We decided to see how Stefania goes eating by herself, and she seemed to go pretty well, even though the hands were a more popular option than the spoon and fork. Perhaps just as much ended up on the floor as in her mouth, although it seems that that was food that she was putting away for later when she crawled around.
At the moment there is the second half of a rarity: two nights off during the week (that is excluding Sundays). Usually the maximum is one, which I guard jealously to at least have some time with the family. But the way the church programs work out, every eight weeks I get both Thursday and Friday free. (Although occasionally I do get bonus nights, when a Bible study meeting is not held because of lack of people, a public holiday or other reasons.) I’ve taken advantage of these nights to get some non-deadlined computer work done, for example creating a search engine for Italian Evangelical web sites, looking into ways for people to insert the Italian Bible text on my site into their sites, and doing some work on the site of a friend involved in another ministry in Italy.