Pizza

Home Made pizza. 

Almond and carrot cake

Today’s lunch

Home made pizza and parmigiana di melanzane.

A traditional bank holiday in Italy today: la Befana.

In Italy, la Befana is traditionally an old woman (a kind of a good witch) who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on Epiphany Eve (the night of January 5) in a similar way to St Nicholas.

According to a tradition la Befana visits all italian kids on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany’s night to fill their socks with candies and little gifts if they were good, or a lump of coal or dark candy if they were badly behaving. Traditionally, all Italian children may expect to find a lump of “coal” in their stockings (actually rock candy made black with caramel coloring), as every child has been at least occasionally bad during the year.

It’s just another nice occassion to pamper our kids one more time.

20 movies about parenting to watch.

• Mrs Doubtfire

• Parenthood

• Father of the bride

• Life as we know it

• The kids are all right

• Kramer vs Kramer

• Cheaper by the dozen

• Look who’s talking

• Little Fockers

• She’s having a baby

• Knocked up

• The nanny diaries

• Nine months

• Yours, mine and ours

• The Help

• What to Expect When You’re Expecting

• Junior

• The back-up plan

• Labor Pains

• Juno

What did I learn from the past year?

This is the question someone asked me today. I guess the answer is “only count on yourself” along with “Verba volant, scripta manent”.
It’s that simple!

New year’s resolutions

Here is the list of my resolutions:

– became fit, exercise regularly

– take care about my health: visit a dentist, take vitamins,

– take care about my image: hairdresser and have my nails done

– job! job! job! It must work!

– learn java/coding
The party is over. Let’s get back to the work!

Personal achievements and failures, 2016 summary.

Past year have been tough on me. Many things happened and much more didn’t. It was a real tour de force. Despite hard times I have managed to “survive” quite well during this period. I had some personal satisfaction as well as some displeasures.

5 big achievements:

– do not rush so much, not any more (thanks to nursery! Yay!)

– happy kid

– developed more patience and self-control

– maintained positive mindset

– learned new programming for websites

5 big failures:

– lack of job

– neglected my health

– did not care of myself (beauty and physical form)

– not trying, not pushing enough

– inable to silence a fierce inner critic

For the upcoming year I am looking to achieve more tomorrow than I did today and I am striving to improve myself all the time.

Happy 2017!

photo by Kazuend

Merry Christmas

Today is also my son’s second birthday. Happy Birthday sweetheart.

Family reunion

In these days we are having a family reunion so it’s quite busy for me.