Arrivederci Italia

Wow, what a ride it’s been!
Two years in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to. And tomorrow this phase in our lives is coming to an end.
It’s been awesome, awful, interesting, annoying, mind-blowing, mind-numbing, fun, monotonous – but mostly it’s been an adventure. It is over too quickly and not quickly enough. [...]

Complete randomness

It feels like time rushes by me at warp speed and before I blink another day has gone by.  So instead of  sitting down (for a really, really long time) and trying to figure out a topic for  a blog post among all the things that has been going on in our lives these past [...]

Home and back

We’re back from a longish stay in Sweden at my parents’ summer cabin. What a fun time we had! We spent hours each day outdoors, even on days when the weather wasn’t super great. My parents are elderly and not as healthy anymore, so we ended up helping them with the yard work. They had [...]

Night time terror

Well, I have a new experience of terror: waking up in the middle of the night to my home shaking violently and my child crying next to me, clawing at the wall for support, asking me if the house is falling down. No three year old should have to wonder that.
Earthquakes. Gods, they’re scary.
L’Aquila (in [...]

More visitors!

Two days after my Mom had to return home, a couple of friends of ours from Geneva came for a visit. I haven’t seen them in three years and it was lovely to have them stay with us, to catch up, reconnect. In the 4 days they were here we showed them Grottaferrata (as luck [...]