Do you know when do you think “green”?

Posted on January 15, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

When you “behave GREEN”

You know I was born as city girl. But thanks to my dad I have spend most of my time in the village with my grandparents which all together teach me respect towards the nature and animals. I will not say that sometimes I did not brake something I was not supposed to but everybody is learning.

And now being in Venezuela I have opportunity to see different group of people. On one hand there are groups which are complaining about the mess which they have around but nobody is willing to take action such as Go and CLEAN the mess you did! I hate that attitude. And really I realized that I can not stand the mess in the nature. I see that many people here are behaving like parasites. They are just taking without giving back and caring. They are destroying nature around themselves by trashing.

I learn since I was little that everything what I am bringing to the nature I have to take with me back. NO POLLUTION IS ALLOWED! And I am really happy of that that most of my nation also respect nature. I also saw myself that I can not be blind towards the mess which other people are doing so rather then bitching about the mess around me I go and take the action. I am not ashamed of bending my beck and CLEAN! And full of this feelings we visited beautiful park with natural river stream and waterfall. I could not stand that some of the people were messy so I cleaned the entrance near the waterfall and I felt really happy that the kids of other parents saw me. And I hope that be showing them the right way they will follow.

Look how beautiful park they have. Little excursion through Parque del Chorros

Keep nature beautiful and clean. By doing it we keep clean also ourselves. The beauty of nature is the mirror of our souls.

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Dancing class for Edie

Posted on January 12, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

There is never too early for dancing lecture

You know. We are simply dancing family. Our life is running in different rhythms. Sometimes it goes very softly but most of the time our speed is killing same as in Dominican or Cuban merengue.

I have to share with you one old story. You will have fun as we had. It is dated already into the year 2008 when I met Carlos. We were having nice time in Estonia (cold country, great place for two warm hearts!) and decided to go for dinner. We entered one pizzeria and ordered food. After we finished and were about to leave Carlos realized that I started to swing in the rhythm of salsa which was played in the radio. He did not hesitate. He took my hand, drag me into the middle of restaurant, with no dance place…….so he made it by moving chairs around us and we started to dance. I felt soooooo shy, I blushed and was a bit shaking but enjoying. Two songs passed and people in restaurant were looking at us also people on the street were stopping and looking through huge glass windows insight of restaurant 🙂 Nobody probably have ever seen that.

And what happened after? We got huge applaus from the restaurant stuff and the manager brought us huge ice cream cup on behalf of the company to enjoy……….sooooo isn’t it great to let your feeling just flow and enjoy your life fully?

Dance with grandma and Edie…….move your hips!

Un poquito of salsa o merengue?

It is such a great if you love music and moving your body. I always wished to have husband which would dance with me and my kids. I hope that we are imprinting into Edie that he can dance whenever and wherever where he feels like to move his body, same as we do with Carlos.

As we say : There is no better way how to teach your kids then through you as Leading Example!

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When time and age does not matter

Posted on January 11, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

You are as old as you feel like

There is something in it, isn’t it? Have you ever think when you woke up in the morning that you have to have at least 100 years because you can feel every single muscle and joint in your body? Ohhhh yeah I did feel like that also. But you know what is good on that?

If you feel that something is hurting you it means that you are still alive!

(Smart words of my grandma).

But over the Christmas I have learned how big influence has your will and mental strength on our overall physical condition and look. I want to show you real living examples from my family. Two “young ladies” which enjoy their lives and do not care about their pains, because they decided to live no matter on their age.……….actually would you guess that mom is more than 60 and aunt over 70?

My mom and aunt from Venezuelan side:

Dancing is the best cure for any pain…..Baila Baila Bailateraphy!

You know I would love to be in their shape in their age. I hope that my strong will and personal persistence will lead me through any danger and weakness and as I work on my life now I will benefit in future too. There is nothing worst than letting things go and do not work on constant improvement. Somebody smart once said that: laziness is mental sickness and I am strongly supporting this opinion.

Do not be lazy be proactive and benefit from your work all life long. There is DO or not to do, there is NO TRY!

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Practical traveler’s toy holder

Posted on January 8, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Tips for travelers

You know me my dear friends that I am box full of ideas. How to do this and that and I am happy for that that my brain is still working and not being lazy. So what I have in my had today is just very fast tip for those who forget to give their kids some merry go round into their car seat or seat in the restaurant and you want to eat calmly and make your baby to play.
Than I believe that most of women are wearing some scarf or shawl so exactly this thing is great for tighting your toys. Please tight one part to your hand or some other space if you have and other part to the chair of your child or somewhere close to him. The final effect is that by one of your hand you are moving scarf which is moving toys and baby is attracted twice. Once by the nonregular movement of your toys and second by toys itself.

