How to do everything: the experience of star moms

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

— Despite the fact that I have enough work andfamily concerns, went to study at the Ryazan State University named after Yesenin, the faculty of theology. I believe that if I perform my songs in front of an audience, I should put meaning into 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 guide them through life in the future. And in communicating with students of my art school, such knowledge is not superfluous. I myself became interested in the history and traditions of various religions in childhood.A photo: personal archive - I am a freshman, and so far everything is easy. It is necessary to study a whole pile of books, but I like to read. Therefore, now along with fiction I actively study the history of Orthodoxy and the catechism, I am 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 did not have a computer and access to the Internet. Therefore, all the free time spent in the Lenin Library. Now everything is much easier. You can learn in absentia. Teaching disciplines. I keep a diary, where I write down all the affairs for the day: rehearsals, performances, trips with children to the doctor. I get upset when something goes wrong. If there are not so many events, just keep them in my head. On the way to events in the car, I decide things: I am on the phone, I am in correspondence. True, collecting things from the evening, as my mother instructed me, did not teach myself. I do it in the morning. Like Masha, in a hurry, I run around. - Breakfast is always cook yourself. In the morning I gather my daughters and take them to school and kindergarten. This is already a tradition. Sometimes I cook for a family. Grandmothers, babysitters help with the children. We leave not on Saturday-Sunday, but on Monday-Tuesday. When the elder, Sasha, comes back from school, we all go together on the street. It doesn't matter if it's hot there or rain. My girls don't want extreme sports, it was their mother who was supposed to be a boy. They like quiet board games, walks with talk. And then we prepare homework together if we ask. With my maximalism, I would like, of course, to know everything and be able to. But with such a rhythm of life, much had to be abandoned. For example, from parachuting, which was previously fond of. Although it is a small loss. Rarely manages to go to the gym. I had to donate watching the movie. Just do not have the strength to see out the end of the film, I fall asleep. Stretching session for several times. But I sleep in any convenient circumstances. The touring life taught to doze in the cars, on the benches. Although insomnia often happens, I'm an impressionable person. Then write new songs. In general, somehow everything has time. The eyes are afraid, and the hands are doing. The main thing is not to give up, but to work and go forward.