English speaking mums from anywhere in the world 🙂
Okaaaay ladies, here we go! 🙂
the first one is crocheted and the pink one with earflaps too, the rest is knitted
im gonna have to look again tmrw. get some inspiration.. i like those little shoes ;) good work
@johnie words can be tricky 😀
but what i was asking is,that if the child needs to be certain age to be able to go to state nursery.3 yrs for example or if younger kids can get in as well. because if there is a age line,then mothers of younger kids have no ther choice than to pay for a private nursery 😒 and if mother is forced by her employer to ger back to wokr after maternity leave,otherwise she will loose her job,what other choice she has?this is what i cant understand and i would never be able to do that .im loving every single minute at home with my son and just image of him going to kindergarten makes me sad.im different than most other women out there.i love to be a mother and wife FULL TIME 😀 i would love to stay at home and take good care of my kids and hubby in the future.my friends think im crazy,they need to have their own work world,friends ...i dont . i have as many friends as i need and i dont feel like i need to have a good job and have my own income...people cant really understant that,but thats how i feel 🙂
btw u should show sofi some dolls in blue dresses,she might change her mind about blue uniform 🙂
Hi girls , may I join you? My name is Zuzana and I've been living in UK for 5 years now. I'm on maternity leave at the moment but soon will be back at work. Unfornately 😠 This is pretty weird, 😀 I can practise my speaking here in UKand my writting with you guys on slovak forum 😀 😀 😀 (I'm not sure if it's forum or phorum ? 🙄 , never mind you'll understand 😅
you gotta be kidding! hope you are not all native slovaks! 😲
Hi folks. I'm crazy mother of three little kids, I live overseas, speak English much more than Slovak. And I know Hajanka🙂. By the way, how do you speak with your kids and what age are they? Are you girls happy were do you live or you would rather move back home for good?
@briketa Hi 😉 To be honest we still didn't decide if we move back to Slovakia or stay here. I think, that I'll never ever call Uk my home, because I share the same opinion like bobocka 😖 I don't want to raise my child here 😔 My town, where I live,is not very safe place ,especially if you are foreign. Maybe we should move somewhere else 😀 Anyway, if we decide to stay I would like to speak with my child in Slovak, I don't want to have the same problem like my friend. When his child was born,they decided to speak only in English at home and now she doesn't want to say any word in Slovak and there is no way how they force her to speak in Slovak 😕
@briketa hi nice to see you here! 😀
I always talked to my son in Slovak, especially at home. But as much as his practice improved, he wanted to speak just in English, sometimes it was like I was asking in Slovak and he answered in English, or he asked in English and I still answered in Slovak. Funny 😀 but outside we usually talked in English, in shopping stores, in front of our friends (english friends), in school, by doctor...
@zzuzana82 I came to the point when I moved back home back to Slovakia, but the happiness lasted for about month, then the reality came. Now I wish I'd never make this decision! We are 2y back and I still don't have a job.
It's different when you really believe you don't want to live there and you can't call it home... it was for me. Two or three weeks of holiday in Slovakia twice a year was enough for me to remember why I live in UK 🙂
Now I know it wasn't the best decision for me (for us). I know you live in Manchester. We lived in smaller town (even thought I still missed London and big city traffic) maybe that's way... but on the other side, it doesn't matter where you live, when you have all what you need - family, friends.... loving people, someone who cares...
Hi there, may I join you??? I live in UK for 8 years now and as wierd as it sound this is my home. I met my hubby (btw slovak) here and had my son, who is 2,5 now and any day now we should welcome our daughter. We live in small town about 1hr from London, witch is great cos I think it is safer here. I stayed on maternity leave 1 year and after that I worked as bank staff (they call me if they need me, and if I'm free I go). After another year doing that, we decide to put Maxim to childminder and he loved it. It is only 2 day a week for 4 hrs, so he can socialize on his own and I have some grown up time for me.
