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The Best Dish When the Weather Is Hot: the Recipe of Beetroot Soup

July 26, 2010 in Feeding, Life with Kids is Easy, Time for Everything, Tip of the Day | No comments

Tip of the Day

When we were traveling in the south of Russia it was hot there but not as hot as in the central part of Russia. But even then the beetroot soup was the best decision for lunch. Our southern acquaintances shared the recipe of it with us. And today it’s been this dish that we’ve prepared for lunch (mu hubby eat two plates of soup and was so much full that the rest of the dinner we should have left for dinner).

The recipe of beetroot soup. The best dish weather weather is hot!

Ingredients and preparation

Dice:

  • 3 boiled potatoes,
  • 3 boiled eggs,
  • 2 fresh cucumbers
  • some ham

Cut: Read the rest of this entry »

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“Parents’ Ideas” participate in a competition

June 10, 2010 in Life with Kids is Easy, Mummy's Time, Time for Everything | No comments

Internet Community “Mothers’ Blogs” has launched its first competition. And notwithstanding the fact that officially we are on holiday, we could not but take part in it! The terms of the competition are the following: “interesting mummies’ talks in which you participate or hear on the children’s playground, some not quite ordinary situations that you are living each day”. The prizes for the competition are given by “A Store for a Mother and Her Little One” and Maria Klimova, the author of the book “Talks in a Sandpit, ot Stories from Mothers’ Life”.

And here is our story for the competition:

The first recollections after the child’s birth are always very sweet and memorable: in two hours after Soniya’s birth (though then we did not know that it would be Soniya :) ) my husband came to the hospital and brought us a huge bouquet of orange roses, the first night with a baby (who is not within but beside you!) – I am afraid to fall asleep as what if the child will want to eat, in the afternoon I am keeping our little one under the sun rays falling through the window – a treatment for inogenous jaundice, I am a bit worried but I know that everything will be fine…

child’s birth

There was something else.

Among 1-, 2-, 3-bed wards, I chose the one for two people: there is always someone to ask for help and advice if needed. Unfortunately, my roommate was Read the rest of this entry »

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What to Give Children Who Do Not Have Mothers?

April 11, 2010 in Creative Work, Interviews and tutorials, Life with Kids is Easy, Mummy's Time, Personal Growth, Time for Everything | 2 comments

One of our friends knowing that we often make some art and crafts with our toddlers told us about her friend who, taking care of her recently born daughter, also finds time and strength to visit a children’s home and hold craft classes there. We were impressed! And, of course, we decided to get acquainted with Elena, a young mother from Moscow, Russia.

Elena, volunteers, visits to a children’s home

Parent’s Ideas: Elena, how did the idea to teach crafts to kids in the children’s home occur to you taking into consideration the fact that your daughter was very very little?

Elena: Eleven months ago our daughter Kira arrived at our family. This event meant the beginning of a new life for us, the life full of incredible love, enormous responsibility and many beautiful moments. Taking care of our child I was thinking about the children who do not have mothers. My heart ached: my child is lying beside me, it is warm and comfortable for her and somewhere there are children who are alone and they suffer without their mums. First I tried to ignore these thoughts but they did not want to go away. And one evening, having put the baby to bed, I started looking for the information (in the Internet) how one can help children living in children’s home. I consider it to be a miracle that in just a couple of minutes Read the rest of this entry »

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Russian Cuisine: Vareniki

March 17, 2010 in Mummy's Time, Time for Everything | 3 comments

Russians love making and eating vareniki – a kind of stuffed dumplings. When vareniki are being made collectively (by friends or members of the family, especially together with kids), it is so much fun to make and eat them!

Vareniki. Recipe

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Play Drawing with Children, or Escher in a Children’s Manner

December 21, 2009 in Developing, Entertaining, Life with Kids is Easy, Time for Everything, Tip of the Day | 1 comment

Tip of the Day

The creation of something new takes place thanks not to the intellect but to a play instinct based on inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects which it likes.

Carl Jung

Children are little magicians. Just by their presence, they make impossible possible. For example, absolutely any adult is able to make a toy from nothing in the presence of a little child, and during a couple of seconds!

Look how we played today:

education games for children

We’d got only animals and nothing else. And then everything appeared. You create whatever you want, you go wherever you want. The limitlessness of opportunities makes you stunned!

Wherever we find ourselves: in a hospital, in some transport, in any situation of waiting – in a moment you can create a small world on a piece of paper. And no boredom, no kilos of toys taken with you. Here is the magic – the magic to be (near) a child.

Being a designer, Read the rest of this entry »

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Recipes from Cottage-Cheese. A Very Tasty Curd Tart. Russian Cuisine.

