Snow
Snow has arrived - no not that GoT (Game of Thrones) Snow, but the real deal. I absolutely love it! Everything gets bright and light, instead of that unbearable darkness up here. Today, even the sun was out, so it was just beautiful and crisp outside. I like the sound when you walk on fresh snow - that crunch. Our pram works fine in the snow. I can really recommend an Urban Jungle Mountainbuggy, if you love walking on forest paths, snow or grass. The only negative thing are the hills - or shall we call them what they are?? MOUNTAINS! on my way back from town through the forest. Imagine trying to push 16 kg of baby and 2-5 kg of pram through 10-15 cm of snow up a steep hill. Let's say I stopped halfway to enjoy the nature around us and honestly wondering why I was wearing a warm jacket and hat. What were we doing in town anyway? We had been to parenting class. Today we learned everything on child safety and securing your home. I have some plans on securing some areas and putting sharp knives in the top drawer, but as we already have kids and dogs at home, we automatically check on things lying around and eliminating them. Need to get the message through regarding Lego parts to our 5 year old. He has a habit of bringing things downstairs into the living room and not taking them up again.
The girls have been eating well! Quite a lot of porridge and their new favourite thing after carrots, is prune, pear and apple purée. We tested today and it went down nicely! Alice fell asleep in my lap yesterday, while I was feeding her with porridge. I suddenly heard some snoring! Haha!
Anyway, back to parenting class. My girls are still the biggest babies. Proud. And the cutest. Proud. And the ones behaving well, until it is time to leave and they get hungry. Proud. Always proud. My babies are the best. Always! We even went to the supermarket on our way home. Without crying or other outbursts. They came afterwards, but we were in the forest and no one heard us. Haha! So it didn't happen.
Back to class: I don't seem to get to my story today. Always thinking of other things. There was one new mum taking part, whom I hadn't met before and she was clearly interested in those two twinning babies, smiling at her. So we started talking after class and all the other mums were also listening, while I told her about what had happened to Clara. She was really upset and got angry on our behalf. The other mums started talking and everyone was sharing their personal story, like for example one mum talking about her miscarriage of twins and loosing them 5 months pregnant and of course of her fears when she was expecting the boy she attended class with. Another mum (the toughest one in my opinion) had tears in her eyes and although she didn't say it out, we all felt there was a loss there too. It felt good to talk to them. Sharing our thoughts and feelings on this too. Although the parenting class is filled with so much positivity otherwise, it felt like the right moment to share these issues too. I feel the importance of not hiding it, after all, I could have just answered the question that interested mum asked (if they were identical) with a 'we don't think so, but we sometimes see hints of it'. And case closed. But not to talk about Clara is for me like not acknowledging her and not giving her the space she ought to have. And if I can get others to talk freely about something that hurts, but needs to get out sometimes, I feel like I did right.
What else is new? The USA has elected a new president. Can't say I am surprised with the result. Good thing this isn't a political blog (yet), so I won't rant and you needn't read it.
I will close with some pictures of my girls instead. They've grown!! And we finally got the chairs we bought too! Feeding will get a lot easier now.
