The question I love to be asked for

"Mommy may I sort up your notions box?"   Yes, along with many more questions, I am pretty often asked about tiding up my notions/knitting boxes by both of my girls. Since they also love to sort out it doesn't have any chance to get messy...

  Of course the next question I hear is: "Mommy may I borrow this button/flower applique/heart pin?" I have no choice except to say "yep, thanks for help".  

The results of learning / Efekty nauki

"The truly grand is this person, who wants to learn something" - Karol Wojtyła. 
(jeśli żle przetłumaczyłam cytat Ojca Świętego, z góry przepraszam).


***"Prawdziwie wielki jest ten człowiek, który chce się czegoś nauczyć" - Karol Wojtyła.
Ten cytat mało widoczny na zdjęciu, widnieje na  samej górze Dyplomu Asi.

...and it desn't matter you are only 8 years old,
if you still want to learn a lot :) 




***...i to, że ma się dopiero 8 lat nie ma wilelkiego znaczenia, jeśli ma się chęć nauczyć jak najwięcej :)

Mommy is so proud of my kids: Adrian is in second grade of Gymnasium, Asia with grand style in third grade and Julia is  in preschool  :) 



***...a mama pęka z dumy: z gimnazjalisty w drugiej klasie, 
z Asi, która w pięknym stylu znalazła się w trzeciej klasie oraz z Julci, która trafia już do zerówki  :)

Time to begin our two months school brake!



***Wakacje pora zacząć!

This one special day

Those braided wreaths are made by mom, sister and me.


Wianuszki uplecione dla Asi przez babcię, ciocię i przeze mnie.








One of them changed the owner during party.


Jeden z nich na przyjęciu zmienił właścicielkę.





Two Julia's as princess in a vintage carriage...


Dwie Julie-księżniczki w powozie...

  and with a very important person in this special day.


i z bohaterką dnia :)





My trio, almost like holy one :)


i moja trójca (prawie jak święta:)).

Easter trio

These buddies seem to enjoy each other company, don't you think so? I'm so busy right now with other projects but those little creatures entered into first place on my crochet/knit shedule.


In the fact that all of my family of five was ill lately it was no mean feat for me but promise to do much much more.


Referring to the wheather outside window, here is a page from my 1'st grade scholler in which she is obligated (and doing it with so much pleasuere, LOL) to observe and paste right wheather conditions every day in a week. And here you go the Saturday and Sunday wheather in SO MANY stamps. On this page it looks lovely, isn't it?

Tomorrow is a big day for my eldest Adrian, he's having 6'th grade excam and have that bad feeling he dosen't care a lot as I used to in his age. But that's good. Nothing is so important during exams like inner peace. Right?

My handy man

If you have wondered what background I used for my latest designs, here it is: a house cupboard made by my handy Peter for girls room.



Girls love it and mostly used for books exhibition, but sometimes mommy use it for her background photos as well :)
As you can see Julia is officially my second model when so brazenly pushes herself in front of camera ;)

Frost.

The winter calendar already started but there's no snow around here yet. There haven't been any serious frost even. I enjoy such situation as a driver because really hate to scrape the car's windows and bed weather conditions in general but as a mom must listen kids complaints about "no snow yet". The weather prediction even says there will be no snow during Christmas! But snow in Christmas time is what I accept.
The day after releasing my frosty Balls & Bows Chain Pattern we saw in the morning nice frost covering all around. So I decided to take Julia for a walk to nearest wood to catch some shots.



Bench in park/wood.


Wood in white frost near my home (nope, I don't live in a village but in a city :))



And Julia enjoyed frosty landscape too.

Three Years Ago...

...in last day of November one little miss Julia was born. I would had write about my dear Julia's birthday earlier but due to problem with my net connection didn't have opportunity to do it.
Well, better late then never :)

Baby Julia was growing WAY TOO FAST (as I think so), becoming our family boundle of love :)

Now she is our family angel too, we can easily find her as a mediator between her two elder siblings when she enters just in the middle of conflict and pushes them away from each other :)

Wishing you ALL THE BEST our baby Julia :)

Seven Years Ago...

...one little miss Asia was born! The 3'rd of October in 2004 was so shiny and warm like now :)

Still remeber that day as it was yesterday when I for the very first time hold my baby girl.

Giving a birth with Asia wasn't easy as it took 11 hours and finally ended with caesarean section to save my and your lives but, oh man, it was so Worth everything!

Now you are one proud first grade with smile attached almost always at your face, counting your six ratings like collector :) Happy Birthday to you my dear Joania!

