Aug
8

First grade

by Sofia   -   in Random

Here´s to a new beginning! Cotton Candy´s first day of school. Ever. So exciting! Let´s hope these kids we are raising will change this world for the (even) better. 

Do you still remember your first day of school? I remember mine very distinctly. I remember what I wore and I remember what my friend wore. Well, she wasn´t my friend yet then but we became friends later on and still are ( love you M!). Let´s just say that I wore a pleated skirt and mary janes and had a very long hair and she wore cut off jeans shorts, a colourful stripy t-shirt and a chain belt. And she had a very very short hair, shorter than most of the boys. But she was too pretty to be a boy ( although I wasn´t quite sure at first). She was the smartest kid in our class and she still is. And to this day ( although she has long hair now) you could absolutely see her wearing a colourful stripy t-shirt and me in a pleated skirt. I think she has never owned a pleated skirt. But it has never been the point of our friendship. I hope Cotton Candy also keeps her first grade friends for life. 

Lattemamma

p.s. The Nelson Mandela quote is a free classroom printable you can find here.

Aug
5

Have a great weekend!

by Sofia   -   in Random

Tulin vai toivottamaan sinulle ihanaa viikonloppua näiden ajatusten myötä!

I just came to wish you a great weekend with these random quotes!

Lattemamma

p.s. Kiitos kommenteistanne tällä viikolla, yritän vastailla mahdollisimman pian!

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?