On the 6th of January Carmelo actually celebrated his 40th birthday. Now that is quite some number, I thought. It's not that I think 40 is old and that I had some kind of problem with it (those who know me should know better ;) - but 40 has a sound, a certain impact. Don't you think ( Read more... )

Wow, almost a year has passed! I really didn't think it was that long. But 2013 kind of flew by altogether, it was gone so quickly! Full of crazy weather, with heavy snow starting in January and lasting right into April (on the 9th of April the last trace of snow melted in the backyard, I remember that date because we were all so fed up with it by ( Read more... )

This was easily the most relaxed birthday I had in years! It might have helped that I had done most of the cleaning and tidying in advance and wasn't left with much to do for the day. My dad took the girls to kindergarten in the morning and I stayed behind, settling down for a quiet second breakfast with Carmelo. After that I did a bit of cleaning ( Read more... )

The film “Casanova” by director Lasse Hallström I initially watched for the very simple reason of visual pleasure after I had seen a snippet of it on youtube (don’t ask me about the connection which led me there in the first place…) and fell for one of the supporting characters. Yet the film grabbed me and it is that very character that provides ( Read more... )

For the last 24 hours temperatures rose slightly above Zero and the snow melted slowly but steadily so I decided to go and have some more winter fun with the girls before it would all be gone ( Read more... )

You might think it a bit weird or maybe even useless to write an entry about TV shows but I watched them yesterday and there were a few things that crossed my mind I felt like sharing.

( Thoughts on TV... )

Christmas again! Christmas kind of jumped me from behind this year, the whole tuning in over the course of December didn't happen for some reason. Apart from having mulled wine with Kath (see the Prague entry below) and another one with my mum three days before the 24th, I didn't even go to the Christmas market this year. I also just started buying ( Read more... )

The day I had been waiting for for weeks had finally come last Friday- Kath came! A day of fun and coziness was planned before we'd go on a trip to Prague on Saturday to visit our mutual friend Nicola. And watch The Hobbit together ( Read more... )

This second Sunday in Advent really was a treat! We woke up to snow falling heavily, like a whitish veil was drawn before the world. The girls put on socks and woolen waistcoats over their pyjamas and went playing in their room for some time whilst Carmelo and me snuggled up and enjoyed the Sunday morning laziness. That's something I am always ( Read more... )

I was actually thinking about waiting until the 26th of December to make it a nice round year (and maybe I could have resumed writing that old entry with this year's Christmas and you wouldn't have noticed) but then Nadine tagged me to take part in kind of a blog tour. It goes like this: I tell you eleven things about me (no matter whether you ( Read more... )