Holy Cow. To say the last few weeks have been busy for us might be the understatement of the year. Both of us were slammed with stuff to ...
Updates
Hello? Remember us? Is anyone still out there? The hubby told me if I didn't post again soon I would lose my "following"....
Nineteen...
...days until we're back in the States! Things I'm looking forward to: seeing my family driving wrapping presents Ralph'...
Buon Natale
This place knows how to do Christmas. A few days ago, little tiny buildings started showing up on the sidewalks around our home. A...
Turkey time
Whew. We're just waking up from our turkey comas. Thanksgiving was a big hit. We ended up having 12 people in all, and enough...
Food Prep
When we decided to have Thanksgiving at our house, John Ralph told me I needed to factor in "crying time" to my schedule becaus...
Thanksgiving Feast
John Ralph and I are hosting our first annual Thanksgiving Feast in our home on Thursday. We spent all weekend cleaning and I think we'...
More from Poland
While in Poland, we visited the Auschwitz I, and Auschwitz - Birkenau concentration and death camps. Over 1.1 million people lost their ...
Krakow
I really loved Poland. The flight over was really beautiful because we flew over some big snowy mountains. A lot of Polish people speak E...
Veterans Day Weekend
We're ending this workweek with a trip to Krakow, Poland. John Ralph and I are flying out of Milan tomorrow morning to meet a few frie...
Tut tut, looks like rain
You know how in the movies a person will be standing on the side of the road and a car will drive by and splash the person with water? T...
Heart Warior
John Ralph's 5 month old cousin, Madison, is having open heart surgery today. She has a Complex Congenital Heart Defect, or as we like...
Updates
While I feel like we've hit the ground running every morning, there hasn't been too much to blog about lately. We've both been...
Cravings?
John Ralph and I fixed separate suppers tonight. His was a chicken breast topped with shredded cheese, sweet pickle relish, and BBQ sauce...
Blessed
I don't say it enough, but I have an amazing family. When John Ralph and I got married, the size of my amazing family doubled. We are...
Home again , home again, jiggity jog
John Ralph is home! He got in early yesterday morning (around 0430) and I couldn't be any happier. We had such a great day yesterday ...
We have a couch...
...Oh, buddy, do we have a couch. I spent the better part of 6 hours today following an Indian man around the city looking for his truck, ...
I probably deserved a princess band aid
Things have been really busy here, but not exactly interesting. You know how sometimes you can run around doing things all day long, but a...
A city after my own heart
Vicenza is having a chocolate festival all weekend long. One of the perks of living downtown is that I only have to walk about 50 yards to...
Spooktacular
This afternoon I found myself with a little extra time on my hands, so I decided to start doing a little redecorating. Yesterday, I stop...
Radiators
I may have mentioned this earlier, but there is some silly law in Italy that you can't turn your heat on before a certain date in Octob...
She works hard for the money
I got a phone call on Tuesday letting me know I was hired to work in the homework lab, an afterschool program with Child and Youth Services...
Ask and you shall receive
I have been praying that I would get the courage and have an opportunity to really get out and be immersed in the Italian culture... ...w...
Goblins and Ghouls
Well, I think it's safe to say that after a few Skype dates with Scootie and Seeber (sister and niece) and phone call each from my two ...
Challenges
The last few days have been a little tough. I was wondering when it was going to actually sink in that I'm living in another country,...
Fall
The hubby left this morning and is going to be out of the country for the next few weeks for work (boo!), so I'm on my own for a while....
Eat more chicken?
John Ralph and I enjoy entertaining (for those of you worrying that you haven't gotten your Christmas Party 2011 invite, rest easy, J...
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