Since I stayed at home, my english went down hill, so find out this forum was great!!!!
Hope you all have a good day and can't wait to talk to you. 🙂
@zuzkag2 welcome in discussin, it s greta you use english in company cause yu can practise it every day and you do not forget evth, I am on maternity leave now and I almost forgot everthing, you know if you don t speak english every day, you forget a lot of vocabulary and mainly speaking, that is important for communication
@mihouk Welcome 🙂 .it is great for us that live in SK to communicate with people as you cause you are still in touch with native speakers, and you can help us, so once again welcome.
It s great you live in UK you can practise English every day, and when do you expect your next baby, so you must be exhausted now, when you have to look after your little boy and expecting next child, and are you happy in UK, I think that it is great when you go to work and you are not all the time at home with your baby because you are with people and not only all day with your lovely boy, cause you know it is sometimes exhausting when he asks you something etc..., I was in UK 9 years ago as an au pair and I really loved it there and my husband was working in London so I thought that we will live there and we will bring up our children in UK, I only wanted to stay there 5 years till our son goes to primary school and speaks English prperly, but then my husband found a job in Norway, so everything changed, but I am trying to teach basic vocabulary my kids, but I know that it is different than living in England, but may be one day we will go there and kids learn English properly,and what about your son does he speak English and Slovak or only one language adn do you want to come back to Slovakia and where do you live in Slovakia.
@hajanka I feel the same like you said, two weeks at home are enough for me 😀 we have already our own lives, so I feel like on the visit not like at home, if you know what I mean. 😉 The problem is, that I can image that we would stay here, but not in this town. There are lots of foreigns , not only slovak,polish,czech,lithuanian, hungarian,but especiallly people from pakistan,bangladesh and from africa.Native are so fed up with this multicultural society, that they do not hesitate caling you f...g bitch on the street, if they hear foreign language or attack you,they dont mind if you are a child or woman. In my work ,the processleader told us that we should stop talking our f...g language,and I can tell you many many more examples. ☹ And the other thing we have been burgled 3times already. So this is not really safe place to live. I dont want to say that whole britain is like this, I have lots of english friends,who are really really nice people.,but........I really dont know want to do and that's the biggest problem 🙄 stay or go back to SK.....
@hajanka Welcome
I know what you are speaking about, living in UK and coming back to SK is very difficult, it is shock,youl lived some time abroad and you found friends there and yu used to everything there and now coming back to Slovakia you find out that you do not know anyone cause everything has changed and also everything is different.
Some time ago I lived in UK and I really loved it and I thought that one day I will be living there and bringning up children, man wants and God does not I can not express it in English but I hope you understand.
And as wrote Im totally losing in practise my English, because I do not use this language every day, so I am happy that here s the forum and we can practise oour English. And did you mve to SLovakia forevere now or are you going to come back to UK<
@bonaquaba I'm expecting Tili any day now, I'm so fed up to be so fat and helpless, I still have 1 week till due day, but hopping to go early. I'm giving her time till Tuesday, then I'll become cross, 9 months is long enough, she can do a favour for her mummy 😀
We where thinking to go back to SK, when Maxim will go to school, but I think this is his home now. It is fine to be home for while, but as soon we in SK, we miss UK. Maxim has got more opportunities here, I know the school system is different, but slovakian isn't great either. We found good catholic school here, so hope they will take him there. We talk to him only Slovak, but as he is watching TV and goes to childminder, we found out he speak more English than Slovak. Understand both, but english is very easy lenguage to talk for kids, much softer.
I know some people can be quite horrible like @zzuzana82 says, but I think you can find bad people everywhere. It happened to me few times in Tesco, I was talking in Sovak, so the counter lady show my display how much to pay, did not tell anything, just point her finger on it, it is not me who doesn't speak second lenguage is it? English peope are like that, they live in their boxes and don't want to explore what is on the other side of it.
