I usually try to talk myself into seeing things in a more positive light when something doesn’t go my way. I don’t always succeed, but I put the effort in most areas of my life, except for one: my in-laws, and particularly my mother-in-law. I can face long trips with my five little kids in [...]
I had never heard of home schooling before moving to the United States. In Italy, where I was born and raised, there is no such right, the state decides how, where and what children need to learn and that’s it. School programs are the same for the whole country, there isn’t a lot of room [...]
Children ask all sorts of embarrassing questions - my kids seem to do this all the time.
This week-end, I had a lot of explaining to do when we visited New Orleans. I went with my five children and my teen-age baby sitter – naturally hubby still deployed. We thought that it would be fun to [...]
Our son Matteo, whom we adopted from Ethiopia about a year and a half ago, has had numerous health problems since arriving to the United States.
Matteo had been abandoned by the side of a road, so the orphanage he came from didn’t have any background information, which can be common with international adoptions, [...]
So I apparently have fallen sick after fighting this “thing” off for a while. My children have been very ill but up to this point I thought I made it until two days ago when I woke up and felt like someone had placed a ball in my chest.
My cough was horrible and then the [...]
There is nothing more enjoyable or tasty than a nice Starbucks drink …especially if you had a tough day or are stressed out from the week. I love to get Starbucks even in the car with my five crying children - or if my car stopped in the middle of the road.
Fate had it that [...]
I hate missing a call from my husband when he is deployed - let’s see, most of the last two years. Lately I had been feeling down and out of sorts and looked forward to conversations with hubby. I usually don’t worry but sometimes if I don’t hear from for a long stretch of time [...]
I don’t usually follow the whole Spears saga, the photographs, and drama but sometimes it’s very hard to get away from it because it’s everywhere.
When she had a breakdown (I think a couple of weeks ago) it was reported as breaking news all over major networks, CNN, MSNBC, FOX. I watched as dozens of photographers [...]
I guess election coverage has substituted the lack of shows or new episodes effected by the writers’ strike. I feel I should care a lot about the strike but I cannot feel that sympathetic for a group of people who are partially privileged (writers who get paid decent money for their craft) and are [...]
According to many, unless women are thin or have giant breasts and tiny tiny bodies and of course completely firm buns - we are not looking great. In fact we hope to become some sort of human Barbie and become very upset when our own body types are not the same as a 12 [...]
