My love, My happiness, My life

I still can not believe that I have been a mother for the second time. Time runs so fast that that it's hard to believe. My first son is three years old, and until recently he was as small as the other. I can not get enough, that I have them. The older son every day suprised me with his talent, and the younger enjoys his presence.

Lucky for me and my husband.

Ps. I hope that I can get back to regular blogging, many posts waiting until I finish them.

Joanna

New traditions of Christmas in my home

Not too often I write about myself, so today, festively, I wrote something about New traditions of Christmas in my home

The origins of Christmas tradition go back to before the time of Christ when many ancient cultures celebrated the changing of the seasons. In ancient Rome, on the Feast of the period associated with the god Saturn, it was a time of celebration and an exchange of gifts. In addition, December 25th coincided with the day of the birth of the sun-god named Phyrgia a culture in the ancient Balkans. This custom has been part of western culture ever since, so in the 4th Century, the Roman Catholic Church  adopted the holiday and tried to convert into a Christian celebration.  Since then the festival has become part of Christian culture, with time for many of us for a family holiday that is most often associated with wonderful memories of childhood.

What is the tradition of Christmas in Poland? You could say that the tradition of Christmas are as numerous as there are families. Certainly in Poland Christmas start on Christmas Eve with a festive dinner. After dinner a lot of families go to church for Christmas Mass, which usually begins at midnight. During this period we give each other gifts which can bring: the child Jesus, Angel, Star,  Santa Claus, or even Grandfather Frost.

What are the traditions of Christmas in my family home? About that, I could write a book. 

Preparations for Christmas began with general housework. Then there is a huge shopping trip, but we do not chase promotions and gifts. We had to buy food at That time from Christmas to New Year. For shopping, we often went out with whole family and we waited in long queues from 5 in the morning in the cold. It was not a bad time, because there were other children there so it was also a fun time.

Preparing the traditional 12 dishes started early in the morning on Christmas Eve. Mostly my mom did it. My father baked cakes, decorated the Christmas tree and my sisters and I helped him. When everything was ready, we waited for the first star on the sky, and next we sat down to the table, and my father started a festive dinner. We had to try all 12 dishes ( (of course, stomach upset guaranteed)), as children we ate it in 10 minutes, because after dinner we got gifts. Sometimes Santa Nicolas brought gifts, or sometimes  the Star brought gifts, depending on whether the first words said my mother or my dad. Our gifts have always been modest, sometimes we were so happy, and sometimes we cried that "stupid Santa N." brought wrong gift.

With my husband, I create my own tradition. We moved our best memories from childhood to our house and we've added something which is just ours. We do not do a huge shopping. We buy a real Christmas tree, which I  decorate much earlier than in my family home. There are a lot of hand-made decorations. I bake gingerbread with my little boy and I cook dumplings- pierogi for my husband, and he cooks the cabbage with mushrooms and other delicacies. I adopted from the Dutch tradition marzipan cake with nuts and raisins, and the English tradition of Christmas Crackers. What else will build our tradition? I'll know in time.

Christmas is one of the most beautiful holidays. It is magical and not forgotten, and we can create tradition ourselves, for us and for our children. Maybe this year we roast the Christmas turkey? I do not know. For sure it will be a wonderful time spent with the family.

new life ♥

Hello Dear,
I wasn't here nearly two months. Much has changed, my energy is slowly coming back. The reason for my absence is growing on me this Little Gentleman. During the first months of my pregnancy I felt very badly and I lacked energy. It gets better. Soon more posts.

Joanna

Mystery of water.

When I was pregnant, I was healthy and very active. I rode a bike almost every day. But there was one thing that did not give me forget that I'm pregnant. 24 hours a day I had nausea, I felt well enough to exist but I had to do something with it. I found a way. I had to be in the water and I sat in the bathtub, or swimming pool. But how much time one can spend in the water? Believe me, a lot of time! Unfortunately, the installation of a mobile pool was rather impossible. I felt like a mermaid which needs water to live, and can breathe on the surface. And so, month after month passed, and I was trying to deal with my nausea.

Nothing happens without a reason. My nausea gave us the idea for the name of our child. Necessarily had to be a name related with water, how could that be otherwise. I left the search for the name to my husband and I spent as much time as possible in the water fighting with my nausea. I had one request to my husband about our son's name. I said:  Remember that the name should be easy to pronounce for me and for our son's grandparents.

Our son was born on the 7^th of March 2012 with Pisces star sign. We gave him the name Kai, which in Hawaiian means Ocean . Each of our visit to the sea ends up on chasing our son, because he runs like crazy towards the water. The Summer in Scotland is 
beautiful and we spend our off days by the sea. Finally, our "water child" can enjoy the sea and he feels there literally like a fish in the water.