Little Italy 24

[BananaGio]

Ciao tutte!

Oh lovely menu Rosa, pass the recipe for the pork please!

Chocolate, I love Nigella's chocolate cloud cake here

Yes, it is nice and warm here too, not sure what the forecast is for the hols. Mind you, next year I will want to go to the UK, I can't believe it's been a yr already we haven't visited, and I miss it!

Will dig it out for you !!!! DD1 at home but minirosa thankfully goes today and Tues......... Uk this time ina month I will be there and I can't wait !!!

Yes please

I had forgot that you were going to the UK, how lovely. I have itchy feet, as I'd love to take the dc traveling somewhere new (Paris or Berlin etc), but we are stuck here Uffa.

Can I interrupt?
Can anyone tell me the names of some good bilingual websites, or sites where I can buy CDs of Italian nursery rhymes, or books, that sort of thing?
Thanks, ciao for now!

Try Amazon.it its not been going long but you might find something there.
Bilingual web sites I don't know but Disney has a site in Italian and another in English !

Thank you! I'll start there...

Just seen a ad on JimJam (TV) for Magic internet for children - interactive site or something .....SO you could have a look at that as well.

Venice is full get me out of here before I do something serious to a tourist like ram them with a buggy ......

Lol Rosa!

Madreinglese, I second Amazon.it and also suggest to have a look on www.deakids.it for games and suggestion of tv shows you might find in Italian (my children can't get enough of a serialization of Pippi Calzelunghe which was made in the early 1970s )

Buona Pasqua tutti...... DD1 has mal di pancia ....hmm minestrone di ieri e poi cioccolata presto sta mattina ????

Buona pasqua everyone. we have had stomach bugs this week - ds, dm and dp all had it. me and my dad have avoided so far....
Hope dd1 ok Rosa. And the pasquetta meal goes well- let me know the asparagus lasagne recipe you use, sounds lovely
off to make ragu. am sick of cooking riso in bianco, eggs and toast - the only thing eaten in our household the last few days!

Buona Pasqua!

Sorry to hear about bugs and maldipancia, it's awful.
We are in the countryside and the sun has finally made an appearance.

Also, buon 25 aprile for tomorrow, not sure I'll be able to go online then. Ciao!

Oh our mal di pancia vanished thankfully and she has eaten a rosat meal .....
Gio sorry about the D&V bugs they are just foul... If you can get the strong fermenti lattici for the adults they really help to get you back on track - The pwders that you add with water.
The asparagus lasagne I am making it up !!! Going to saute the asparagus with a bit of onion . and chopped pancetta ( smoked). Then mixing with bechamel and daddi di smoked ham and layering.
Oh 25 Aprile ...Good I need a few roses here !!!
Have fun in the countryside and have a good picnic ...I do wish we had gone with the BBQ griligiata...... Never mind next time !

Ah goo Rosa.

Not having a fantastic day, I am a bit pissed off with part of the family, tis a long story though and I don't have the energy to discuss it really, as I am feeling very putdown.

good

sorry to hear that Franca, let off steam if you need to here.
Bloody raining here. Not happy! Feel like have wasted loads of time when my parents are over with illness and not ready for them to go back this week

Oh Franca sorry you have not had a good day - hope toay is better. My lasagne was yummy .. I actually cooked the asparagus first and then put in in the dish with sauce and then when I had layered it all before the lasy topping of bechamel I poked the layes with a squewer and poured some of teh asparagus water in to help cook.
The pork was pork fillet rolled in curry powder and cooked in the oven in melted butter ( basted regularly ) and the mustard sauce was yum.... We have all eaten too much and I would like t o go for a run ...But I don't like running !!!!!

Mmmmm sounds delicious Rosa!

Thanks girls, well, tis a long story... basically there is a relative of dh whom we are very close to, who is always having a go at me in a very passive aggressive way, and I really can't cope anymore. Dh isn't at all a bit supportive, and at times I really feel like I want to run 1000 miles away.

Gio, yes, how sad that your parents are leaving and you didn't manage to do the things you had planned. It's hard.

I had a much better day yesterday anyway, as we saw friends we hadn't seen for a while and their children are lovely, which is always

Dh stuffed up the computer and I can't access just about anything ... I am so cross as I am now behind with everything and parents are coming on Mon and I have anticipated my English class...grrrrr
Franca can Dh not see / hear what this relative is like ? I get very uptight about my ILs as you know but I just have to ride with it at times. I have put my foot down about dd going to Nonnas too much as Nonna doesn't smoke in front of her but Dd comes hoem smelling like an ashtray ...I want Dh to give her articles on passive smoking but he just shrugs his shoulders.
Gio sorry it hasn't been 100% fun with your parents with illness etc Hope the last few days were better.

Grrrr that's annoying Rosa.

No, dh doesn't see it. I suppose people could argue that he is always lost in his own world, but you know what, I am fed up. Actually, not fed up, really depressed by the fact that I am the fucking emotional target of the whole family (btw, she always has a go at sil too, but bil put his foot down).

Sorry for the rant, but I am really really annoyed

Can your BIl not put his foot down for you as well ??? Or get cross with your Dh and say you refuse to see this relation again until it stops.... It is obviously upsetting you so I would keep going on at him ...... Lost my muffin receipe and need to use up some chocolate.....

Ah Franca that sounds crap. I would be tempted to fly off the handle with this person, it might clear the air a bit.
Sorry you've all been sick Gio.
We went to Toscana for Easter, it was nice even though I had a really bad cold, now sinusite, I am still trying to recover. Tomorrow I've got my sister coming, we might go to the beach briefly tomorrow as the rest of the weekend looks awful, weather wise.

Yes, my only problem is that I am not good at answering back/fighting my own corner etc, I just storm off in a strop looking like a teenager... uffa!

Hello Sputnik, sorry about your sinusite (awful). But Toscana... awww how lovely

Btw, dh has just come back from the UK with a Royal Wedding mug and a copy of the guardian and grazia. I am slightly less pissed off at him.

On the other hand, I have dd who is being a miserable cow, and I am really starting to loose the plot. Aiuto!

If you want a moan about 6-7 yo DDs I will join in!
You first...

Oh Sputnik, I don't know, she is weird. Not stroppy or anything like it, but she looks very unhappy and goes through days when she eats very little, even her brother notices and worries.

I think many children find it difficult to adapt to the first year of elementare, and she is always wants to do extremely well, I think she is a bit stressed out, and the way she is showing it is eating very little, instead of tantrumming. And this is worrying me and I don't know what to do.

What about yours?

Ah mine is stroppy!
But also goes through phases of saying things like "I don't like myself". I think she's looking for a reaction tbh.
Yours sounds more serious, I would worry too. Is there something maybe she's not telling you about that's bothering her? (ok, silly question). I think the best you can do is try and make her feel secure and loved, which I'm sure you're doing. Hope she perks up soon.