dinner with at the expensive date spot. Because today I get to be somebody else. A stranger, observer tasting it for the very first time not worrying about days slipping away. 

 

Where would you like to go this, next or any year? x

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BIRTHDAY BOYS AND THEIR GIRLS

MAY IS ONE OF those months when I love to cuddle unnaturally much. One person only. And organize a surprise party complete with bottle of champagne, chocolate cake (not pictured but tasted really well with sparkles, believe me), muffin mini-candle-stand, people jumping out of bedroom shouting 'surprise!' on top of their voices (highly pitched girlie sounds included). Because this man of mine turns a whooping thirty four unknowingly dragging me along with him in this year of birthdays (there are still plenty ahead!). But that's just great with me as I couldn't imagine anyone else posing next to me on the last photo, neither anyone sharing this little space we call home. So I wanted to make it as 'wow' as possible and came up with an idea of cutting little hearts from red cardboard, writing cute messages and hiding them in more or less visible places for Dee to have a little peak around (out of 34 only 4 hearts not found, let's be honest my hiding things skills are rubbish). Hunting through coming to life closet I have chosen navy blouse with a heart made of zillions of studs and paired it with sticking with me for good and bad blue o'l jeans. Birthday boy came straight from work so didn't have a chance to get changed among those incredibly whimsical activities (of which taking over party table was his best). 

Food consisted of cheese crackers eaten with selection of cheese (erm... yes), smoked salmon and cucumber, popcorn and lots of bubbly. There aren't many photos of our children in this post as they took over the job of redecorating our bedroom. I'm sure they wanted it to look grander and super cool. There may be some tricks to achieve more interesting perspective out there but none of them compares to our kids' imagination. Even the largest of spaces appear tinier than they possibly are with the content of drawers being distributed around by little hands. Once they nailed the decor everything else fell into place ;)

It was so much fun to be partying with such wonderful people. Cheers!!

 

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