Daniele and I did not hold out much longer after my last post: Daniele got a fever a Sunday night, and I got the other symptoms of this type of laryngitis on Monday. I seem to get sick a lot more often with two children, although at least I did not get a fever this […]
I blogged a few weeks ago about the end of an era for me, as I stopped going to the last of the cell groups that I was running 5 years ago. Today might go down in the history of the church as the beginning of a new era. After the service and the monthly […]
We came back this afternoon from our week at the ECM biennial conference in Spain. Every conference lately for me has been different, going by myself six years ago, on my honeymoon four years ago, then with a six month old baby, and this time with two small children. So this time there were less […]
The trip to Desenzano on Monday went well - it took us quite a few months to get it organised so that all the ECM missionaries in Italy could come, but in the end it was a good time together, even though with everyone having to travel to get there there was not a lot […]
Today Stefania had her birthday party with her friends of the same age. At least that was the idea, but two of them came down sick, and although one of the mothers did come (whom I have known for many years in both bands I have played in), only one almost two year old could […]
Today we give thanks for the first two years of Stefania’s life. Today we will celebrate in our extended family (since my mother and brother are still here), and on Sunday there will be a small party for some of her friends of the same age. Stefania has in fact been receiving gifts for the […]
This week Pinuccia and Daniele have been doing a baby massage course, which someone in the church has been running at Trento. Pinuccia had in fact got some personal lessons when Stefania was born, but the revision has been helpful, and in any case the course needed some mothers and babies to demonstrate the techniques […]
Daniele turned one week today - which also happens to be a public holiday, so we couldn’t take him to the pharmacy for the first of his weekly weighings as we are supposed to do. Tomorrow will be OK, when we will also get his birth registered. Daniele has adapted well to his new environment, […]
We got back at 11 o’clock last night, and all three of us are happy to be back in our home. It was a good week for getting to know what ECM wants to do, and to have some input in how it goes about it, and for Pinuccia to get to know better this […]
We are here now at the conference, after a couple of days of tourism and a day to find a place to log on to the wireless network here. Amongst other things, we managed to do a long work around the Westminster area the first afternoon, then the National Gallery and the British Museum on […]