a day in the life of a latvian mom

The weekend was supposed to be lovely… and to be fair, it really was — right up until 2am on Sunday morning.

That’s when everything went downhill.

I got sick. Properly sick. The kind where you spend the entire night running back and forth to the toilet. And not even in the comfort of your own home — no, I was at a friend’s house, 200 km away, sharing one bathroom with ten people. At one point, around 5am, I was desperate enough to actually ask the owner to let me use the WC immediately. No pride left at that stage… and it went all downhill pretty fast.

Food poisoning. Absolutely terrible. I slept maybe 20 minutes the whole night and following day — if you can even call that sleep. And honestly, I still don’t feel quite right.

But enough about that.

Today I took a day off work because my body clearly wasn’t ready for anything serious yet. The trip home was terrible, but I did it! And instead of trying to push through or feel guilty, I decided to do something small… something hopeful.

I went outside and sowed a few seeds under glass — lettuce, spinach, rocket, dill, and radishes.

Here is the video from mid-March with everything that is growing inside the house now…

It felt like the tiniest step, but also the right one. Fresh air, quiet, a bit of soil, and the feeling that something is starting — even if I’m not at 100% yet.

Sometimes the weekend doesn’t go as planned. Sometimes it turns into survival mode. But even then, there can be a small win hiding at the end of it.

And today, for me, that was planting seeds.

Ilze