Aug
3

Falling

by Sofia   -   in Good things for kids  Shopping

I know I know I know we are no where near close enough to Fall for me to even mention it but I´m still going to. Because I found this pretty dress for my big girl and I wanted to share. Every summer when the nights start to get darker and I can count weeks or days to the day (pre)school starts again I start to imagine what the “fall look” will be like. In August the girls often still wear summer clothes to school but the colder fall days always come so suddenly it´s good to be prepared. As a child I used to plan my first day of school outfit weeks before the occasion and my mind still works that way. I´m ahead even though I´m present and enjoying the moment. This fall I see my girls having grown up a lot. Cotton Candy is starting school ( next week!) and I have to admit that even though the passing time always does take me by surprise I know she has grown so much in the past summer and she is more than ready to start that journey. We already chose her first day of school outfit ( a blue Liberty print top from Jacadi with a cotton cardigan and jeans or white shorts if it´s warm and white sneakers). But this one she chose is for the cooler weather and I can imagine her in this dress, knee high socks or tights, the ankle booties we bought and a slouchy beanie on her long hair.

Aug
2

Byebye holiday

by Sofia   -   in Random

Although Summer is far from over my holiday is closing in on it´s end and the schools are soon starting in Finland. Little Bubble Gum already went back to her nursery ( 1 more year there and she is a pre-schooler, oh no!) and Cotton Candy started her first ever day camp for this week ( sports outside “all day” every day, she is ecstatic). I can not believe my little girl is starting school next week! It feels absurd! But she is and she is no longer a baby, that is for sure.

The summer holiday was just what it was supposed to be. It was relaxing. We barely did a thing and I loved it. I read from someone´s Instagram that she felt guilty her bigger girls ( about the same age as mine) wanted to do so many things but as they just had a baby they could not travel anywhere. And everyone commenting were so worried about their kids being bored that summer ( not her kids, their own). I never even thought about that. I get it that when my girls are (pre)teens they probably don´t want to spend their summer holidays on an island with their parents doing nothing ( that is when they get a boat to cruise to the surrounding islands to hang out with the kids there like my husband and his brothers used to do) but when they are small I think just being with their parents and cousins and yes sometimes getting even a little bored and then inventing something to do is not a bad holiday plan. The girls did get a bit cabin crazy from time to time and were on top of each other like little cubs but most of the time they were playing so nicely just making up games and hanging out with their cousins. In two weeks we read the first Harry Potter with Cotton Candy and the third week we got halfway through the second one. We played games ( our favourites this summer were Pouet Pouet and Sardines), we baked together, we swam, we crafted, we rehearsed a shadow puppet show, we cruised on our little boat, we made a spa but most of the time the girls just played together. Being bored is not a bad thing in this hectic world. I would like to think it either loads your batteries or it makes you create something. I guess as a working parent of two fairly small girls I think of bored as a luxury I fairly stumble on so I may have a rosy tint on bored at this stage of my life. What do you think?