And how this simple toy holder look like? Have a look what I mean by 🙂

Isn’t it cute and practical?

You can interact with your child and eat calmly in the same time

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How to find who am I – Time of Self Reflection

Posted on January 6, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 6 Comments

Search in the bottom of my heart

My dear. This post will be more philosophical because in the beginning of the new year it is on the place to elaborate a bit upon the last year.

I have been thinking a lot what have happened in my life and especially in the last year 2009 and there are few milestones which I want to remember and I want to share with you:

1. I graduated my university (19. 2. 2009) with red diploma as Master of Economy, specialization in European Studies

2. I gave a birth to great baby, I became mom of son called Edie. He was born on Monday 23.2.2009 at 13:43 .

3. I got married one of the most wonderful man in the world on 4. 4 2009. Yeah we have to travel a lot to get to know each other. We connected two hearts from two continents and two hemispheres.

4. I started to explore more cyber space. I started my blog http://www.mumteaching.com and also my online English teaching web page.

5. we moved for 6 month to Venezuela. I have opportunity to see Santo Angel (Angel waterfalls), walk in Andes and swim in Care bean sea. My biggest challenge now is to learn Spanish and bring back to Brno a bit of Latino culture. I am also proud that I took my dad to Venezuela with me.

And you know after all this travelling, starting up my new family, leaving my students live and becoming mum without any further preparation. Building my new life with my husband and thinking what will be my next steps I have a wish. I have a wish of finding my true heart. I have realized that after so many changes which happened in very short time in my life i became a bit lost and do not know where exactly is my home, where do I belong to and how should I behave in my new role. Only think what I know is that all the answers are hidden in the bottom of my heart. The only friend which never lyes and tells me the true is my heart. I have also big support in my husband who is good listener and since he is very straight forward he is always happy to help me and open my eyes.

What I wish for the year 2010 is:

to learn how to exercise with kids, I already found the teachers, now I have to just come back to Czech and start the lectures.
learn how to prepare Venezuelan cheeses and bring this knowledge back to Czech Rep and start little business at home
I also want to start little areperia which should fill the empty space on the market of Latin culture.
I would love to continue also with giving lectures of English through internet
And the most important is and still will be care about Edi, my loved son and my inspiration.

Actually I found out that thanks to him I try to improve my forgotten skills. I started to play to different instruments. I was already missing so much my ability of creation of music. I was singing all day longs since he was in my belly but now I try to learn to play guitar, accordion, xylophone and also electrical piano. I love music! I am also thinking of different exercises for him and myself because I am terribly missing sports and I am looking forward the time when I will be able to start teaching him different sports. I also try to draw with him and experiment with paper games :)……………and the most important for me is his smile and laugh.

Now I also know that my men are the true treasure of my heart and I will do first and last to make them happy.

So my biggest learning from all my previous travelling, education, experiences and overall live is: “If you are not sure, if you are lost, if you do not know what to do, if you are sad or happy basically if you have any kind of question ask your heart for the answer”!

Mind is good advisor but if you do not decide from the bottom of your heart all the thinks which you will do in the future will not became part of your life naturally and you will not have sufficient persistence to succeed.

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Houses in Venezuela have not only soul but also name

Posted on January 5, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

What is the name of your house?

Hmmmm this is very nice question. And when my friend ask how is my address in Venezuela because she wanted to send me Christmas postcard I started to sweat. Here to give an address is not that simple as we are used to in Europe or States. In Venezuela you have to refer to the area or city district, to the main road, to the name of the house, to the level in which do you live and to the number of the apartament. And if you manage all of that you are still not 100% sure that the mail will come because local post is not the most efficient one 🙂

So I love the idea that the houses has their names. Always when I am walking around in our area I am reading various names of the buildings and I have such a mysterious feeling. I was wandering why some of the houses has their names such as Amazonia or Andes or Dona Nina and which kind of people are living there. It gives me nice internal feeling that houses over here are not justgiven simple number like in Europe but people in here were thinking in somebody or some place they liked and would love to live in future.

I was thinking which kind of name I would give to my house in the future and I found out that it would be DESTINY because it is a name of the “live” I am living now. Without destiny I would never met my current husband and became mom of my son.

And what would be the name of your house and why? Tell me I will be happy to hear your voice.

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Do you know what is the best present for infant?

Posted on January 4, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

Box with presents

If you think that is difficult to satisfy your baby then you are very mistaken. Specially for infants under the age of one you will make them totally happy if you surround them with lot of boxes which are nicely wrapped into the paper and tight with ribbon. As I saw my darling he was able to have a fun 3 times longer with the unwrapping of the box than with the present itself.

