It’s such a beautiful day today in Florence. The morning cake and cappuccino under the morning sun was dreamy. I am not even going to mention the extra hour spent in bed watching cartoons. Ups, I already did. 🙂 After spending two hours in the garden, looking for ladybugs and making flower bracelets with Ephia, everything is calm now. The cat is talking in its sleep, my daughter is having...
Great coffee in the morning at our favorite pastry shop with a brioche in our hands. Being lazy in front of a nice animation, preferably with penguins or cats, then after a nice lunch, fun, games and rolling in bed. That’s how most of our Sundays look like and that’s exactly how this Sunday looks like. The moody weather doesn’t help me much with my plans of taking a nice stroll...
Saturday morning. We start with a Cambridge test for my kids. Everyone gets a sticker, everyone is smiling. I’m too tired to play, I’m to tired to teach, but I go on not thinking, not breathing my exhaustion. Friday nights know me so well. They are meant to be so that they can torture me to death. I always play it safe. I do my work fast, as much as I can during the day and go to bed...
After a whole week of running around, I decided to skip all the usual Sunday routine and plan something more fun for the three of us to do. So, when the cocka-doodle-doo sang from the other room, I jumped out of bed and brought her into our room for morning cuddles. Ephia usually doesn’t like any changes that get in the way of her routine, but who doesn’t love morning cuddles in the...
Sunday again. Woke up feeling tired and moody. Kept mumbling about not being able to bury under the covers until noon like I used to. As usual, I shook all that off from my thoughts and went into Ephia’s room smiling. I had to keep a promise I made to her for today. All dressed up and with smiles on our faces, we arrived in Scandicci where there was a birthday party going on. Ephia was in...
This has been such an amazing weekend. I love it when I can combine work with fun and at the end of that day I can just sight and smile in the same time. Saturday started a little slow, teaching and trying to stay awake in between classes. It’s a good thing my main teaching method includes lots of fun and games, otherwise the classical way would make me yawn and fall asleep faster then the...
A while back, I mentioned the fact that I am a “Friends” addict (the American sitcom). It seems that I never watch the show just for fun, but whenever I feel things are falling apart around me and I need to place a wall between me and reality for a couple of hours, every day. Should I be worried that this year I have watched the whole series three times up until now? Anyway, because I...
As you can see my blog’s theme sucks right now and we are working really hard to fix it (better said D is working really hard, I am just panicking around him and approving new themes ). I stopped believing that this year sucks, even if it was probably the most horrible year up until now and even if I am changing my mind a lot regarding my perspective about it. I have all these maybes that I...
I think my daughter is reading my blog behind my back. Yesterday I was talking about my lonely mornings and how I would wish to have breakfast with her and DÂ sometimes and today she woke up early and automatically granted my wish. Oh, the joy! It was even more wonderful than I imagined it, her talking to me and explaining perhaps the dreams she had over night and me looking at her nodding...
Oh, it’s that day of the week again; the day when everything stops in the morning and we just enjoy our company whispering to each other that it’s Sunday. We take Ephia in our bed for another half an hour of cuddling and after a quick breakfast we all go to the best pastry shop to get coffee and cake. I think Ephia loves and recognizes Sundays because of this little ritual we have...
