Many, many years ago, when I was a senior in high school (and it is truly many, many years ago), my AP English teacher assigned us a daily diary. Every day we were expected to write something in our diaries and she would periodically collect them. Now, this was a lot of work for her [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Pizza cookies
Luigi, like most toddlers, likes to snack throughout the day. He eats only a little at a time, but he eats often, which is actually quite challenging since I want him to eat healthy things. Most snack-type foods don’t even qualify remotely as “healthy”, so what’s a mom to do? Luigi’s favorite all-time food is [...]
Happy Birthday expatwomen.com – 3 years of outstanding content
Today marks the third anniversary of expatwomen.com – an outstanding resource for women living abroad and those preparing to move or considering moving abroad. In their words… ExpatWomen.com is a comprehensive, global website helping women living overseas. The site displays 1,000+ quality content pages, over 1,000 expat women blogs, 200+ readers’ stories, invaluable country resource [...]
Winning Winnie
The day before La Befana was certainly an interesting day for us. After all, it was the day our newest little piggies were born. But we also had other news on that day and some good fortune came our way. La Befana, for those who don’t know, is another day of gift-giving in Italy for [...]
Twins
Every little boy should have a playmate, right? That’s the way we looked at it anyway. But, living on the 4th floor (with no elevator), a dog was out of the question. I didn’t want to get a cat either that could never go outside. So, when O’s niece mentioned that someone had given her [...]
