The most magical time of the year is approaching. Boys and girls are looking forward to the new year holidays. Miracles flow through the air, gathering in fairy tales. The Mom Blogs community has invited a magical guest to the Mom of the Week column. Sit back and immerse yourself in the holiday with storyteller Maria Shkurina, author of the blogs "Mother's tales"and" the Greek's Wife."
Blogs Mom (Olga and Julia): Mary, Hello! How did you end up writing fairy tales? Through a fairy tale, a person reveals his inner world. As a fairy tale helps you personally? Is it possible to connect the writing of fairy tales with the mission of life?
Maria: Hello! Thank you, Mom Blogs that asked me to you at the light! I will be happy to answer your questions.
How come I started writing fairy tales? The answer is simple-I became a mother. Almost from the first days after the birth of Sofia, I dreamed of how I would tell her stories when she grows up a little. I remember my mother gave me a collection of therapeutic fairy tales, I leafed through it and said to myself: "Yes, I can do it myself!". And was able! I'm sure it's no worse, though it may seem immodest.
The decision to write fairy tales appeared almost simultaneously with the desire to blog. It was somehow inseparable from each other. I tried it, I liked it, the first readers appeared and I realized that I was moving in the right direction. To be honest, before starting to write the tales I poked it in one genre, then another, trying to find her: I really wanted to write (just itched all inside), I'm tired of being just a mom and housewife, I had to fill a gaping void in the soul. When I wrote my first blog story, it was like someone turned on a light in my head. I knew I'd found myself. Really like wings grew behind my back, which I now treat.
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Oh, I broke up! There was a continuation of the question. Pro the, as a fairy tale me personally helps. I understand that this is not about raising children, with this and all clear and said more than once. You mean me as a person, right? A fairy tale brings me out of a state of stress, fatigue, calms me, helps to achieve harmony with myself and the world around me. Take the story away from me, I can't live. Not physically, of course, but emotionally.
To be honest, now it is not easy for me, because there is practically no time when I am alone, when I can sit down and write only for myself, only what comes to mind, and not what is necessary for a particular project, publishing house, blog. Sometimes there comes a time when I just can't do it anymore, I think I'll explode if I'm not allowed to create freely. At such moments, I ask my husband to take the children and allow me to be alone with the computer for a while. It's good that a story is not necessarily to write, you can simply tell me what I'm doing. However, it is a pity that not all the stories told can then be recorded.
And about life mission, Yes, I thought about it many times. I've come to believe that someone should bring good fairy tales into the world. Why not me?! You could call it a mission. Ah, or purpose, one of, after all have human their several. I'm here to write and tell stories, to share them with other people. I want to do it, and I get great pleasure from it, especially when I see that it is necessary not only for me.
Olga and Julia: Where and from what sources do you draw inspiration?
Maria: from the most different. At first, of course, they were children: their interests, needs, desires, their dreams. Gradually something changed. If at first I came up with fairy tales for children in the first place, in them and drew inspiration, now I come up with fairy tales for myself, because otherwise I can not. I can be inspired by nature, meeting an interesting person, reading a book, and, of course, music. Now here listen to folk rock and I just get carried away, I want to write and write, so many images and ideas at once.
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Olga and Julia: what advice can you give to mothers who want to write fairy tales for their babies? Is there a technology of creation, beacons that are worth paying attention to?
Maria: Write. If they really want to write, they don't have to shelve it, they just open Word or take a piece of paper and Express what they want to say without fear of failing. We all storytellers started with this.
About technology, I could write a whole article, or even two – I really have some rules that I gradually worked out for myself, so in a nutshell I just will not work. Something I wrote in the blog, maybe we should return to this topic, if there is interest. By the way, at the beginning of this year my book was published in the publishing house Peter "I am a writer. The book of my stories." It is for children, but the advice that I give there, can be used by a mother who dreams of starting to write.
You know, I am deeply convinced that the best fairy tale for a child is the one that his mother came up with. So go for it! I know that in every mother lives a storyteller.
Olga and Julia: Motherhood is an incredible resource. Each child is a unique gift and experience. Masha, that has changed in worldview with birth of first child? And the other?
Maria: you know, girls, this is a very difficult question. Why? Yes, because the changes did not happen in one day, and you don't compare yourself yesterday with this because you don't know how and when to change. No, you can, of course, but this is a topic for deep introspection.
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I've been a mom for almost nine years, but I didn't become one just because I had a baby. I studied and changed every day, a little, one step at a time. Motherhood was coming into me, filling me, becoming my nature. Along with the acquisition of some practical skills and changed Outlook.
And it changed just because I grew up, met new people, lived different situations, I'm not only a mother, but also a wife, daughter, friend and not only. Actually, I think that after 30 many women are changing the view of the world (judging by myself and friends): finally beginning to understand something in this life and accept people as they are, without labels and without judging them. Well, to realize that everything that happens to us happens because it should happen, and the rest depends on us, on how we react, how we behave in a given situation.
Returning to the topic of the question: what I can say for sure about myself today: I became wiser, found harmony within myself, and what is most unexpected for me is my intuition. In 20 years I and to believe could not, that can be so feel the world and other people and to believe their domestic voice.
And yet, many mothers will confirm this, the sense of time has changed. It, on the one hand, has become more, judging by how much I can do in one day and I know that I can do even more. On the other hand, it flies very quickly, you do not have time to give everything that you would like to your children. But it's not terrible, it's natural, the main thing is not to blame yourself for it.
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Olga and Julia: they Say that a person has the native language in which he thinks. My daughter speaks three languages. What language is she thinking in? She pronounced the Humanities? In the article " is there education in Greece?", your second blog "Greek Wife", you thought about the problems in this area. What school did you choose for your daughter? Why? Was it possible to get as close as possible to the desired?
Maria: Sofia (and sandrik) thinks in the language she is currently speaking. This is natural for a bilingual, in our case a trilingual. On what thinks, when itself with a, not can say. She finds it difficult to answer when I ask. But I think that still Russian is the first, then there is English, and only then Greek. Yes, this is so, because she learns in English, and in Greek she speaks with her father, grandmother, writes and reads perfectly, but still there is more English in her life.
We went to an international school, here we went to kindergarten, and so far I am very happy. It seems to me that in the Greek school she would feel at ease, because in her attitude she is not Greek. As strange as it may sound, but it is not peculiar to those traits and demeanor, which is the Greek girls of her age.
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It seems to me that it is not even in the way I bring her up, but in what is already inherent in nature. Here at our school, we all have different kids, and it's okay to be different. And Yes, she's a humanitarian. She writes well, loves to read, she has a rich imagination, but with the math is not so smooth, and with the organization, it is constantly in the clouds. The last, truth, I can understand, itself such a. In General, Sofia is, of course, a separate conversation, she is very interesting, but not an easy person. Being her mother is a great happiness, but also a great responsibility, and constant work on yourself.
Olga and Julia: Tell us about your work in the library of the international school. What's interesting? Are there any peculiarities?
Maria: I don't know What to tell you. I'm a librarian, not a fireman or an archaeologist. 😉 It is a quiet job, when one day is like another, except for the beginning and end of the school year. I like what I do. It's a wonderful place to be surrounded by books, it's my world, but I confess that if I could not work, I would prefer to write while at home.
And especially, of course, there is, if to compare with library in Russian or even Greek school. First of all, I'm almost never alone: there are always high school students in the library, who are engaged (well, or pretend). We have a large library, especially for our small school, and it pleases. Besides, we all speak English, of course. For me there is another big plus: it is very convenient to work where your children study. Truth I try to put on a minimum to intervene in their a school life.