Good morning friends and happy new week!

How was your weekend? Ours was busy but very fun: on Saturday we had an event at Aurora`s school: pancake breakfast and book fair, she was so excited, she was so proud to show us and her brothers her school, the cafeteria and all the places around (even though we already saw it many times!). On Sunday we had an Easter brunch at our house with the kids` friends. We had 6 girls from Aurora`s class and three boys from Alessandro and Leonardo`s daycare. As soon as I started organizing the brunch for Aurora and her friends and started talking about it,  Leonardo told me that he wanted to have his friends too (and I thought he was right), so we extended the party to the little ones.

Good morning my friends and happy Tuesday!

I want to apologize for not having a post ready last Friday, but I planned to write it and then the snowstorm came, the kids were home for two days, the following day I had a lot of work, so I wasn`t able to set aside some time to write. But today I want to talk to you about Easter baskets! I love this tradition especially because in Italy we don`t do Easter baskets, neither do we have the Easter bunny. What happens is that we buy big chocolate eggs for all the kids in the family and we open them on Easter morning. Each egg has a little toy surprise inside, so the fun thing is to collect as many chocolate eggs as possible and then open them hoping that there will be a fun toy to play with! I remember as a kid receiving eggs from my grandparents and aunts and uncles, eating a lot of chocolate, but having so much chocolate left overs that my mom didn`t even know what to do with them! She usually ended up making chocolate cakes or chocolate budino (something like a pudding).

Good morning friends and happy beginning of a new week!

I hope this one will not be too tough, but a snow storm is coming our way and a lot of snow is predicted: this is New England: snow until April and then we will be able to get our Spring in May…

Since it looks like the snow days with schools closed will last for a little longer, I thought about writing a post about some tips to make snow days go by a little faster with little ones. When a storm hits us, the school are closed, the weather is not really nice outside, it is not possible to drive around and do fun things, so the only possibility is to stay at home and play. Here are some hacks to keep mom`s sanity.

Good morning friends and happy Friday!

This was another long week for me: doctor`s appointments, gloomy days and a snow storm on Wednesday night that left us with no cable and internet, at least we have power though and we feel very lucky! I think we have had enough for these 5 days! I am looking forward to the weekend and to some fun activities with the kids!

Good morning friends, how are you? I hope you had a nice weekend. We did, we had some birthday parties to attend and we watched the Oscars on Sunday night, it is so nice to sit down on the couch sometimes!! This week started with a sick kid at home (who is feeling better now) and will progress with a snow storm on Wednesday evening, we will see how it goes, hopefully it will not be too bad, but they are already expecting a lot of snow (I always hope that they are mistaken!).