Tiny Expats blog, vlog and all social media pages now have a new logo and illustrations! Happy happy :) I’d like to thank Anna Bondarenko (here’s her portfolio page) for such a cute and cuddl...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/16/new-design-for-tiny-expats/
After the horrible events in Paris on Friday the 13th, my Facebook feed is buzzing with heated discussions mixed up with heart felt posts. We are grieving for people, who died in Paris attacks, b...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/15/media-directed-compassion/
As it’s Tiny Expats blog’s 1st year anniversary, I thought, I could round up expat experiences of the tiny expats themselves – put together some highlights of our daughters’ journey. They...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/04/5-events-in-5-countries-our-tiny-expats-called-home/
Today is our 9th wedding anniversary. Our 1st 9th wedding anniversary, that is. Our 2nd 9th wedding anniversary will be in February next year. Here’s what happened. A Ukrainian and a Russian, l...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/03/our-wedding-part-1-moscow/
Tiny Expats blog is 1 year old – still tiny, but steadily growing :) Here’s a round up of what I did here during the 1st year of blogging and plans for the future: When I originally started w...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/01/tiny-expats-1st-year-anniversary/
I haven’t thought of it before, but it’s actually a lot of fun, trying to make a vlog with my kids! As I wrote already, my 6 year old decided that she wants to make a video blog, recording ou...
Have you ever noticed that quite a lot of wonderful things happen to us spontaneously without previous planning or even thinking of such a possibility? Last week or so was filled with such unexp...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/10/08/chain-of-spontaneous-events/
It’s been two months already that I’m on my own with the kids in CZ. It’s been definitely an endurance test for me as a mother and as a woman. Two little kids and not a husband or a grandma...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/10/07/little-things-that-count-when-youre-a-mother/
Some of you have already experienced it. You have an angel. A baby that is sweet and cuddly and smiley and all those other adorable things. ‘I can do this, I’ve got this parenting under contr...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/09/28/joys-of-living-with-a-2-year-old/
Usually, I would write more about travelling or expat life on my blog, but this is my take on parenting and striving to be ‘the perfect mother’. On another hand, I’m not straying too far aw...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/09/10/about-being-the-perfect-mother-or-why-i-love-helen-fielding/
After 15 years as an expat, I can honestly say that I’m pretty fine with change. We had our problems, but now we became close friends, who occasionally argue, but always find a way to sort thin...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/06/17/our-way-of-dealing-with-a-dreadful-waiting-period/
Happy Easter to anyone celebrating it today! Traditionally, people greet each other by saying ‘Christ is Risen!” with another person answering ‘Truly, He is Risen!” Celebrating the resurr...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/04/12/its-orthodox-easter-today-christ-is-risen/
First of all, happy Easter to all of you, who celebrate it today! :) It’s a long weekend here in Czech Republic and the city is very quiet, people taking it easy, staying at home with their fam...
It’s not like I cannot live without Internet – on many occasions have I effortlessly survived without it, mainly on holidays or weekends away, but I was always morally prepared to it beforeha...
Here’s a photo I chose to reflect Photo101’s theme Scale: In comparison to my hand, hers is tiny, but quite often my daughters act as a scale for judging things much more important than size....
There’re several points I’d like you to consider before actually reading the story: 1. I did not go to a kindergarten myself. Well, my parents did try to send me there, but after just a few d...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/03/16/kindergarten-stick-with-it-or-let-it-go/
Today I received photos from my parents in Shanghai, Lujiazui Park in Pudong. They often send me snaps of what they see around, I do the same. It helps us to feel more connected, I guess. Faceboo...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/03/06/spring-greetings-from-shanghai/
I’d like to thank Ann, for hosting me as a guest blogger. I can relate to what she writes on her blog – we also have kids, who are growing up away from their home country. Ann asked me to wri...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/02/24/where-are-my-childrens-roots/
I took this name from a Russian movie, which is set during the time of the Civil war between the Reds and the Whites in 1917, because I think it really expresses the essence of the subject I am g...
https://tinyexpats.com/2015/02/07/at-home-among-strangers-a-stranger-among-his-own/