Interesting drawing

Greta is drawing. it is a self portrait, but it is hard to understand what is it, just nearby...

and the bonus - me and the kids

Christmas holidays and celebrating the New Year

The Christmas holidays went so fast. We had guests many guests during this time. We went to visit some friends, too. We enjoyed the holidays and the good food. We spent time giving, receiving and enjoying the Christmas presents. We baked, played, painted and had fun. We slept strange hours, we slept late and we overslept. We met somebody in the town every time we went out, we wished them Merry Christmas and The happy New Year. We enjoyed playing in the snow before the rain and the warm weather came and washed it all away. It was really really a great family and friends time this year. 

I am supposed to underline the results of this year, right? But I have a million things spinning around in my head. Tomorrow the new year starts. But I am so happy with this one, too. Great things happened, and even greater are planned. Everything turned out great. I am thankful for that. And I am patient. I feel that many things are unfinished this year, but I feel confident that they will turn out just well next year. Having said that, I am happily celebrating the end of this year and the start of the next one. I am ready for whatever is prepared in it. We will see. 

Today Greta helped me to clean the house after the holiday mess. More visiting friends, today too. We visited our friends where we were 4 families, with kids. Delicious food, great time, lots of fun and play, both inside and outside. I am so happy and thankful. 

Anyway, thank you for being with me this year. 

Have a great New Year celebration (if it is not too late!) See you next year. 

Saturday mornings

... are one of my favourite part of the week. Because even if Greta woke me up at 4am, some time around 7am I can go for a long and nice run, later I will have my shower and a morning smoothie, will make the house look like home, and will just enjoy watching a little child of mine, still in pajamas, play the whole evening with the cars or drawing one of her cute drawings.
Have a great weekend!

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember
 

The latest paintings

Greta continues painting, meanwhile. She explains to me some of the pictures, so I know what she means. So look for yourself:
1. This one is a mouse eatinh something, sitting on the grass. The sun shines on the blue sky with some clouds. Yes, she told me all that.

2. These are the snowmen

3. Yellow bird, violet mouse, light-blue person, pink snake. The green, I don't remember.

4. The blue bird.

All of them at age 2.9.

Today's art

Greta brought home today some art from the kindergarten. This candle holder she made for the party of light (yesterday).

And this is something she draws now: you can see a girl with long hair, as well as three mice of different size. :-)

Kindergarten arts

Yesterday we bought this piece of art Greta made n the kindergarten. It is painting on silk. The money they got for it is for the poor children in other countries.

Summer evening

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This week we suddenly had summer again. It was so nice that a few days ago we even were spontaneously invited to our neighbour's grill party, where Greta had the opportunity to play with a little nice girl, Elise, and to "cut the grass" with a toy lawn mower. Today when I fetched her from the kindergarten they were playing spraying each other with water. It is so warm that it is nice to be in a shadow!
In our garden we picked all the red currants and black currants, while other berries are still green. The rest of the pictures are from today after the kindergarten. We were drawing with the pavement chalks, walking with Winnie the Pooh in our neighbourhood, said hi to our neighbours... Then Santiago came home with flowers for me (tomorrow is our 5 years as a married couple, 6 together), and they were drawing for a while more. We are happy! And it is summer!

GIVE AWAY!

Now you have a chance to win postcards from Melissa Nucera ThisYearsGirl
I have these 5 postcards. Two of you can win. One of you will get "Little Fox Prince" and "Little Mouse Prince" and the other the other three postcards: "The Queen", "Metamorphosis I" and "Metamorphosis IV".

About the postcards (from Melissa's etsy shop):

All cards are professionally Printed on 14pt Card stock with a blank back for writing your own personal message.

We have two Melissa's Little Prince posters at home, in Greta's room.

The only thing to participate in the give away is to, first, click on "Join this site" to follow the blog publicly, and second, to write a comment to this post.
I randomly choose 2 winners on next Monday, July 18th.

Evenings

I plal tennis, and really enjoy it after a long time. Greta is just being sweet and nice girl :-) And then, before going to bed, she tells me to go to bed while she stays a while and paints. So look below how it ends.

Greta is the body art professional now :-)