a day in the life of a latvian mom

I was never a huge IKEA fan, but… it turns out I’m spending quite a lot of money there and even all of our holidays building their furniture.

My first real encounter with IKEA was last summer, when we decided to buy temporary bedroom furniture. It turned out to be easy to install and looked lovely. I really liked it!

I liked it so much that we decided to buy a temporary kitchen as well… for Christmas. The boxes were delivered on Christmas Eve. My brother’s family and my mom came over, and we spent the evening chatting and screwing all the furniture together and installing it. We did it!

On Valentine’s Day we spent the evening building one unit for the bathroom—to store towels—and another one for the living room to store candles. Yes, I now have a separate shelf unit just for candles and candle holders. How fancy is that? 🙂
I think I might need another one just for cutlery.

Jokes aside—guess what we’re doing this weekend?

You guessed it: more IKEA. This time we’re building beds for Linna and Nelle. The space is temporary—downstairs—because we haven’t started building the upstairs yet. But we wanted to get rid of the old mattresses and half-broken beds anyway. I’ll upcycle the materials later, but right now we need to create a “separate room” for Nelle. Teenager life!

It won’t actually be a room with walls, but an enclosed space made from furniture—wardrobes, sideboards, and shelves.

So wish us luck to finish it all before Monday.

Also, it’s one week of school break here in Latvia. And spring is on its way.

Ilze