Little Steps to just moderate progress

When after having cried and screamed "Mama no!!" for 10 minutes in the pool, your three year old finally masters jumping into your arms from the side of the pool, and smiles, and glances proudly at the baby girls nearby.

When after 2 days of having mental meltdowns and being enormously tired you see that Audit problems finally start to make sense and the scores begin to go up.

When having just recovered off to the whole family cold Marathon you can run your daily 5k again, even with that uneasiness in lungs.

 

When your 15 month old's bottom left molar finally shows and he can sleep through the night without painkillers, and even go through the day without teething tablets, crying in pain and trying to lay his head on your shoulder and whine every time you pick him up.

 

When instead of running away after 3 minutes of listening to you reading a book before bed, your 3 year old reaches out to his shelf, grabs "Buratino" and asks you to read him. And then listens for half a dozen pages.

 

Many little steps. Just keep on taking many little steps until things get better.

 

Found on smb's FB account. Note sure about credits :)

This beautiful sunny morning my native country

has given me  yet another wonderful gift: a six-meter high fence. Simply speaking, Russian PM and ex-president has blocked me on Twitter.
My best guess is that was somehow supposed to teach me a lesson in how to ask a politician uncomfortable questions in public place (social media). Yep.
My best guess #2 is that many people who know me personally would love to be able to mute me in critical moments simply by pushing a button.

Amoung that dozen of books I got on Library book sale for just only $20 (mainly for Chill Sr)

I bought a small hardcover edition of Orwell's Animal Farm and finally got to read it. Sad, predictable, very sad and very predictable. I wonder why we have never hear of it in our Literature classes in school, let alone it being part of the school program. The 90-ies were the perfect time for studying works of this kind in school - things would have probably been different now, had our generation been raised able to be self-conscious, reasonable, critically thinking and analytical.

By the way, I still love book sales and am so happy to see book sales as part of US's culture and events! This time I tripped over Bulgakov, books of beginner's Japanese and Latin (seriously?! When would I have time for all this?), bunch of country travel guides... had to restrain myself and take none of that, of course :)  I still sometimes joke of having had a "hungry childhood" when being pointed at my excessive love for fresh fruit and veggies or some peculiar gastronomic preferences... but I definitely always had books in abundance as a kid - more in our home library than I ever read, - yet here I am :)