How to do everything: the experience of star moms

Maksim, singer (daughters Alexandra, six years old, Maria year)

- Although I have enough work andfamily concerns, I went to study at the Yesenin Ryazan State University in the Faculty of Theology. I think if I speak to the audience with my songs, I should put meaning in them. And spiritual development is necessary for this. In addition, as a mother, I want to convey to my children the religious foundations that will continue to lead them through life. Yes, and in communicating with the students of my school of art, such knowledge is not superfluous. She herself became interested in the history and traditions of various religions in her childhood.Photo:personal archive— I am a freshman, and so far everything is easy. I need to study a whole bunch of books, but I love to read. Therefore, now, along with fiction, I am actively studying the history of Orthodoxy and the catechism, preparing for exams. Of course, after I put the kids to bed. When I got my first education, it was harder. Then I just moved to a one-room apartment in Moscow, which we rented for two with a friend. I didn't have a computer or internet access. Therefore, I spent all my free time in the Lenin Library. Everything is much easier now. You can study in absentia. Study disciplines. I keep a diary, where I write down all the things for the day: rehearsals, performances, trips with children to the doctor. I get upset when things don't go according to plan. If there are not many events, I just keep them in my head. On the way to events in the car, I solve matters: I talk on the phone, I correspond. True, she didn’t accustom herself to collect things in the evening, as my mother instructed. I do it in the morning. I run like Masha the bewildered in a hurry. - I always prepare breakfast myself. In the morning I collect my daughters and see them off to school and kindergarten. This is already a tradition. Sometimes I cook for my family. The grandmothers and the nanny help with the children. We have weekends not on Saturday-Sunday, but on Monday-Tuesday. When the eldest, Sasha, returns from school, we all go out into the street together. It doesn't matter if it's hot or raining. My girls do not want extreme, it was their mother who should have been born a boy. They like quiet board games, talking walks. And then together we prepare homework, if asked. With my maximalism, of course, I would like to know everything and be able to. But with such a rhythm of life, I had to give up a lot. For example, from parachuting, which I used to be fond of. Although this is a small loss. You rarely manage to go to the gym. I had to sacrifice watching a movie. I just do not have enough strength to sit until the end of the film, I fall asleep. I stretch the session several times. But I sleep under any convenient circumstances. Life on tour taught me to doze in cars, on benches. Although insomnia is common, I am an impressionable person. Then I write new songs. In general, I somehow manage to do everything. The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing. The main thing is not to give up, but to work and go forward.