To have a better view...No2

Report from our vacation continues (even after a long time :))...Warning lots of pics coming!

Visit Zakopane without visiting Gubałówka is impossible, especially if you have kids. There's a place where mountain lovers can enjoy amazing view at Tatra Mountains in front of. If it's only sunny enough you can see some mountains at Slovakian side as well. We got there by beautiful trolley but went down on our own legs. Nice preparation before some walk we expected next day. LOL.

There are many such good restaurants at Zakopane, below is one of them, where I caught up kids eating pizza. Adults (us) preffered there traditional Kwaśnica. In background there was concert played by traditional artists. Trust me that was SO AWESOME to eat and hear real music!

We couldn't decide where to go next day. We already knew that most popular places like Morskie Oko, Giewont and rope trolley at Kasprowy Wierch were so crowded (the queue to Kasprowy Wierch trolley could take us about 6 hours), so decided finnally to hit two mountains: Nosal and Wielki Kopieniec. Our journey started early morning at bus station from where we got to Kużnice. That was the last place where we had any connection with civilazation. LOL
At the entrance to trail we saw nice sign which had informed every tourists that they are just crossing Tatrzańsi Park Narodowy and nice picture of brown bear below!
Well, we've ignored that info but were SO WRONG!

Walking at Nosal is quite short but very steep. At the top of that beautiful mountain there's amazing view at Kasprowy, Giewont, Kużnice, Czerwone Wierchy and even at that trolley. If you clik at photos with Adrian below you can see it riding to Kasprowy!

Belive me or not but I do got acrophobia and agoraphobia and I was so frightened (well my sis too but we supported each other) and when I saw 3 yrs olds climbing this steep top without getting almost nothing help from their parents I finnally got some courage.

Climbing down from Nosal was quite a pleasure until me and Joanna heard something like roar at Nosal creek! And we heard that roar below us at percipice! She suddenly asked me if that was a bear but I answered it probably was cow and realized immediately that no cow could climb at 1000 meters! We asked other members of our expedition and two of them did hear that loud roar too! Then we decided to go faster not to meet this loudy bear face to face!

As we were almost running not meet bear after meeting with woodcutters (I blame them for annoying bear) soon we reached Olczyska Valley.
That was the place where beautiful butterflies had their festival! There were so many of them and didn't flew away from us! One of them (pic below) I almost touched with my camera's lens! LOL.
We had one of ours "pit stops" at amazing gill - water there was clear as a glass and very cold!

Then the most "fun" part of our expedition started! The track to Wielki Kopieniec is so steepy, leads mainly by the stones and is very tiring! We had to take a few "pit stops" there.

After long way and climbing we've reached Kopieniec Glade and were concerned about climbing last meters with steepy zig zag party (pic below) or get around the side.
We've chosen first-most difficult version and don't know whether I was right - just remember my acrophobia and agoraphobia! But Joanna did felt like chamois and was jumping from stone to stone and WAS NOT AFRAID THAT HEIGHT! Belive or not but there were many younger kids then my 6 year old and didn't seem to be afraid and so were their parents too!

Oh, but we were so awarded with an amazing closer view at highest Tatra Peaks! LOVE LOVE LOVE that view from top and finnaly defeated my acrophobia and agoraphobia a bit and infected children with my passion to mountain trekking! Hoping to get to Kasprowy Wierch and Czerwone Wiechy next time. Kids already asking me and hubby when will we get there! LOL
Probably I'll never get the most difficult tracks at Tatra Mountains. To make you realize how difficult mountaineering can be just watch that movie. Nice walking at the most difficult Tatra Mountain - Orla Perć, isn't it? Of course if you have a lot of courage and great condition :) BTW Orla is seen from below pics :)

Ps. przepraszam moich polskich czytelników za post w j. angielskim, niestety brak czasu sprawia, że nie mogę sobie pozwolić na polskie tłumaczenie. Myślę, że i tak więszość z Was zna j. angielski ;)

Someone just started FIRST GRADE!

...and seems to be very happy with it. So does her mummy. The last days have been a bit crazy with buying all things related to school like books, backpack, pencilcase, paints, notebooks, drawing blocks and so on.

Hastily I remembered how things happens when little one starts school. Believe or not but 6'th grade seems to be easy peasy with 1'st! LOL.

Anyway for me as a mom it was a pleasure with buying Asia girly school stash :)

Even if she spend only 3 hours at first school day she is SO SO HAPPY to be there with her georgeous friends from kindergarten :) Not to mention that she didn't have a desk friend problem, two of her close friends asked her to sit with. LOL.

And yes, Julia escorted our 1'st grade girl too...