Back to the routine
I’ve completed my first week of normal activities now, with two Bible studies and a small group coordination meeting. I should be out tonight for band practice as well, but we will instead go out together as a family to celebrate – there is a birthday today! Next Monday the small group that Pinuccia attends restarts, so then we will have our normal full weeks. In the meantime this Sunday afternoon there will be our second church service at Rovereto, which will also try to bring together some of the people that live in the area but who do not come to the Bible studies during the week.
Stefania is coping well with the extra hours at school. She even doesn’t mind being woken up as she knows it is to go to school. I don’t know if this enthusiasm will last another 15 years; we shall see. Next week she will have another couple of hours each day, so it will be from before 9am to after 1pm. This means that she will be eating at school with the other children. It will be interesting to see how much she actually eats in such an environment. We instead will have our first taste of the “empty nest” syndrome. It will seem so quiet at lunch time for us without her.