My hubby wants to move back at some point, but at the moment we have no jobs equal to current ones in SK and it will be a life struggle to be there. Maybe when we grow old, we move back, but then I want to go somewhere hot like Italy or Croatia to warm up my odl bones. 😀 I'm not very Slovak orientated 😝
@mihouk So good luck to giving birth your baby, I know it is too much long time 9 months and the last weeks you want to have it over cause you can not move can not sleep only thinking on your little baby going out,
I understand your home is in UK because you ive there loong time and also your son has made some friends as well as he used to live there, and I like your expression hubby is it husband?
@bonaquaba Yes hubby is husband 🙂
Birth should be fine (as I planned in my head), in our hospital opened new wing, led by midwifes only. It is so nice, new, with pool and birthing chairs, little kitchen for drinks, MP3 players... and you stay there only 4-6hrs after birth witch is perfect for me, cos I stayed in hospital with Maxim only 6 hrs. Hope everything will go smoothly and I'll be home very soon, with my little one. Can't wait to be over, but don't looking forward to that pain again, but this is our last baby so have to enjoy it, in strange way... 😝
@mihouk you're right , bad people are everywhere, but it's sad how they treat you only because you're foreign 😒
anyway to tell the truth I prefer to stay here,because the life here would be much more better and much more easier in many ways. Our plan was to return to SK this year, but at the moment , as yous said, it's pointless , no work at home, so it will be struggle. We are looking for new house in better area,so hopefully it would be bettter year for us 😉
good luck with your birth 🙂
@zzuzana82 Somebody once told me, people who talks three lenguages are trilingual, two lenguages are bilingual and one lenguage are English... says it all. In small town it is a bit better, but you can not avoid it completly. At work sometimes, were looking at me, like I'm from another planet when I did not know some tradicional stuff and I always used to tell them Do I look like an English??? Did not like it, but got used to it 😝
Are you looking for new house in Manchester or out side city?? Rent or buy, because looks like you going to stay longer like we are. We used to rent, but since Maxim arrived, we bought house and mortgage is nearly same as our rent, so it is fine and finally we could paint the walls as we like it 😀
@zzuzana82 I couldn't speak Slovak in work too, actually I was the only one Slovak there 🙂 we had some Polish people, Bulgarian, some from Philipines.... but most of them were English, we all had to speak to each other just in English (and to clients as well, of course) and that's a good thing. If I wasn't forced to speak in work I wouldn't be speaking at all 🙂 I think it would be great idea to move, find a better place to live. There is no chance to live better in SR and we all know that, don't we?
@bonaquaba I'm losing practice too, it's sad... it's hard when you can't talk to someone. As I said I would love to go back one day. It's very difficult right now, Adrian visits the school for intellectually gifted children and I'm happy that he finally made some friends, his classmates (it was hard from beginning because he didn't want to go back to SR). If it was only up to me I'd be back long time ago... 🙂 I don't want to hurt him.
How about you? Don't you wanna go back one day?
I have to say, I`m the happiest where I am. I would not move back to SVK by free choice, ever.
We live in little paradise, private happy life in the middle of nature. I hear an owl during the night. Sitting on Eucalyptus tree by our house, I hear it directly laying on my bed, its a balm for your ears. Very relaxing. In the night hauling coyotes communicate between each other and the sound is mixed with the sound of sea lions, living in the ocean near us.
I have wonderful neighbors and friends. We are lucky to have citrus trees, figs and avocados on the property, enjoy wild flowers and birds like falcons and sometimes eagles hunting for mice. We make fresh yoghurt with the kids and go ocean fishing in the evenings. Kids can play naked outside without supervision. The whole year is summer and spring weather and rain comes only during the winter.
I love simple life with surroundig nature hugging us. We try to live as ecological and green, as possible.
I just feel good here. Love my family, love my friends, love my life.
Howgh 😀 back to work!
@hajanka yep now is the time. im going too
goood nite everybody