Category: LIFE

45/52

It’s week 45 and it’s only 4 weeks away from your 2nd birthday! We spent the week in Central Italy visiting your grandparents and as usual, time went by too quickly.

This is you in your grandad’s vegetable patch, apple tasting. 
This week you:

  • Asked to play with the dog all day long. It was your first thought in the morning and the last in the evening.
  • Had a temperature for two days and a candida infection, but you did brilliantly, except for one night where you woke up screaming several times and only felt asleep in mama’s arms watching some tv.
  • Visited the local playground and loved it. On top of playing with the seesaw, sling and slide you collected lots of leaves to carry around.
  • Went out almost everyday for a walk with your cousin’s bike. As soon as you were on it, you adjusted the mirrors and put the music on.
  • Got a new pair of shoes and still trying to figure out how to put them on.
  • Had a go at blowing bubbles. We ended up with no bubbles and a very soapy grass.
And from last week, I love this little red head from Ellieboo. Doesn’t she look like a top model in the back stage of a catwalk?

If you are curious about this project and want to know more, you can check Jody’s blog @ Che and Fidel.
All my previous posts can be found here.

44/52

It’s week 44 already! In a month time you’ll be turning two, and we are so not ready for this yet! Although I wonder if we ever will.
This is you with your papa walking around his hometown

This week you:

  • Loved singing all day long! not sure what tune it is, but it’s awesome.
  • Kept waking up in the early morning asking for milk. But after shsss-ing you, you went back to sleep. Hoorray!
  • Asked for Becca, your teacher, every single day. But when we asked you if you wanted to go to nursery you said no.
  • Had your afternoon nap around 2pm, as usual, on Thursday and missed the nursery’s halloween party.
  • Hugged and kissed your grandma at the airport and didn’t leaver alone, not even for a second. Even asked for her when you woke up during the night asking for water!

And from last week, I love Maile, the sleeping beauty from See You There. So calm and peaceful, there is nothing worth more than a visit to this blog!
If you are curious about this project and want to know more, you can check Jody’s blog @ Che and Fidel.
All my previous posts can be found here.

43/52

It’s week 43 and you are becoming funnier every day. It is amazing how many changes you go through every week. And the more you change, the more we like you.
Loving playing squirrels in the nursery ground and collecting acorns
This week you:
  • Added many new words to your vocabulary. But the most hilarious one is “uovo” (egg), as you make such a funny face when you say it, we want to kiss you all over.
  • Kept playing over and over with your puzzles. I think it’s time to get you new and more challenging ones.
  • Had a temperature on Friday and I had to pick you up from nursery before lunch. And although you weren’t feeling great you had so much fun playing with mama’s craft stash.
  • Had a playdate on Sunday and loved going around, chatting and playing with your little friends.
  • Adjusted to clock change instantly, and slept even more than ususal.
And from last week, I love the seasonal pictures of Rianna, from A.k.a Chymecindy. So much happiness in just being a kid and playing with simple things. It reminds me a lot of my little squirrel above!

If you are curious about this project and want to know more, you can check Jody’s blog @ Che and Fidel.
All my previous posts can be found here.

42/52

It’s week 42 and only 10 weeks to the end of the year! Thinking about Christmas already, and a certain someone turning two very soon.

This week you:
  • Spent two days with papa all alone, and had lots of fun.
  • Went to your nursery friend’s birthday, but was more interested looking at the older kids playing with guitars than playing with your peers.
  • Still going to bed easily in the evening, but your sleep has been a bit disturbed and we can’t figure out why.
  • Loved repeating every word we said. Your favourite has been “uovo” (egg).
  • Started throwing more tuntrums than usual. I guess you learned the trick already; you how to get want you want. We still haven’t learned how to deal with it!
And from last week, I love this little fitness lover from wendieland. She seems so very at ease with the move!

If you are curious about this project and want to know more, you can check Jody’s blog @ Che and Fidel.
All my previous posts can be found here.

Time

I keep making lists, afraid I will forget the millions of things that I want to do, the ideas that come to mind and that I physically don’t have the time to do straight away. I would need a day of at least 48 hours and enough energy to accomplish everything I want. Will I ever have enough spare time to play with ideas, try new things and just slow down? Probably not for the next foreseeable future. For what I know, I can only make the most of the very few hours a week when a spare moment just happens unexpectedly. And that, believe me, requires a lot of energy and concentration and determination. I always have to be prepared, spend no more than 5 minutes thinking about how much time I’m more likely to have and what’s the best way to use it.
As it stands, and if I’m lucky, my happy time consists of 3 lunch times a week, about 30 minutes each, 2 slots of about 2 hours over the weekend, during Olivia’s nap, and the evenings, when most of the time I’m too tired to do anything but watch TV or fall asleep on the couch. That would give me a maximum of 5.5 hours per week, excluding the evenings. Is this enough? I don’t think so. But that’s what’s available to me right now, and that’s what I have to work with. And it’s ok if my to-do list will keep growing and things will have to wait. I do get frustrated sometimes, but I’m managing my spare time to the best of my abilities and living hoping that this 5 hours per week will become 5 days per week one day.
Do you have enough time in your day to do your things? How are you managing your time? xxx