December 7, 2009 in Mummy's Time, Time for Everything

For the last children’s art group which gathered at our place I made a tasty curd tart (before I had tried several other recipes but finally chose this one). This time I made this curd tart for the first time after our daughter was born (she is 19 mo now). No, the preparation of this curd tart does not take much time. You just want to cook it for very special occasions :) I remember I made such a curd tart for the doctor who was examining me (together with our little one sitting in my belly) during my last months of pregnancy – I really wanted to make something pleasant for the doctor, so good she was! The curd tart was a great success!

Recipes from Cottage-Cheese. A Very Tasty Curd Tart. Russian Cuisine

The recipe of the curd tart

Ingredients

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Easy Recipes. A Tasty Cake for Adults and Kids

November 14, 2009 in Mummy's Time, Time for Everything | No comments

When I took the decision to start a children’s art-group, I also decided that I would try to cook dishes for the dinner which follows the art part of the meeting myself and not to buy ready-made things in the store. And all the dishes which are on the table, should be appropriate both for little kids and adults (no chocolate, for example, which our toddler hasn’t even tasted so far).

So, at our first creative meeting we enjoyed mashed potatoes with chicken, tomatoes, vegetable marrow paste and three different cakes.

Today, I am going to share the recipe of one of these cakes with you.

tasty pie.recipe

 

The Recipe of a Delicious Cake

Ingredients:

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What to Treat the Guests to? A Pie with Fruit-paste. Recipe

November 3, 2009 in Mummy's Time, Time for Everything | No comments

Would you like to treat your guests to something not very ordinary? Why not bake a pie with… fruit-paste stuffing (based on fruit-paste sweets) for them?! A wonderful dessert for a Christmas table or a birthday party.

Friday. 4:40 pm. 50 minutes are left till the guests arrive. “We-ell… I have to dress myself and our daughter nicely (the latter can take, let’s say, many minutes). But I still have time to make a pie!”

a pie with fruit-paste stuffing. recipe

To be frank, I started making this pie in the morning – as far as the dough is concerned. And now I had to put everything on a baking tray and place it into the oven for some 30 minutes.

Our good friend Gulya, a dentist, Read the rest of this entry »

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How to Help the Child (Husband/Wife :) ) Get Rid of His Gloomy Mood?

October 23, 2009 in Life with Kids is Easy, Mummy's Time, Personal Growth, Time for Everything | No comments

I think we have found a perfect way both to improve our state when we feel tired or gloomy and the state of our little daughter when she starts misbehaving or crying.

It was in Sahaja Yoga that I first learn about the beneficial influence on the organism of baths for feet . Negative energies that we could “pick up” during the day go into the basin with water and salt. Peace sets within, negative thoughts and emotions leave us, sleep improves. And imagine how surprised I was when I found out that doctors also recommend keeping our feet in the water of comfortable temperature where some sea salt is added. Moreover, they advise to do it both for adults and kids.

footsoaking

Last month, the doctor who came to make a professional massage to our toddler told us something about footosoaking. Our little girl (17 mo) keeps her feet in the basin with water and salt two times a day since she turned 1 year old. She does it at the same time with us (in the morning and evening). The masseur explained to us the benefit of this activity from medical point of view:

  • the nervous system relaxes – the child becomes more peaceful;
  • the salt clears the body of chemical waste drawing it out from the organism through pores.

In fact, if our daughter is in a gloomy mood it is just enough to do the footsoaking together with her for her state to improve for the better.

And today the neurologist who we attended on a routine basis prescribed our little girl the same method for strengthening her legs. When I asked the doctor what the benefits salty water are, she answered that Read the rest of this entry »

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The Recipe of a Tasty Breakfast

October 2, 2009 in Mummy's Time, Time for Everything | No comments

Tip of the Day

To tell you the truth when I was getting married I was not good at cooking. Well, my pancakes with stuffings were really delicious but it was the only dish in my menu. Then I learnt some recipes from my mum and friends. My hubby also taught me to make some tasty meals. I remembered about his brand-name dishes now when there are lots of autumn vegetables and fruits in the gardens and our one-year-old started refusing from these very vegetables if they are cooked without anything else.

Millet with vegetables and berries. Recipe

millet with vegetables and berries. Recipe

Boil about a glass of millet adding a bit of salt into the pan. Warm up butter in a frying pan with high sides. Put peeled and diced carrots (2 medium-sized) and then pumpkin (about ¼ of a whole pumpkin) into the frying pan. Stew them without water under the lid. When the carrots and pumpkin have become soft, add the boiled millet into the frying pan. The dish is ready!

porridges. recipe

And now attention! It was the easiest variant of the dish. In our family, we make it a bit tastier. The real savour to it can be added by: Read the rest of this entry »

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