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New Year in Different Countries, or How to Remind Children about the Significance of Gifts

January 11, 2010 in Developing, Entertaining, Life with Kids is Easy | No comments

The Fifth Meeting of the Children’s Art-group

The first (in 2010) meeting of the children’s art-group has already taken place. And it is notwithstanding the fact that both the road to our house and the neighbouring streets were covered with 20-centimetre snow which had fallen at night.

The New Year unexpectedly brought us some new elements into our art meetings. Now not only mums/grandmas and their children come to us but also dads. And, secondly, one more boy, Svet (2,5) finally joined us.

We started our meeting with a story about how the New Year’s Eve is celebrated in different countries, how Father Frost/Santa Claus comes to all the children on our planet though he may be called differently and be accompanied by different personalities. Here you can download an illustrated story about the New Year in different counties prepared for children: from Santa Claus and Per Noel to Queen Lucia and Goddess Laxmi.

Santa Claus. New Year in Different Countries

An important quality which unites all the characters in the story about the New Year is the desire to give presents, tasty things and joy to people. We also decided to prepare something sweet to present others with it – this time we were making pastry for gingerbread.

How to Remind Children about the Significance of Gifts. The Fifth Meeting of the Children’s Art-group

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Christmas Gifts: Christmas Balls Made by Children, or the Fourth Meeting of the Children’s Art-group

December 25, 2009 in Developing, Entertaining, Life with Kids is Easy | 1 comment

Merry Christmas, our dear readers!

Last Sunday meeting of the children’s art-group was devoted to Christmas.

By the way, we have prepared for you an illustrated story about Jesus Christ’s birth for children which you can download here or in the section of this blog “Material for Kids”.

Last Sunday, there were 4 children at the art meeting. First, we sang songs. Due to it, the children’s attention was established (as well as the atmosphere of our today’s meeting). Then a little theoretical and practical episode followed: I asked the kids how one can make other people happy?… The children were smiling but keeping silence. When finally the voice of an adult was heard, “You can give someone a present”, I took a bag where each child found a parcel with toy cats and dogs :) . I wanted to show the children not only the theory how one should act but also its practical use (and also to illustrate the idea that presents can be given not only for something but also at any time without any special reason :) ).

children’s art-group meeting

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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.

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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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How to Cook with a Crawling Baby?

June 24, 2009 in Entertaining, Life with Kids is Easy, Lifehack in Everyday Life, Mummy's Time, Time for Everything | No comments

Elena:

Our daughter was lying on a playing mat after she had turned several weeks old and then – on the floor with toys. But it is warm here and there is a carpet on the floor. I also have special places for her. For example, a basket with magazines and shelves with her toys.

And we’ve got lots of “devices” at home where I can place her: a vibrating baby’s chair, a swing, a special baby’s town where she stands, a chair for babies, etc. So, she is quite OK being alone.

life with a baby

Nadya:

So, about the entertainment when the cooking mummy has to handle two babies one of which is crawling. We’ve got lots of stuff on the lower shelves in the kitchen: pans, boxes with baby food and juices, new sponges for dishwashing, plastic bags, etc. All the children love to “set everything in order”. Makar throws everything onto the floor or puts some things on other shelves, collects the sponges into heaps. In a word, one may think he is studying to count and learning the colours. Just a joke :) And it takes much less time for the mummy to put everything in its place afterwards than for the baby to “sort everything out”.

You can also put the little one into the baby’s chair and give some biscuits and then to sweep the floor… You may give him a pan and spoons and show how to bang the latter on the pan or how to put the spoons into the pan and then to take them out… If the situation is really difficult you can even give your baby a bundle of napkins (and to say farewell to them :) ). Or you may switch on some active music and cook dancing and during some time even a not-walking baby will either be impressed or start dancing himself… you can also take some toys away for 2-3 months and then suddenly give them to the baby – they will be like new ones for him. But I try to cook while Makar is sleeping…

life with a baby

When moving from one place to another, mothers-anteaters carry their little ones on their back.

Natalie:

When Arseny was in his crawling period, he was sitting in his chair while I was cooking. If he was tired of waiting and I still needed to eat something, Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 5 Recipes of Chicken for the Family and Guests

June 10, 2009 in Mummy's Time | No comments

When the weather becomes hot, one wants lightness in everything, including the food. Chicken plays an important role both in home and festive menu. Today, we offer you 5 marvelous recipes of  chicken, which we and our friends have tried.

In all the recipes, the chicken should be skinned before its preparation – it makes the chicken tender and not fat.

Chicken with Apples in Sour Cream – an exclusive recipe from Natalie (which was created spontaneously during the celebration of her son’s first birthday).

You will need:

Chicken breasts – 2
Apples (not very sweet) – 2
Onion – 1
Sour cream – half a glass
Salt, pepper, nutmeg, lemon, some greenery like dill or parsley (dried or fresh)

Brown the onion, add peeled apples chopped in cubes (sprinkle them with lemon juice for the apples not to get darker), fry them till they become soft. Put the apples aside. In the same frying pan fry the sliced chicken fillet on all sides (for some 5 mins). Natalie fried everything using butter (she hadn’t got oil at that time) and the taste became even better. Then mix the apples and chicken; salt and pepper them; add nutmeg (a little bit) and add hot water and sour cream. Stew for 10 minutes. Add the greenery and the grated rind of the lemon half. Take away the dish from fire. That’s it. You can serve it with rice. Everybody enjoyed the meal greatly!

Chicken in Georgian Style

This chicken for Sonya’s first birthday was cooked by Anastasia for guests. “Once on Saturday I was watching TV where there was a program on cooking. I was giving our daughter her breakfast at that time. Everything was explained in such detail in the program that one, first, could not resist the temptation to want to make it and, second, everything was so easily cooked that it was not difficult to remember the recipe. And when can a new mother  try the recipes if not when expecting guests?!”

chicken in Georgian style

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Breakfast Which Is Always Ready or How a New Mummy Can Manage to Have Breakfast

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

That’s it – always ready! As both the mother who has a little baby and the mother who is “packing” her child for school and hurrying to work do not have time for cutting, boiling and frying! But malnutrition, as we all know, is not good for our health.

Breakfast which is always ready

Natalie and I have worked out a list of products (with no semi-finished products!), which can provide a good breakfast being used together or separately:

* Oatmeal. Natalie’s method: put rolled oats into the dish, cover it with boiling water and eat the dish in 3 minutes. Anastasia’s method: put rolled oats into the dish, cover it with cold water, put the dish into the steam cooker together with the vegetables for the baby, add raisins and eat. The method of Anastasia’s husband: put the oats into the dish, add cold water, put the dish into the micro-wave and add mashed banana – then you can eat it.

* Boiled buckwheat. Anastasia’s method: put buckwheat into the saucepan, add cold water, leave it on fire for 10 minutes. Natalie’s method: Read the rest of this entry »

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