For an entire month my family and I lived, traveled and ate our way through Italy. We picked herbs from our garden, painted watercolors during the hot afternoons, swam in the pristine lake, ate endless amounts of fresh pasta and gelato, and drove all over the country in a quest to open up our daughters’ [...]
Posts Tagged ‘summer in italy’
Day Two – Tuscania and the day my husband was almost impaled
Posted in Italy, Travel, tagged gelato, Italy, jetlag, summer in italy, travel with kids, Tuscania on July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I thought nothing could be a better sign of great things ahead than my daughters sleeping 12 1/2 hours our first night here. Still jet-lagged and starving we stumbled down to breakfast. I put on a pot of hot water since tea is my caffeine source of choice, even here in the land of endless [...]
Living La Dolce Vita
Posted in Italy, nyc moms post, Travel, tagged dolce vita, family travel, Italy, lay offs, parenting, recession, summer in italy, traveling with kids, twins, unemployment on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Three months ago while I was in the middle of preparing dinner my husband called from work and told me that he had been laid off. You’d think in this economy I wouldn’t have been surprised, but the mass lay offs at his company had come in January and he had survived, so come April, [...]












