Jul
5
Sales shopper
by Sofia - in Random
Have you already shopped the sales? What are your picks this year? I have been absolutely off my game as we only seem to need stuff for the Fall but I guess it would make sense to check all the delicious choices for next summer. But for some reason I am not up for it. Can I be all shopped out? What is that? I´m already looking for Fall pieces to arrive. I feel like summer has been on the shelves for so long.
Anyway here are some of my favourite brands/ sites online for kids if you are on the hunt…
We have the coat and the shoes and love both very very much! Coat now on sale.
Bonpoint is such a favourite but it feels so much better on sale if you know what I mean.
Our favourite dress is now on sale and it will be just as on point next summer.
This one could be my sales buy for Bubble Gum. She loves these kinds of dresses and I think it would be a cute first day of school outfit with her white avarca sandals if it´s warm or even white sneakers.
Petit Bateau dresses are so timeless. We buy their stripes, t- shirts and underwear every single year. Best quality too.
Have fun shopping!
Lattemamma
Jul
1
Swimsuit love
by Sofia - in Blog collaboration Good things for kids Shopping
We had the most amazing holiday in Italy and also on the island after that. I hope you caught some glimpses on Insta. In Italy we spent most of our time by the pool, or for the kids in the pool. So they were rotating swimsuits, bikinis & uv-shirts all day long. Here are our favourites this summer. The Jacadi ones I have linked on the blog earlier. Perfect, classic, timeless and cute. They already sold out, but there are some other cute ones still available. The ice-cream and flamingo are from Sal & Pimenta Kids. They are to die for delicious. When my girls wore them all the other little girls wanted one too. They are just that cute.
Jun
19
Bucket list
by Sofia - in Random
For the longest time in my life I have been the kind of person who lives in the moment and enjoys the little things and I have also been very aware and grateful for all the blessings I have been given in my life. But I have also always been a dreamer! Not so much yearning for more all the time but just a big time daydreamer. Most of my dreams are very doable and some have come to life with pure luck and some just remain these lovely things I can imagine perhaps someday coming true. Then there is the bucket list. I have not written it down anywhere but in my head there are a few things that top those daydreams and I hope to actually get to experience. And I can tell you that when those dreams come true and you are there pinching yourself it´s really amazing.
Even though I am a dreamer I´m also very realistic. I can imagine beautiful places but I ´m also aware that old houses sometimes have a mild mildewy scent or that hotel rooms don´t always look exactly like they do in the promotional pictures. If it´s windy a fabulous yacht still rocks in the sea. I know the most beautiful country houses in the archipelago have mosquitos and I know what it feels like to get sand in my shoes. But to me that is part of the whole thing. It´s what makes it real. It´s what makes pinching yourself unnecessary. And when you realise that, you are in for a whole new experience. It´s about enjoying your dream without the disappointment of it´s little reality flaws, so to speak.
This year, as I have perhaps said before, is a continuance for last year as I´m crossing more things of my bucket list. For the longest time life was filled with such high points of a humanbeing´s life. Engagements, weddings, babies, nieces, nephews and godchildren born. New houses and new careers for yourself and for the people you love. So at some point the bucket list was just there waiting and not needed. Every year had a new amazing life experience waiting. But then came the lull. And it was time to open the page of the bucket list. The kids are old enough to join you for the ride or if necessary they are also old enough to enjoy supplemental fun whilst you enjoy the list with your spouse or friends. Most of my bucket list things include travelling so it´s a very important point. For instance we really want to go to the safari with our children one year but we wanted to wait so that they are old enough to remember the experience their whole lives as it´s not a trip we plan to make many times.
One of the things on my bucket list has been staying in a castle in France or Italy with a bunch of our very best friends. We have spent more than a decade of midsummers sipping rosé wine and talking about our dream. And last midsummer we decided that now is the time. We came home, we found a castle ( we needed one that houses our group of 25) that has vineyards surrounding the area and booked our flights last August. We found ours in Italy. One of the things on our list was to have a pool for the kids ( we have 13 all together) and this one had it all. So on Wednesday we fly to Rome, rent cars from there and start our amazing journey towards Lombardia ( next to better known Tuscany on the map if you are looking for it). We have cooks there so for once midsummer is not about rotating turns on catering for our huge and partly very ” foodie” minded group ( which is also fun but sometimes it´s nice to not think about cooking and to just enjoy the food).