No wonder that there are many parents having hard time before Christmas. They are chasing” The present” for their kids. But really do not make it more difficult for yourself if it can be so simple :). Have fun with your baby rather than more wrinkles on your front head.

And Do you know what is the best present for grandma?

Try to guesssssss 🙂

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my dear readers!

I wish for new year many great comments from your side and I promise that I will bring to your life also nice articles full of learning, fun and personal experience!

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How to stay in good shape after having baby-part 1- biceps

Posted on December 29, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Exercising with our babies

I know how it feels to be young and have a baby. Your belly (and not just belly) grows like hell and instead of 60 cm around your waist you have easily 100 cm as I had and you can have much more 🙂 Simply you feel like elephant. Heavy and funny :)…..Nothing against elephant, they are beautiful!

And who would like to stay after giving birth with belly skin big such as bag for 50Kg potatoes. I think that all of the mums would like to stay fit and beautiful. We like to feel good and in good shape!
That’s why I was thinking what to do to shape my body back even I did not have time to go to gym. I also did not have money to pay expensive sport trainer. And my free time shrunk into 2 times 30 min in the day when my darling fall asleep and than few hours over night. But who would like to be exercising after whole day of running around the kid. Practically nobody can have some energy left if you have baby as I do…………simply hyper active, constantly exploring and moving around the whole flat.

I started to think which exercises I can do within the day to shape myself nicely and let my son to enjoy with me. I practically “used” him instead of weight. My daily training is very interactive and I am happy that my son can enjoy with me.

I hope that my exercises will be inspiration for you and believe me I will keep thinking and posting more exercises which I do with my son.

So because having strong hands is crucial in mums life I am sharing as first few exercises for strengthening your bicipital musculus.

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10 month are here and new things came

Posted on December 26, 2009 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

10 month life story continue

jajajaj the life is game worth to play. And since Edie is very playful and big explorador we have reached through games another month. Within this month happened many things and because every change is worth to remember lets make the notes:

His length and weigth

we have two new teeth – he is although still chewing everything so strongly that sometimes I have to laugh. Look at him how he looks funny with all these things in his mouth 🙂

He is able to chew everything what is possible and sometimes even impossible. He is usually chewing table, his socks, his toes etc. I was afraid that with his first teeth he will start to bite me while feeding. But luckily he knows how to drink without pain for me. So well I am still feeding and I hope that I will hold on still some time.

We had about 2 weeks problem with feeding. He was not willing to eat other things that milk. He was eating just little and I was worried that he will not want to eat any more. But now we found his appetite again. I guess it was because he got fever from grandma. Also because his teeth are growing and it is bothering him.
Edie is crowling very fast now with more or less high stability while standing. He is able to walk around the table, to grab many things which are on the table. So we have to move most of the things out of his reach. He is able to crawl to the place where he hears my voice. And if he does not have people around or I disapear for a moment he start to cry or shout for me. It is enough to call him and he crawl to me.
He is saying clearly mama, meme – which used to use for hunger or thirst, or uncomfortable feelings. He is also reacting very clearly on music. He always get alert when I start to play guitar, xylophone or harmonica. I believe that he will have musical hearing or at least he will love music 🙂 Another words are papa, baba (like babicka = grandma in czech)
Edie start to be very but very much pro mamy. We call it “mammythis” in the way that he is constantly looking for me, for mu hug, if strangers are around he tries to hide in my hug. If he is crying or sleepy I am nearly only person which can him calm down. Which on one hand makes me very tight to him and very non free of leaving home.
Recently he is not sleeping well too. He used to wake up every 1-2 hours. It makes it very demanding at night. We tried the test and Carlos mum tried to sleep in our room instead of us and calm him down when he woke up. We decreased his waking to 2-3 times per night. She also found out during the night waking up that he is very thirsty and needs to take a sip before he falls a sleep again. He was also not feeling me as a “milk bank” and “warm hug” and he slept much better. So I proved that he is very much feeling and sensing mammy.
His mothorical skills improved also. He is able to catch his cup and drink, he is able to place food to his mouth and also to grasp a pen or stick to play a xylophone. He also found his “pie pie” his is touching him a lot especially after bathing when he is fresh and free without diaper.
He is also sharing with me a lot of things. He is waving to people. Our so call papaaaa and cao 🙂 He tries to feed me with his food. He is giving us things and immediately taking them back 🙂
He also had his first barbeque time and had fun with our friends 🙂

Now a bit of pictures and movies from Eides life 🙂