* Track of the little sparkles *

Daily log of childcare, cooking, gardening, sewing, and so on.

2021-11-09

On the way to the school, we saw this big pot. The smell was bad, but I feel nostalgic. The ingredient of this pot is asphalt and they were melting it for roadwork. I smelled the same flavor when I was a child. Anyway, my 5y daughter watch…

2021-11-08

I sewed the elastic of my 5y daughter's pajama because it was completely stretched. It often occurs that the trouser is too big for her because she is too thin. And the elastic is also often stretched out because I use the dryer. Anyway, i…

2021-11-07

We hear the sounds of fireworks recently at night. Everyday...! We found the fireworks in the direction of a large park, so we thought there's a firework festival. ...But every night? We heard that the fireworks are launched by general peo…

2021-11-06

We are making autumn wreath with these picked up items. It's difficult to make the foundation circle with only follen items. How many times I wish if we had readymade one or have some ivy plants in our garden! Anyway, we are trying only fa…

2021-11-05

Still Halloween! Since some people carve the pumpkin on Halloween day, some Jack-o-Lanterns were born on 31st Oct. So there are still many pumpkins in this town in early Nov. We can still enjoy finding and watching them. My 2y daughter lov…

2021-11-04

This is a big mushroom which we found in a botanical garden. We often see the mushrooms in the UK, but don't touch them. I want the skill of distinguishing poison mushrooms for our safety and daughters' curiosity. But, but, it looks very t…

2021-11-03

We found this shop at Covent Garden. Since my daughters are addicted to collecting fallen leaves and so am I, this fallen leave accessory was very attractive for me. My 5y daughter and I choose our best leaves from here and bought. These w…

2021-11-02

This is a candy shop in the station London Victoria. The shop locates the center of the station, so it's very hard to avoid seeing from children. Our 5y daughter is not used to eating such kinds of snacks, but 2y daughter is eating such sn…

2021-11-01

Halloween decoration of the hotel which we stayed in London There were not so many Halloween decorations in the city as I had expected, but once we enter a shop or hotel, there were spirited decorations! From today, the city will be the mo…

2021-10-31

We went to the Hyde park yesterday. The weather forecast was rainy, but almost of the day was sunny. How lucky! We met many kind of birds like swan, goose, black birds, and so on. We enjoyed the bird watching and rowing the boat on the lak…

2021-10-30

We went to Canterbury yesterday. This is the cathedral of Canterbury. We had visited some cathedral before, but this one was special! Gorgeous, huge, beautiful, prestigious...!!! My 5y daughter enjoyed the quests which handed at the entran…

2021-10-29

We are in London now. We went to Kew garden and enjoyed the trees and fallen leaves Our daughters ran and jamped around. Playing in the nature is verry good for us️ There is held the Japanese garden exhibition now, but we didn't see becaus…

2021-10-28

She made this "moving spider" with her daddy. I found this craft recipe in the "scientific craft" book which I bought in the UK. This spider stops when stretch the string because of the frictional force, and when relax the string, this spi…

2021-10-27

Twin bananas! We made banana juice with them. That was delicious😋 I often see a baby eating a banana on the pushchair. It's very handy for snacks. Kids love bananas all over the world🍌 https://t.co/k0J55cHQgj 27 October 2021 14:06

2021-10-26

Yesterday was day 1 of the autumn holidays. My daughters' school and nursery are closed for a week. I took them to a short walk in the rain and found this imitation of a steam train The path is very safe and was near our apartment, so we b…