If you frequent any of the expat sites, you’ll find a lot of talk about how Italian women seem to always be cleaning their houses. And, it’s true. I know a few women who seem to spend all of their time doing just that. They clean their house from top to bottom and, when that’s [...]
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Hazy
Right now I happen to be working on a large translation project whose due date is quickly approaching. It’s not even a particularly difficult project, but it seems to be taking me double the normal time. Lately, my powers of concentration have severely diminished.
If it were spring I could understand. Such things often occur when [...]
Kitchen space
When I came to Italy I was determined to make the best of it. Of course, I was also very optimistic about the future too. Love does that to people, I guess.
Actually, it has been very refreshing living here. I find that the lifestyle is less materialistic. My life certainly is, anyway. I don’t own [...]
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 pages, interviews [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
Safety First
Like most moms who have a toddler, childproofing my house was a big priority for me.
Some of my closet doors required a special device, so I sprang for some that I found at Chicco. Needless to say, they were rather expensive.
They didn’t stop my “bull in the china shop” though. He was determined.
Yes, it [...]
An uninvited guest
Over the weekend an uninvited house guest came to stay with us…influenza. He arrived in the early morning hours on Saturday morning and hung around until Monday night. Of course, it was every parent’s nightmare, a holiday weekend and a child with a fever of 103.8.
We do have what is called the “Guardia [...]
Exhaustion
Luigi has been changing his nap time lately. Where he used to go down for his nap around 1:00, recently he has decided that 11-11:30 is best.
Of course, it took some getting used to. Now I put him down and let him eat when he wakes up.
If not, the result is this
Living in a cloud
The last few days it seemed as if we were living in a cloud – and I guess we were…..literally.
Despite the fact that all the weather forecasts said it was sunny, there was a perpetual fog surrounding us or below us. Above the fog the sky was blue and the sun was shining. Just enough [...]
