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Tereza Matys

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Czech made. small town girl far from home. foreign for here, foreign for home. from misty Scotland to the land down under. continuously searching for a purpose in life. traveller, yogi, runner and above all a parent. always trying to steal time to read books and write. living by the sea but my heart is in the mountains. trying not to take shortcuts in mindful living, just because I can.

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Happy International Women’s day. Let’s embrace

Happy International Women’s day. Let’s embrace our feminine nature!

https://www.terezamatys.com/2023/03/08/girls-just-wanna-have-fun-and-equal-rights/

Look who made it out of yoga pants with this beaut

Look who made it out of yoga pants with this beautiful and completely impractical scarf bought in Paris once upon a time.

Thanks for the dramatic shot friends @caledonian_b

Thanks for the dramatic shot friends @caledonian_beautiful @ty_tanic_89

It feels like home. Scotland after almost 7 years

It feels like home.
Scotland after almost 7 years.

My kids had breakfast, I took 37 photos and one vi

My kids had breakfast, I took 37 photos and one video.

Calm before the storm. Lukas just left for a week

Calm before the storm. Lukas just left for a week and I will be keeping the two alive whilst simultaneously hoping the water in the well doesn’t run out, the weather stays awesome and the fire doesn’t die out. The two latter are going ok so far, but Seb had two falls already. He’s the type of a toddler that pushes its car to a place and than uses the wheel to stand on it as he climbs up. Fun.

If it’s not completely clear from my stories, we

If it’s not completely clear from my stories, we have decided to move to our cottage in the Czech countryside full time. Even though I held a survey here on Instagram and I got a lot of responses, we have decided to take none of the advice and moved into a non renovated cottage regardless of its difficulties. Despite having to take Josie out of the perfect kindy, despite being further away from the house that we are actually renovating at the moment and despite not having a proper water and a heating system. It’s actually perfect. To sound completely tacky, we followed our heart and it worked. The plan is still to renovate some day in the future. However for that we would have to move out and we do not want to do it now.
So we just do little by little to make it liveable in winter time. So far so good.
I’m just really happy that we didn’t go into another rental because the image of yet another temporary space felt like an absolute chore and unnecessary financial expense for not enough of a reward.
In fact, turns out, I am actually a garden person.

In addition to today’s blog, I would also like t

In addition to today’s blog, I would also like to point out that when a woman becomes a mother, she is still allowed to have conversations about politics, economics, equality or the environment.
After I had finished writing the blog, my neighbour came over for a coffee and she told me she struggled with motherhood as it’s the time of your life when you can’t really use your intellect. I disagree with that notion, especially when you realise you are shaping the next generation. I would actually say it’s even more important to have great conversations in front of your kids than ever before.
Priorities might change, but you are still you. Most importantly even if all you do is take care of your kids, talk about sleep routines and bake, you are still an equal human to everyone else.

I’m not replying, but I appreciate you reaching

I’m not replying, but I appreciate you reaching out. I’m thinking of you, but I am just preserving energy. I’m sorry that I am such a bad friend lately, but the truth is, I am not even there for myself. My heart hurts a lot, my roots are ripped out, but I haven’t found a new place to plant them yet. I keep telling myself to be grateful for my beautiful children, but it’s not working. Some days, it’s ok, the next day I find that depression is not linear. The sources that worked before are not available to me now. I have always been pretty honest with sharing life as it is so I want to stay authentic and say it as it is. Things are shit. I am trying, but not managing. I crumbled under pressure like a house of cards. Sorry I can’t talk right now, but I appreciate the love.
P.S. crying is ok

When you have a baby and think: right, this is wha

When you have a baby and think: right, this is what babies are like. Then you have another and realise that they are all born with their character. All the things I thought I knew went out the window. This boy is so demanding that if he were my first, he’d probably be my last. Every night though when he snuggles in like a little puppy, that’s my reward for the broken back from carrying him all day. Who knew I would find peace in motherhood second time around. For now 😁

I seriously don’t know what our family would do

I seriously don’t know what our family would do in the last few weeks without the help of our friends. We have had people packing, moving, taking stuff away, cooking, taking things to OP shops, housing us, letting us use their car, you name it. It would absolutely not be possible without this amazing community we have created.

Moving is always hard, moving with little kids is harder, moving continents and packing up the first ever family household of six years is another level.

To keep us on our toes, kids have gone through fevers, coughs to snotty noses.

Our first visit in Noosa was to Clandestino coffee as per tradition, but second to Noosa hospital. Feels like there’s not mamy hospitals we haven’t been to in QLD.

Everyone is fine now and we finally got some time to relax today.

Five day countdown.
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Happy International Women’s day. Let’s embrace

Happy International Women’s day. Let’s embrace our feminine nature!

https://www.terezamatys.com/2023/03/08/girls-just-wanna-have-fun-and-equal-rights/

Look who made it out of yoga pants with this beaut

Look who made it out of yoga pants with this beautiful and completely impractical scarf bought in Paris once upon a time.

Thanks for the dramatic shot friends @caledonian_b

Thanks for the dramatic shot friends @caledonian_beautiful @ty_tanic_89

It feels like home. Scotland after almost 7 years

It feels like home.
Scotland after almost 7 years.

My kids had breakfast, I took 37 photos and one vi

My kids had breakfast, I took 37 photos and one video.

Calm before the storm. Lukas just left for a week

Calm before the storm. Lukas just left for a week and I will be keeping the two alive whilst simultaneously hoping the water in the well doesn’t run out, the weather stays awesome and the fire doesn’t die out. The two latter are going ok so far, but Seb had two falls already. He’s the type of a toddler that pushes its car to a place and than uses the wheel to stand on it as he climbs up. Fun.

If it’s not completely clear from my stories, we

If it’s not completely clear from my stories, we have decided to move to our cottage in the Czech countryside full time. Even though I held a survey here on Instagram and I got a lot of responses, we have decided to take none of the advice and moved into a non renovated cottage regardless of its difficulties. Despite having to take Josie out of the perfect kindy, despite being further away from the house that we are actually renovating at the moment and despite not having a proper water and a heating system. It’s actually perfect. To sound completely tacky, we followed our heart and it worked. The plan is still to renovate some day in the future. However for that we would have to move out and we do not want to do it now.
So we just do little by little to make it liveable in winter time. So far so good.
I’m just really happy that we didn’t go into another rental because the image of yet another temporary space felt like an absolute chore and unnecessary financial expense for not enough of a reward.
In fact, turns out, I am actually a garden person.

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