LAST WEEK

Last week was ... full of moments I left my comfort zone.
Visiting the school my girl will attend, was like surreal, just yesterday we were strolling her around, changing diapers (thank God thats over) and now school?! 6 years can fly by, believe me. Finally feeling so much better I put a skirt on and then, after therapy feeling so bad, so I couldn't meet up with my ig girlfriends in Ljubljana. Yesterday and today by brand mia & mika is at BazArt at Fürst haus in Ptuj. You can visit us also between the tradicional carnaval that will be today, just come and say hi // I am the swan.

LAST WEEK

Last week I was finally, after a very long long time feeling better, feeling a little bit more like myself, again.

I had to celebrate this, so I took myself to my first real sushi restaurant and had a vegan feast.

I just love the roses I got for my son's birthday, looking great still after 6 days.

My mia & mika brand / shop is slowly growing! That makes me so truly happy, I can not describe it. In all this time, I was so sick, that I couldn not even dress myself, I was thinking about this... how I would start, how I would make beautiful little baby moccasins from the best vegetable tanned leather that is toxic and chrome free... and now I making them and they are getting great reviews from my first customers. Thanks to each and single one of you, who believed in me and my moccasins, you know who you are! 

 

For spring I started to make some new colorful models, you can see them soon in my store www.miaandmika.tictail.com but you can also follow me on www.facebook.com/miaandmika.shop &

instagram @miaandmika_shop.

I am still vegan and I will stick to it, because I just feel so much better that it is hard to describe. This is my vegan avocado & sweet pepper sandwich that got me the most likes on instagram last week, funny but really  delicious!

Have a nice Sunday everyone & till my next post I wish you all the best,
love Jelena

WORKING MOM #2 OR 15 TIPS FOR A STRESS FREE SCHEDULE

Good afternoon, I hope you all had a great weekend? Today's post is all about this months topic WORKING MOM and how to manage your WORKING DAYS.  It will be posted a little bit later then usual 5 AM CET, because I was and still am sick. Yes, mom's also get sick, but just occasionally, here and there.

Last week I wrote about, how to reevaluate you time, more you can read here and all about the Working mom topic you can find here.

Having children is the best thing that can happen, but it also becomes an organisational challenge  when the maternity leave is over and especially, if you are a full time working mom or even more, if you are a single parent. My mom was one.

Here are a few of my tips to for an simple and stress free schedule on a working day like today:

1. Download a weather app on you phone, so it will take you just seconds in the morning to check the forecast.

2. Prepare all the children stuff and clothes in the evening, if you have a girl, you can lose a lot of time in the morning finding/feithing about what to wear to kindergarten... she can choose her outfit the night before by herself and then you just check it.

3. Wake up early, it will save you a  lot of stress!!!

4. If the children are a little bit older, from 2 to 3,  they can dress alone.

5. For the breakfast, you can also prepare the table the night before, my children do it by themselves.

6. Find a beauty routine that works for you (and it's fast) ...

7. Organize your closet and shoes, so you will only have things that fit you and you will feel great in them no matter what occasion. You will no longer use time on "What should I wear?", for sure!

8. Prepare your purse for the next day or if you have many bags, just create a storage section, where you put everything out of your bag and then in the morning, when you decide to take another bag, you just put it all in, and nothing is lost or forgotten.

9. Take care of your "transportation" from shoes, bike to a car, it is bad when they leave you half of the way to work...

10. Eat lunch, so you won't come home hungry as a wolf.

11. Don't plan to much activity at the second half of the day, you and your children are already a bit tired, so enjoy you time together, play go outside...

12. Prepare a easy cooked dinner, mostly we cook or make salads for ourselves. 

13. Remember to do the house work with you children, they can help you dust and vacuum clean. Before bed, they should put all the of the toys, that are laying around the house, into their room. 

14. After the little "dragons" are asleep you should take the time for yourself, do or make something that makes you happy, from blogging to reading a book, but don't go to the kitchen and clean!!!

15. Least but not least, go to bed early there is never enough sleep for us.

Hope there was a tip for you, that can help you simplify your everyday. If you have some more tips for me, just share them below, I am really interested.

To all of the Ladies out there, have a great week!

WORKING MOM #1

Today, finding the balance as a full time working mom with small children is almost impossible, or you can get the burn-out syndrome. There is a lot of words written about this subject. So this is my view, my words, how I think and see this challenge.

The first and most important thing is to acknowledge, that a day has only 24 hours, nothing more and nothing less. It is up to us how we will spend them. We need to and we would like to do some things, but how to balance it all out? How? 

My tip, just ask yourself what is important to you, really important, what are the things that matter the most? Make a list of 5 to 6 things, that make your life precious and then find the time for them. It sound simple, but it isn't because, you have to let go all of your semi-goals, expectations that are not so important, you just have to re evaluate how and on what you are spending your time.

Just think about it till next Monday and prioritise!

WORKING MOM

Yes, after a month I can say I am a full time working mom and I love it! The feeling I get after doing a good job and a small pay-check at the end of the month is just amazing. Do not get me wrong, I was at home for almost 4 years, and my kids almost 2,5 and 4 years enjoyed it as I did, but I went for school with and for a reason. I have some goals that I still want to accomplish, so here I am kicking back.

But with all that said, I realized it can be really hard to manage it all in the 24 hours we have. So my plan is, for me and also for you, to write about how to simplify our daily life to get everything done, from a daily routine, house cleaning, cooking, having the time for yourself, what's this? I will make a combination of what I have learned, read and what I found is working for me. Of course all of you are very welcomed to comment and give your tips and strategies of juggling your daily lives on. I will post every monday, so let see how you will like it and find it helpful. Remember, any tip or advice is very welcomed, so just comment below. 

I link up with the wonderful Sonja from Wert-voll, here.